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Major college football and basketball players will be permitted to transfer one time before graduating without being required to sit out a year of competition starting next season.

The University of Massachusetts won the men’s national college hockey championship Saturday, beating St. Cloud State 5-0. It’s the Minutemen’s first NCAA title, won despite playing part of the tournament short-handed because of coronavirus protocols.

Garrett Wait scored in overtime and short-handed Massachusetts beat two-time defending champion Minnesota Duluth 3-2 on Thursday night in the Frozen Four semifinals. UMass (19-5-4) advances to Saturday’s national championship game against St. Cloud State — as both teams seek to make program history with a first title. UMass was without four players due to COVID-19 contact-tracing protocols, including...

An American Olympic gold rush largely supported by U.S. college sports teams could be coming to an end

NBC Sport Boston’s Tom Giles shares the schedule for the Men’s Final Four.

With the March Madness basketball tournament ongoing, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case about how colleges can reward athletes who play Division I basketball and football

The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association sent a letter to NCAA President Mark Emmert saying the external review he proposed to look into potential gender equity issues wasn’t good enough.

A Supreme Court case being argued this week amid March Madness could erode the difference between elite college athletes and professional sports stars

Sue O’Connell sat down with Shira Springer, lecturer at the Boston University College of Communication, to talk about the wildly different fitness equipment and food options provided for men and women by the NCAA.

“She’s a fan. When she says she watches it seriously, she does,” Loyola-Chicago head coach Porter Moser said.

Some striking numbers tell the story of the power gap among top earners at elite universities and the NCAA — but not the way you might expect. We hear from Eos Foundation President Andrea Silbert and YW Boston President and CEO Beth Chandler.

Members of Congress are seeking answers for last week’s NCAA weight room disparity in San Antonio, the site of the women’s basketball tournament.

The games during the first week of the NCAA Tournament have still brought madness.

The coronavirus pandemic that forced the cancellation of last year’s NCAA Tournament returned with a vengeance.

NCAA women’s basketball players are celebrating this weekend after receiving an upgraded weight room following complaints that the women’s facilities were subpar compared to the men’s. NCAA Women’s Basketball posted a photo of the new gym on Twitter, declaring, “The weight room has arrived! Let’s gooooo.” Earlier this week, Stanford University Sports Performance Coach Ali Kershner shared images on Instagram of...

VCU was pulled from the NCAA Tournament on Saturday after what the school said were “multiple” positive COVID-19 tests within the past two days, ending the Rams’ run in college basketball’s annual showcase before it began. Last year’s entire tournament was called off because of the pandemic, and the NCAA moved this year’s event to Indiana and put teams...

NCAA Vice President of Women’s Basketball Lynn Holzman has apologized after a video on social media showed the small stack of weights provided to the women’s teams in San Antonio in comparison to the spacious weight room for the men’s teams in Indianapolis.

NCAA basketball administrators apologized to the women’s basketball players and coaches after inequities between the men’s and women’s tournament went viral on social media

The teams had barely landed in Texas when complaints of inequity between the women’s and men’s tournaments roared over social media posts noting the women’s weight training facilities in San Antonio were severely lacking compared to what the men have in Indianapolis.

“The NCAA bubble weight room situation is beyond disrespectful.”