In one of the greatest college basketball games in Capital Region history, Siena upset Ohio State in the 2009 NCAA Hoops Tournament. Relive it through these photos.
A city in Upstate New York has had a 'March Madness' Cinderella-style run of its own, as it was named the top 'bar city' in America in a 64-city bracket.
The Syracuse men's basketball team is in real danger of missing the 2023 NCAA Tournament. They currently sit at 14-10 overall and 7-6 in conference play.
Two years into his young broadcasting career, former college basketball player Billy Packer became the voice of the March Madness and the Final Four in 1974 for CBS. Packer's voice became synonymous with the NCAA's crown jewel for the next 35 years.
In the course of coaching a premier college basketball program for nearly five decades, it would be easy to assume that one would get pretty good at assessing their team's chances from one year to the next. On Wednesday at the ACC Men's Basketball Media Day, Boeheim told several reporters that this year's squad of Orange will go to the Big Dance in March. After suffering his first losing season since taking up the profession at Syracuse, the 77 year-old coach is ready to get his team back to playing tournament basketball.
It was the University at Albany's first trip to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Head coach Will Brown would take the Great Danes four more times. However, the game on March 17, 2006 was more than special, on and off the court. I was at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia with the team and will never forget the experience of that game. Albany alumni across the country were digging out their old 'Albany State' sweatshirts after that program changing performance.
New York state is shattering expectations for sports wagering since its legalization in January, and we likely haven't even seen the peak of the first wave yet.