Dan Wolken

Only in college sports could SMU firing its men’s basketball coach trigger a chain reaction leading to the most seismic coaching move of the decade.

Purdue and Zach Edey have seen many high-level big men, but it’s fair to say Boilermakers have never faced anyone quite like NC State’s D.J. Burns.

What’s the deal with NC State and ice cream? It’s actually a pretty simple story — and one that even the NC State fan base sometimes gets wrong.

North Carolina State was nowhere on the college basketball map three weeks ago. Now with hero DJ Burns leading them, the Wolfpack are Final Four bound.

Before Sweet 16 game against Marquette, NC State coach Kevin Keatts says with a “bunch of new dudes” it takes time to bring a team together.

Duke coach Jon Scheyer faces literally the toughest test in his two-year tenure against No. 1 seed Houston in Sweet 16.

Dusty May is moving to Michigan. May, who led Florida Atlantic to consecutive NCAA Tournaments and one Final Four, will replace Juwan Howard.

Kentucky again suffered an NCAA Tournament disappointment and it means it’s time for the school and coach John Calipari to part ways.

What is being sold as a 14-team College Football Playoff compromise is in reality the most heavy-handed money grab yet from the SEC and Big Ten.

Clark and Maravich stand on their own. She is not breaking his NCAA record because they didn’t play the same game in same era with same rules.

Thanks to Caitlin Clark and other women’s star players and programs, NCAA tournament drama this March is decidedly on one end of the gender divide.

With college coaches complaining about transfer portal, NIL, a common refrain is that being head coach isn’t what it used to be. Welcome to reality.

There’s chaos in college athletics and everyone is to blame. Tennessee’s overwrought response to an NCAA investigation illustrates all the issues.

Jannik Sinner is a Grand Slam champion and maybe the best tennis player in the world after he rallies to beat Daniil Medvedev at Australian Open.

No matter what happens next for Michigan’s football program, the next handful of years probably isn’t going to look like the last handful.

Congratulations to Nick Saban on a job more than well-done. Pity the rest of us who will never see his kind again.

The fact that Michigan didn’t need to cheat doesn’t erase what happened. It will forever be part of the season, and it was all so silly and unnecessary.

Few coaches in college football are more aggressive than Kalen DeBoer. Even fewer are as cool under pressure. That combo has made Washington special.

Harbaugh can make a difference by staying at Michigan to become the advocate he says players need.

When Michigan and Washington battle Monday we will get the last national champion that truly represents a conference and a region of the country.