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Isaiah Wong scored 21 points, Kameron McGusty had 20 and 10th-seeded Miami shut down Auburn's power couple Jabari Smith and Walker Kessler for a 79-61 victory to reach its first Sweet 16 in six years.

Coach K and Duke are 3-2 in those games and 12-3 overall against Izzo and his Spartans. “I like the game," Izzo said. Or will the farewell tour for 75-year-old Coach K continue on to San Francisco, site of the West Region semifinals? Coach K's 98 NCAA Tournament wins are most in history, as are his 36 tournament appearances. Izzo's 54 tournament wins and eight Final Four appearances rank fifth all-time and his .707 tournament win percentage is third behind Krzyzewski and Kentucky's John Calipari.

The matchup between Hall of Fame coaches Mike Krzyzewski of Duke and Tom Izzo of Michigan State highlights the final day of the NCAA Tournament's opening weekend.

March Madness is finally part of the women’s NCAA Tournament vernacular and the first round has so far aptly fit that phrase.

Coach K and Duke are 3-2 in those games and 12-3 overall against Izzo and his Spartans. “I like the game," Izzo said. Or will the farewell tour for 75-year-old Coach K continue on to San Francisco, site of the West Region semifinals? Coach K's 98 NCAA Tournament wins are most in history, as are his 36 tournament appearances. Izzo's 54 tournament wins and eight Final Four appearances rank fifth all-time and his .707 tournament win percentage is third behind Krzyzewski and Kentucky's John Calipari.

The NCAA Tournament's South Carolina site for opening-round games is filled with postseason-tested coaches.

When Bruce Pearl was asked what Mike Krzyzewski means to college basketball at the NCAA Tournament, the Auburn coach likened Coach K to Dick Vitale.

Last season’s NCAA Tournament ultimately unfolded in familiar fashion.

Tyrece Radford scored 19 points and Quenton Jackson made five throws in the final minute as Texas A&M beat fourth-ranked Auburn 67-62 in the quarterfinals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament.

An unpredictable college basketball season took an unprecedented turn Saturday, when the top six and seven of the top 10 teams lost. Gonzaga, Arizona, Auburn, Purdue, Kansas and Kentucky all went down, marking the first time in AP poll era (1948–49) that the top six teams lost on the same day. 9 Texas Tech also lost, setting another record for most top-10 teams losing in one day. The pandemonium shouldn't have been much of a surprise the way this college basketball season has gone so far. ___More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

The madness arrived early this year.

Santiago Vescovi scored 14 points and Zakai Zeigler had 11 of his 13 points in the second half to lead No. 17 Tennessee to a 67-62 victory over No. 3 Auburn.

Tyree Appleby scored 20 of his 26 points in the second half, Colin Castleton added 19 and Florida rallied to beat No. 2 Auburn 63-62 to extend its home dominance in the series.

Gonzaga has reclaimed the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll.

Auburn is No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the third straight week.

Wendell Green Jr. made a tiebreaking layup with four seconds remaining and No. 1 Auburn got past Georgia 74-72, extending the nation’s longest winning streak to 19 games.

Auburn remains No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the second straight week.

Auburn remained No. 1 in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll for the second straight week, while Kentucky jumped into the top five for the first time in more than two years. Bruce Pearl's Tigers earned 49 of 61 first-place votes to extend the program's first stay at the top and stay comfortably ahead of Gonzaga, which earned the other 12 first-place votes. Auburn (20-1) has won 17 straight games since losing a double-overtime game to Connecticut in November.

Jabari Smith bounced back from a rough shooting night with 23 points and 12 rebounds and Walker Kessler scored 21 to lead No. 1 Auburn to an 86-68 victory over Oklahoma.

Auburn Mississippi Basketball Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl celebrates a win over Mississippi after an NCAA college basketball game in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruce Newman) (Bruce Newman)AUBURN, Ala. — (AP) — Auburn coach Bruce Pearl has agreed to a contract extension to remain on the Plains. Auburn didn't release any details of the new deal, which Pearl said “wasn't that hard” to agree on. “The family and I are going to be able to stay and be your basketball coach for a long, long time,” the coach said in the video. Auburn hired him in 2014 to take over a program that hadn't been to the NCAA Tournament since 2003.

Auburn coach Bruce Pearl has agreed to a contract extension to remain on the Plains.

Kentucky Auburn Basketball Auburn guard Allen Flanigan (22) reacts after a score during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) (Butch Dill)War Eagle is flying high over men's college basketball for the first time in history. A barely ranked afterthought to begin the season, Auburn climbed past Gonzaga to No. The Tigers (18-1, 15-0 SEC) spent most of the 1999-2000 season ranked in the top 10, including one week at No. 11 and were followed by Kentucky, Texas Tech, Villanova and Southern California, which bounced back from a loss to Oregon with wins over Colorado and Utah on the road. CONFERENCE WATCHThe Big Ten and Big East have five ranked teams apiece, followed by the SEC and Big 12 with four each.

Auburn has climbed past Gonzaga and into the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the first time ever.

War Eagle is flying high over men's college basketball for the first time in history. A barely ranked afterthought to begin the season, Auburn climbed past Gonzaga to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll released Monday. The Tigers beat Kentucky over the weekend for their 15th consecutive win, then scooped up 45 of 61 first-place votes to become the nation's top-ranked team for the first time since the poll began with the 1948-49 season.

Nebraska Auburn Basketball Nebraska guard C.J. (AP Photo/Hakim Wright Sr.) (Hakim Wright Sr.)ATLANTA — (AP) — Playing minus suspended coach Bruce Pearl, No. Auburn was placed on probation for four years for unethical conduct involving former associate head coach Chuck Person. Center Walker Kessler and guard Zep Jasper each had five steals and Auburn scored 30 points off 20 turnovers. Auburn held Nebraska (5-6) without a basket for a stretch of almost seven minutes in the first half.

Playing minus suspended coach Bruce Pearl, No. 18 Auburn made 16 steals and routed Nebraska 99-68.

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The report released by the infractions committee panel said Pearl “violated head coach responsibility rules because he did not adequately monitor the associate head coach and failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance. “Further, when the head coach became aware of potentially problematic situations involving the associate head coach, he failed to ask reasonable and pertinent questions. Tennessee had fired Pearl in 2011 after the NCAA charged him with unethical conduct and then additional violations surfaced. “The associate head coach violated the trust of his student-athletes and their families," the panel wrote in its decision. "For the last four years, Auburn has been proactive and cooperative with the NCAA enforcement staff and Committee on Infractions.

The NCAA has placed the Auburn men’s basketball program on four years probation for unethical conduct involving former associate head coach Chuck Person and imposed a two-game suspension on coach Bruce Pearl for failing to monitor his assistant and adequately promote compliance.

The NCAA has placed the Auburn men's basketball program on four years probation for unethical conduct involving former associate head coach Chuck Person and imposed a two-game suspension on coach Bruce Pearl for failing to monitor his assistant and adequately promote compliance. An NCAA Committee on Infractions panel issued its findings Friday but mostly accepted Auburn's self-imposed penalties in the case dating back to September 2017, when FBI agents arrested Person as part of a wide-ranging investigation into corruption in college basketball.

Baylor coach Scott Drew knew his sixth-ranked Bears might need time to blend a changed roster after losing four starters from a national-championship run.

22 Connecticut went back and forth at each other seemingly oblivious to pressure from a dwindling clock in an ever-lengthening game at the Battle 4 Atlantis. But the two combined for UConn’s first 14 points of the second overtime as UConn finally pushed ahead for good. “I definitely thought numerous times we could've had the game won," said R.J. Cole, who had 24 points for UConn. Auburn: This is the first trip here for the Tigers, who were coming off a 58-52 win at South Florida on Saturday. SMITH'S GROWTHSmith had 19 of his 22 after halftime for Auburn.

Tyler Polley scored a career-high 24 points and hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:58 left in the second overtime to help No. 22 UConn beat No. 19 Auburn 115-109 in Wednesday’s first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis.

This week's Battle 4 Atlantis men's college basketball tournament in the Bahamas headlines the list of offshore events returning to the sport amid the COVID-19 pandemic.