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Conference tournament chaos reigned as teams like New Mexico, Oregon and NC State punched their NCAA tournament tickets and made the bubble shrink.

The Wolfpack are dancing! NC State capped a magical ACC tourney by beating North Carolina for its fifth win in five nights.

The Wolfpack are dancing! NC State capped a magical ACC tourney by beating North Carolina for its fifth win in five nights.

The internet can be a cruel, cruel place most days, and NBA fans don’t need to look much further than Saturday night’s broadcast between the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards.
Bulls play-by-play announcer Adam Amin and color commentator Stacey King fell for a fake report that former Bulls star, and current Memphis Grizzlies reserve, Derrick Rose, was retiring from the NBA after 15 seasons.
King brought the “report” up from the broadcast, that ended up being a fake account impersonating ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski.
“It is out on the internet.

This week, Kent State had all the makings of a potential Cinderella story.
The Golden Flashes played giant killer on Thursday and Friday in the MAC men’s tournament in Cleveland, taking out highly touted Toledo and Bowling Green teams to reach the final. Against Akron Saturday, they took a 61-60 lead in the closing seconds.
Then, everything unraveled.
As Zips guard Greg Tribble wove up the court, Kent State guard Julius Rollins—seemingly forgetting his team led by one—fouled him with five seconds to play.

The center of the men’s college basketball conference tournament week universe is Las Vegas. Five tournaments call Sin City home, with essentially the entire West Coast converging on the city for a week of wall-to-wall college hoops.
This year’s trip to the desert was a bittersweet one. Conference realignment’s biggest victim is the presence of a so-called power conference out West, with the Pac-12 dissolving in what can best be described as a consolidation of power at the top of college sports.

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the upcoming fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. Sure, there’s been a lot of talk about how it’s kind of weird that a dude under 30 is going to duke it out with a guy old enough for an AARP card (Tyson is 57, for the record), but that older just so happens to be one of the greatest boxers of all time.
And, Tyson’s preparations for the fight have also gotten a lot of attention. 
Because, well… it’s just pretty impressive.

Oh, so you thought an investigation into alleged fixing of games would stop the Temple Owls from making a run in the AAC tournament this week? Well, I’ve got news for you, the Owls are playing for a conference championship on Sunday, against the same team that was part of this investigation. 
Temple University has gone on a four-game winning streak this week, with Saturday bringing another upset for the Owls.

An NFL offseason plan tends to come together in stages, leaving us to ride the roller coaster of common sense alongside a team like the Pittsburgh Steelers, awaiting the moment when all is revealed.
Trading for Russell Wilson on its own, despite the incredible monetary value of a quarterback at that caliber playing for the veteran’s minimum? Yikes.
Trading away Kenny Pickett, leaving Wilson as the unquestioned leader of that Steelers team and locker room? Even more yikes.

Ohio State is targeting interim coach Jake Diebler as its next head men’s basketball coach, according to a report from Jeff Goodman of Field of 64.
Diebler took over for Chris Holtmann, who was dismissed in February. Since stepping into the interim position, Diebler led the Buckeyes to a 6–2 record down the stretch of the regular season, which included an upset victory over No. 2 Purdue in his first game in the role.
Ohio State lost in Friday’s Big Ten tournament quarterfinal to No. 13 Illinois.