First Four teams hoping to make more history tonight

Two years ago the University of Dayton Arena made history, last year it witnessed it and tonight the place will welcome it with the arrival of Liberty University. The Big South Conference champion Flames, at 15-20, are just the second team with 20 or more losses to qualify for the ...

• 4:25 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, 2013

First Four game to reunite coaches

Tonight’s second game of the First Four between Middle Tennessee State and St. Mary’s College will mark the first ever meeting between the two schools, but it also will be a reunion. MTSU coach Kermit Davis and SMC’s Randy Bennett were on Tim Floyd’s staff at the University of Idaho ...

• 8:34 p.m. Monday, March 18, 2013

Dayton has long, colorful history with NCAA tourney

Hosting NCAA tournament games requires almost as much planning as a NASA space launch, which is why schools usually are given advance notice of a couple of years to begin preparations. But that wasn’t the case in 1970 when Dayton and its visionary athletic director, Tom Frericks, agreed to take ...

• 6:20 p.m. Monday, March 18, 2013

March Madness-themed restaurant week extended

The Miami Valley Restaurant Association is keeping the food madness going for another week. Miami Valley Takes Flight has been extended until Friday, Amy Zahora, MVRA’s executive director, said. “The restaurants thought it would be a great promotion for all of our basketball crowds coming to town, and people from ...

• 11:53 a.m. Monday, March 18, 2013

Watch all the NCAA games: the schedule

A tv listing of all the NCAA games and what channels to find them on.

2013 First Four practice, preparations

North Carolina A&T held their first practice session at UD Arena in preparation of the First Four NCAA games that begin Tuesday.

• 11:22 p.m. Monday, March 18, 2013

NCAA First Four open practices

• 8:06 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, 2013