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Women's NCAA title game 2026: How UCLA won its first NCAA title

Forty-eight years ago, the UCLA women's basketball team won the AIAW national championship. On Sunday, the Bruins are finally national champions again. UCLA won its first NCAA title, beating South Carolina 79-51. After getting blown out in last year's Final Four, the Bruins went 37-1 in 2025-26 and closed the season on a 31-game winning streak. (ESPN)

UNC Transfer Jonathan Powell Commits to Pittsburgh Basketball

Jonathan Powell’s time in Chapel Hill is over. On Saturday, the sophomore wing became the first Tar Heel of the offseason to choose another school via the transfer portal, announcing his commitment to Pittsburgh, his agency confirmed to On3. The move comes five days after Powell’s agency initially confirmed his intention to enter the portal on Monday. (Inside Carolina)

National Championship game hits 7-year viewership high and record for TNT Sports

March Madness capped off 2026 with a multiyear viewership record. Monday’s National Championship game between the UConn Huskies and Michigan Wolverines averaged 18.3 million viewers across TNT, TBS, and truTV, marking the most-watched title game since Virginia’s win over Texas Tech in 2019 (19.63 million viewers on CBS). (Awful Announcing)

NBC Wants to Make NBA ‘Throwback’ Game Annual Event

NBC has been leaning into a “NEW-stalgia” programming strategy with the NBA that takes viewers back to the glory days of the 1990s when Michael Jordan’s dynastic Bulls won all six of their titles on the network’s air. We’ve seen everything from the dramatic game openings by Bob Costas and Marv Albert to the return of John Tesh’s “Roundball Rock” theme. (Front Office Sports)

Ailing Yaxel Lendeborg did his best, but it was Elliot Cadeau who pushed Michigan to the top

Michigan point guard Elliot Cadeau, the player who was presented the MOP trophy, was in the middle of that group hug, and he was bouncing with the knowledge that he’d overcome so many doubts about his potential to become a championship point guard, including his own. He scored 19 points, gaining a significant portion of that at the foul line. (Sporting News)

6 things to know about new Butler basketball coach Ronald Nored, former player on Final Four teams

Butler has hired former Bulldogs player Ronald Nored as its coach. The sparkplug point guard played on Butler's two Final Four teams before becoming a well-traveled coach, starting at Brownsburg High School and continuing mostly in pro basketball. Nored replaces Thad Matta, a Butler alum who coached the Bulldogs for five seasons in two stints. (Indianapolis Star)

Former UNC guard Lanie Grant commits to TCU

Eight days after announcing that she would enter the transfer portal, former North Carolina guard Lanie Grant has committed to TCU. She made the announcement Thursday, saying she was going, “Where the West begins.” Grant nearly entered the portal last offseason but changed her mind. She leaves UNC 4 1/2 years after she committed to the Tar Heels. (Tar Heel Tribune)

Michigan won because Dusty May understood better than anyone else how to build a monster portal team

It took Dusty May just two years as a high-major coach to crack the code on how to win it all by building through the portal. Nobody's done it better. May is only 49, and if he remains in college for the next decade-plus, there's a fair chance that his first national title run will not double as his last. This team's 37-3 record will stand tall and age beautifully. (CBS Sports)

NCAA proposing major changes to eligibility rules, including age limits

The NCAA is considering a change to its eligibility rules. According to the concept, athletes would have five years of eligibility from the time of their 19th birthday or their high school graduation, whichever is earliest. No waiver requests, redshirts, or exceptions permitted, except for a small group of outliers (those on maternity leave, military service, or religious missions). (Yahoo! Sports)

‘College GameDay’ crew gets into heated debate over state of college basketball

Fresh off his 17th Sweet 16 appearance as a head coach, Arkansas Razorbacks coach John Calipari was in Indianapolis for ESPN’s College GameDay show ahead of Saturday’s Final Four games. During the show, Calipari got into a heated debate with the other panelists, Rece Davis, Jay Williams, Jay Bilas, and Seth Greenberg, over the state of college basketball. (Awful Announcing)

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