SportsLine's model simulated Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Connecticut Huskies and revealed its NCAA Tournament 2026 Final Four picks for Saturday

Cinderella went home early. Seismic upsets have been scarce. There have been a record 21 NCAA tournament games with a margin of victory of 20 points or more. The closest thing to a charming underdog story this March was big-spending Texas making a run from the First Four to the second weekend.

Quinonez, a forward from Milagro, Ecuador, was Big East freshman of the year and sixth woman of the year and made the all-region team in Fort Worth. Her average of 17.3 points per game in four tournament games is nearly double her average of 9.9 through the Big East Tournament. She’s 8 of 13 from 3-point range over her last three games.

UConn, South Carolina, Texas and UCLA are not Thanos. But they still felt inevitable.

If you plan on attending the Final Four of the 2026 NCAA Tournament, you better be prepared to spend top dollar. Arizona, Illinois, Michigan and UConn all punched their tickets to the Final Four at Lucas Oil Stadium.

The Final Four is set in the 2026 women's NCAA Tournament, and every No. 1 seed is heading to Phoenix. Texas and South Carolina were both victorious on Monday night, ousting No. 2 Michigan and No. 3 TCU to join UConn and UCLA in the Final Four.

Michigan point guard Elliot Cadeau had a scare ahead of the team's trip to Indianapolis for the Final Four, but it sounds like he avoided the worst of it.

When Connecticut makes it past the opening weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament, the Huskies are almost impossible to stop.

How much would it cost you to get into the NCAA men’s tournament Final Four in Indianapolis on Saturday? Well, it’s much less than what it would have been if Duke had closed out the game against UConn in the Elite Eight instead of losing on a last-second shot by Braylon Mullins in an NCAA tournament epic on Sunday night.