The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament is over, and we're ready to announce the winners of the Sixth Annual DCist Readers-Staff March Madness Pool. more ›

It was a crazy weekend for college hoops fans, and our local teams got into the act—to some extent. While the men's teams' seasons may be over, at least our area women are still making a run. Here's our rundown of what happened for NCAA tournament teams Georgetown, Loyola, VCU, Virginia, Norfolk State, and Maryland. more ›

By popular demand, in addition to our annual readers-staff pool for the NCAA men's basketball tournament, this year DCist is introducing our contest for the Division I women's basketball tournament. more ›

It's tournament time! And you know what that means—that's right, it's your chance to challenge your DCist writers, editors and photographers in the annual reader-staff pool. more ›

Now that school is back in session and conference play is underway, DCist is giving you a rundown of all the local hoops teams, and we mean all of them. So if you need something to distract you from that other team in DC, we have eight more that you can follow. more ›

While 2011 is winding down, college basketball is about to pick up. Area schools are about to begin -- or have already begun -- conference play, which means it's time for the first of many college hoops roundups this season. So whether you follow the Hoyas, Terps, Colonials, Patriots, Bison or Eagles, we here at DCist have got you covered: more ›

Last week, Andrew Wiseman and I attended the BB&T Classic at the Verizon Center, a college basketball event that raises funds for the Children's Charities Foundation and is organized by local sports writer John Feinstein. While this year marked the 17th year of the Classic, it may have very well been the weakest-attended since the event started back in 1995. more ›

Just days removed from the surprising retirement of long-tenured coach Gary Williams, the University of Maryland has hired Mark Turgeon of Texas A&M as the Terrapins new head coach, reports FOX Sports. more ›

In a shocking turn of events, Gary Williams, the head basketball coach of the University of Maryland, has decided to retire effective immediately. Williams, who lead the team to the national championship in 2002, will officially step down tomorrow afternoon after coaching the Terrapins for 22 seasons. more ›

It's long been a contested issue, since their last regular season meeting nearly 18 years ago at the old USAir Arena: will the Georgetown Hoyas and Maryland Terrapins ever play one another again? An answer to that question might be coming soon, though. According to the Washington Times, the two programs are in talks to renew their college hoops rivalry. more ›

Now that March Madness is really underway -- with four channels of viewing enjoyment for good measure -- DCist breaks down the local area teams that made the Big Dance as well as those that, well, did not. more ›

It's tournament time! And you know what that means -- that's right, it's your chance to challenge your DCist writers, editors and photographers in the annual reader-staff pool. This year, your editor-in-chief will hope to improve on last year's 47th place finish, though I'm sure stiff competition will be provided by the lot of you. more ›

Now that we have entered the month of February, the heart of the ACC schedule is in full swing. While Wednesday's action features a half-dozen teams in conference play, the main attraction is obviously the rivalry rematch between Duke and Maryland in College Park. more ›

October is arguably the greatest month on the entire sports calendar, though college basketball fans might disagree -- March is still a long way off. But we do have Midnight Madness, otherwise known as the annual tip-off to the collegiate hoops season. DCist has taken the liberty of compiling this year's Madness events in the area -- they all take place tomorrow night -- so whether you root for the Hoyas, Terps, Patriots or Colonials, we've got you covered. more ›

Even though it will be difficult to top one of the best NCAA Tournaments in recent memory, local college basketball fans can already start looking forward to next season -- and that means the BB&T Classic. more ›

As tonight's men's national championship game approaches, it's fair to look back and conclude that D.C. lost our story lines from March Madness 2010 too quickly. Georgetown's first round ouster to Ohio sent brackets and survivor pools into a tailspin. Maryland's Greivis Vasquez -- recently named the top point guard in college basketball this season -- heroically brought his team back from the brink against Michigan State in the second round, only for Terrapin hearts to be shattered by a buzzer beater. Old Dominion made some waves, but fell to Baylor. Richmond bowed out quietly. With West Virginia the only plausibly "local" team to remain standing, to say it's been a disappointing NCAA tournament -- locally -- would be an understatement. more ›

Ohio 97, Georgetown 83: Heading into the glorious first day of March Madness, there had been a fair amount of sturm und drang regarding the placement of the Georgetown Hoyas in the same bracket as the Kansas Jayhawks. Pundits claimed that Duke had an easier route to the Final Four and apparently, there was concern that the Jayhawks might struggle against the likes of Chris Wright's Tenacious D and the quiet dominance of Greg Monroe. more ›

It's tournament time! And you know what that means -- that's right, it's your chance to challenge your DCist writers, editors and photographers in the annual reader-staff pool. This year, your sports editor will hope to improve on 2009's 64th place finish, though I'm sure stiff competition will be provided by the whole lot of you. more ›

Whew. Between the Caps, the basketball, and everything else, there was a ton of stuff happening in the D.C. sports world yesterday. In the interest of equal time, bring on the bulletpoints! more ›

This is it. The day that all the bracketologists have spent so much time preparing for. The day when we all start frantically printing out our copies of the pairings with pencils at the ready (and pen, for the more daring among us), frantically thinking about what #12 seed will pull the upset this year, which Cinderellas will emerge and whether we stick with our alma maters in the face of all logic. The day where we start seriously planting the seeds for excuses to get out of the office on Thursday at noon. The day when all the speculation ends, and we can truly start analyzing the best competition in sports. It's a good day. more ›

It's that time of the year again, when the regular season is winding to a close and conference tournaments are in full swing. Yes, the madness of March is here. It's about time for us to take a look back at those who've earned the right to special recognition before we all descend into a world consumed by brackets, upsets, and that oh-so-hummable theme music that will soon be endlessly pumped into our ears while we float away into basketball heaven. more ›

The Post reports that 27 people were arrested in the skirmish, many of them University of Maryland students. WUSA9's video footage clearly shows officers using violent tactics against some of the revelers: one student was hit in the head repeatedly with a night stick, while another was beaten with a riot shield. Some of those celebrating are also shown pulling down a street sign, and later, a smaller group of students set fire to a tree on campus, according to the Post. more ›

My, how things have changed. Thanks to a veteran lineup of three senior starters, as well as the arrival of freshman big man Jordan Williams, Maryland finally reentered both Top 25 polls on Monday and is currently in second place in the conference. While the team failed to meet expectations early in the season by falling to Wisconsin, Cincinnati, and Villanova, Maryland has rebounded down the stretch during conference play, surging to a five-game winning streak, including an impressive double-overtime thriller at Virginia Tech last Saturday night. Heading into last night, #4 Duke (25-5, 12-3 ACC) and #23 Maryland (22-7, 12-3 ACC) had situated themselves atop the conference with room to spare. In fact, Maryland's last loss was against the Blue Devils in a game that was over just minutes after tip-off. more ›

Going into yesterday's big game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, here were Maryland's last five results against the Blue Devils spanning the past two years: loss by six, loss by 11, loss by 41, loss by 12, loss by nine. more ›

It was merely three days ago that the #8 Georgetown Hoyas (17-5, 7-4 Big East), who were coming off a nationally-televised and Presidentially-attended throttling of Duke, lost to an average South Florida team -- even without their best player, Gus Gilchrist, who had an ankle injury -- on a chilly Wednesday evening at the Verizon Center. more ›

What a bummer night for the ballin' Georges: Georgetown was undone after South Florida and Dominique Jones (29 points) used a 30-9 run to claim victory 72-64, George Mason lost a surprising one against Georgia State to fall into a three-way tie at the top of the CAA and George Washington blew a lead and fell to Charlotte. But on the bright side, D.C. United released its 2010 schedule and traded for D.C.-born and Virginia-bred striker Adam Cristman. Let's see...what else? more ›

After twenty minutes of standing in line in the snow listening to buzzed twenty-something Duke and Georgetown alums try their best to talk trash without ever actually mentioning the game -- or even the sport -- about to be played, I don't think anyone could have excused the neutral fan from sitting this one out. You'd be hard-pressed to find two fan bases that express more entitlement than these two. After all, one Final Four in 22 years and Hoyas fans are wearing shirts that say, "Respect is back, Fear is next"? How'd they follow that one up anyhow? With an NCAA tourney loss to Davidson and then an NIT bid? Fear, you say? more ›

It's now after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which means that local college basketball enthusiasts should start stockpiling brownie points with the boss -- all so that when we call out sick on Thursday and Friday, March 18 and 19, it won't look quite so bad. Yes, Selection Sunday is but seven weeks away. That said, where are local teams sitting in terms of their NCAA tournament chances? Leave it to the Hi-Lo to sift through the muck and bring you the straight bracketology dope. more ›

It seems like everywhere you look this week, the number ten was prominently on display. Decade retrospectives, getting in the habit of writing "10" on the end of date abbreviations, and so forth. Why not join the party? As the major power conferences begin their conference schedules, yours truly thought it a good idea to take a look back at the ten most important regional games of the season so far -- and the ten most important matchups to come. Let's get started with the games that were: more ›

It was a light week in college basketball, as most teams shift from the travel-heavy preseason tournament/cash-grab parade to mentally and physically prepare for run up to a grueling conference schedule -- not to mention the need to leave time for student athletes to actually take their exams. Of course, that's not to say that there wasn't plenty of hoops on the platter. more ›