LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) Restricted free agent defensive end Mark Anderson has signed his one-year tender offer from the Chicago Bears.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) honored four student-athletes with the NABC Senior Achievement Awards and included was Kansas' Sherron Collins.

Butler center Matt Howard could miss Monday night's championship game with a head injury.

Yes, it's a matchup pitting a cute bulldog against a devil, America's favorite underdog against the team people love to hate.

Every good Hollywood film needs an underdog and a villain.

Kansas men's basketball players Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich have been named to the 2010 State Farm® Coaches' Division I All-America teams at Bracket TownTM during the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) convention here Saturday.

Kansas State head coach Frank Martin finished as the runner-up to Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim for The Associated Press National Coach of the Year award, it was announced on Friday.

The Indianapolis Star newspaper has apologized to Duke University after some of Friday's editions included an illustration of coach Mike Krzyzewski with horns and a target drawn on his head.

Michigan State's run to the Final Four has been filled with player injuries.

The NCAA appears to be on the verge of expanding the men’s basketball tournament to 96 teams.

Ohio State junior swingman Evan Turner is the runaway choice as The Associated Press’ college basketball player of the year.

Jim Boeheim is The Associated Press’ college basketball coach of the year.

Butler's Gordon Hayward has produced wins in every way possible.

Youngstown State University basketball senior forward Dallas Blocker has been named the recipient of the tenth annual V Foundation Comeback Award, given annually by The V Foundation for Cancer Research in collaboration with ESPN.

After posting a school-record 29 victories and taking Kansas State to the NCAA regional semifinals for the first time in 22 years, coach Frank Martin sees his next challenge clearly laid out.

This year's Final Four will be won by the final fivesome. Not a superstar surrounded by four complementary players, but a team with players who rely on each other.

North Carolina coach Roy Williams is predicting Duke to bring a second straight national championship to Tobacco Road.

Oddsmakers in Las Vegas say Duke is the favorite among the Final Four to win the NCAA title while Michigan State is a longshot despite its trip to the finals last year.

Joe Mazzulla scored a career-high 17 points in his first start of the season to help West Virginia beat top-seeded Kentucky 73-66 in the East Regional final Saturday to advance to its first Final Four since 1959.

Shelvin Mack had 16 for the Bulldogs (32-4), who won their 24th straight game. They head to the Final Four in downtown Indianapolis, only 5 miles from their campus, where parts of the underdog classic "Hoosiers'' was filmed.

Despite the major obstacles he faced, Scott Drew envisioned building an elite program when he arrived at Baylor nearly seven years ago.

It's the first trip to the round of eight in school history for the sixth-seeded Volunteers.

Anyone heading to Manhattan's Aggieville district on Saturday afternoon might think about getting there on foot.

Kyle Singler scored 24 points and Jon Scheyer added 18, snapping out of a shooting slump just in time to help top-seeded Duke advance to the round of eight for the first time since 2004 with a 70-57 win over Purdue on Friday night.

Durrell Summers scored 19 points and Korie Lucious hit a whirling turnaround jumper with 95 seconds left, helping fifth-seeded Michigan State survive a mid-major scare with a 59-52 win over pesky Northern Iowa in the Midwest Regional semifinals Friday night.