NCAA Basketball

On Monday, Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Lindsay Gottlieb was named the new women's head basketball coach at USC.

Former Kentucky Wildcats basketball player Terrence Clarke was killed in a crash in Los Angeles Thursday, according to multiple reports.

The NCAA hit Southern California’s men’s basketball program with two years’ probation on Thursday because a former assistant coach violated NCAA ethics rules when he accepted a bribe to steer players to a business management company.

Just two days after feeling the high of beating UCLA on a buzzer-beating three-pointer, Gonzaga fell back down to earth, falling to Baylor in the national championship game.

Two men were taken into police custody Saturday night in Westwood for their role in off-campus vandalism in which fires were set after UCLA's overtime loss to Gonzaga in a national semifinal game of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.  

USC's bid to upset Gonzaga appears slimmer by the minute.

UCLA and USC will both seek berths in the NCAA men's basketball tournament's Final Four on Tuesday, the first time that has happened in history.

Sixth-seed USC has punched a ticket to the Elite 8 after beating Oregon 82-68.

UCLA and Southern California games are usually late-night viewing for most college basketball fans during the regular season but both programs have prime time spots for the second weekend of March Madness.

Isaiah Mobley hit four 3-pointers and scored 17 points, All-American little brother Evan added 10 points and 13 rebounds, and sixth-seeded USC rolled to an 85-51 victory Monday night inside Hinkle Fieldhouse — more than doubling the worst margin of defeat for the Jayhawks in 49 trips to the NCAA Tournament.

USC has received the sixth seed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament's West Region and will face the winner of Thursday's Drake-Wichita State First Four game Saturday in Indianapolis.

UCLA is scheduled face Michigan State on Thursday in an NCAA men's basketball tournament First Four game in West Lafayette, Indiana, with the winner advancing to face Brigham Young on Saturday.