Ncaa Basketball Tournament

STATISTICS ARKANSAS Player FG FT Reb Ast Pts Day .491 .750 5.3 2.6 19.3 Mayberry .515 .792 2.9 5.2 14.6 Howell .543 .760 5.4 1.9 13.8 Miller .643 .654 6.3 1.4 11.4 Huery .464 .802 3.0 2.5 10.1 Credit .571 .795 3.9 0.4 9.5 Bowers .390 .794 1.8 2.4 5.6 Hawkins .538 .733 1.8 0.9 4.0 Murry .407 .600 1.2 1.5 4.0 Marks .554 .444 2.4 0.2 3.9 Whitby .237 .875 0.4 0.7 1.4 Linn .250 .500 0.3 0.1 0.5 Arkansas .507 .733 34.6 19.1 95.9 Opp. .449 .706 37.4 15.3 79.3 3-Point Field Goals: 191-479, .

Kendall Marshall broke a bone in his right wrist during the University of North Carolina's victory over Creighton in the NCAA basketball tournament on Sunday, leaving the status of the Tar Heels' star point guard up in the air for Friday's Sweet 16 game against Ohio. "All we know right now is it's a fracture," Marshall said. "Luckily, it's my right hand. If it was my left hand, then we'd probably have some problems. But we'll take it day by day and figure it out. " The injury occurred when Marshall was knocked to the floor by Ethan Wragge with 10:56 remaining in the game.

The scrum of big-time sports may be adding to the pile soon. March Madness may become March Insanity. The NCAA is pondering adding to its 65-team men's basketball tournament, making it a 96-team field. It is locked into the current format only through this year's championship game. After that, it can re-negotiate its $6-billion contract with CBS. The 96-team field is a dumb idea, based on greed. So expect it to happen. If you give somebody more product, they have to pay more.

East Regional No. 8 Kansas State (21-10) vs. No. 9 Southern Mississippi (25-8) at Pittsburgh, 9:30 a.m. PDT, truTV: Neither team offers a great offense, so expect a lot of defense and physical play. Both teams do a good job forcing turnovers. Expect Southern Mississippi to focus on slowing Kansas State guard Rodney McGruder. If he is stymied, the Golden Eagles' chances get better. No. 4 Wisconsin (24-9) vs. No. 13 Montana (25-6) at Albuquerque, 11 a.m., TNT: Montana has won 20 of its last 21 games, but the Grizzlies need to shoot well from the outside to advance against Wisconsin.

Arnold Ferrin, chairman of the NCAA Division I men's basketball committee, will become both hero and villain today when his group announces who plays where and when in the $32.6 million extravaganza known as the NCAA basketball tournament. The tournament involving 64 elite teams begins March 17, ending 63 games and 18 days later in Kansas City's Kemper Arena with the 50th national championship game.

Remember those old movies in which a group of youngsters faces a financial calamity and Mickey Rooney or somebody says, "Hey, kids, let's put on a show?" Well, if Hollywood were making one of those today, Fred Savage would come up with a new solution: "Hey, kids, let's start a sports league. CBS will pay us a billion bucks."

Two coaches who know the way to the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16 will go head to head today. Arizona, coached by Lute Olson, and Alabama, led by Wimp Sanderson, will play in a second-round game at Long Beach Arena after the Loyola Marymount-Michigan game. Tipoff will be at about 4:30. Olson, whose team is seeded second in the West, has taken his Wildcats to the regional finals the last two years, reaching the Final Four in 1988. He also took Iowa to the Final Four in 1980.

He came to Queens, eager to make points with a little left-handed basketball player already being raved about as the hottest prospect to come out of New York City since Lew (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) Alcindor. So, as long as he was in the neighborhood, he made the acquaintance of one Giuseppe Liantonio, and made him an offer he couldn't refuse. "How'd you like to come work for me?" Bobby Cremins asked. "As what?" Liantonio asked back. "Student-manager."

We are asking you to predict the winners of each of the NCAA basketball tournament regionals today, and moving on to the East Regional. A quick breakdown before we get to the poll: Top four seeds: Syracuse (31-2), Ohio State (27-7), Florida State (24-9), Wisconsin (24-9). Upset specials: No. 12 Harvard over No. 5 Vanderbilt, No. 10 West Virginia over No. 7 Gonzaga. 2012 NCAA tournament interactive brackets Mike Hiserman's rim shots: --With its upset of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference title game, Vanderbilt may have become something of a trendy tournament darkhorse.

March Madness is going over the top. Turner Broadcasting, which along with CBS Corp. shares the rights for the annual NCAA college basketball tournament, is going to offer its coverage of the event over the Internet for $3.99. The 64-team NCAA tournament runs about a month and ends in early April. The championship game often draws more than 20 million viewers. Previously, people could watch games for free on the NCAA website, but not anymore. Games that CBS carries will remain available for free online.

Although revenue was up, higher costs for rights to sporting events and a less than spectacular performance by Warner Bros. meant smaller profits for media giant Time Warner Inc. The addition of the NCAA college basketball tournament meant more advertising dollars at Time Warner's Turner networks. But it also increased programming costs. That and some disappointing movie releases from Burbank-based Warner Bros., including "Hall Pass," led to a nearly 10% drop in net income to $653 million for the company's first quarter.

No one planned for the opposite sides of this year's Final Four bracket to turn out to be allegory for good versus upheaval. No one fathomed it. Only two out of 5.9 million entrants in ESPN's NCAA tournament contest picked Connecticut, Kentucky, Butler and Virginia Commonwealth to reach the Final Four. Look, though, at these slips plucked from a hat — one black, one white. Jim Calhoun and John Calipari, the respective coaches of Connecticut and Kentucky, represent blue-state, bluegrass and blue-blood aristocracy.

Southeast regional No. 2 Florida (29-7) vs. No. 8 Butler (26-9), New Orleans, 1:30 p.m. PDT, Channel 2 Florida can't be as sloppy offensively as it was against BYU if it wants to beat Butler. The Gators need to be patient against a smart Butler team on both ends of the court. Offensively, the Gators have more size up front and need to take advantage, not jack up 3-pointers. Butler runs a lot of screens, and Florida especially has to worry about Bulldogs guard Shelvin Mack from beyond the arc. Look for Butler's guards to have success applying defensive pressure against Florida's backcourt.

Reporting from Spokane, Wash. UCLA won in double overtime before a hostile crowd at Notre Dame. The Bruins lost but learned hard lessons at Stanford. They hope the experiences pay off Monday night at McCarthey Athletic Center when they play Gonzaga on its home court in the second round of the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Bruins Coach Nikki Caldwell said last week that "no favors were done" when the NCAA tournament selection committee seeded the Bruins third in the Spokane Regional and put them on course to play an opening-weekend game on the road.