No. 15 Kentucky bounces back to beat Mississippi State 80-72

No. 14 seed Stephen F. Austin has pulled off NCAA tournament shockers before and they’re in good shape against the No. 3 seed Red Raiders.

Nothing about this Knights season is ordinary, and that includes practice. While 30 other teams practice in secrecy, the doors are wide-open in Vegas.

Mark Byington has spent more than three months as the men’s basketball coach at James Madison without being able to take a recruiting trip or meet personally with the eight players joining his program during the coronavirus pandemic. “We wanted to get older,” said Byington, who left Georgia Southern for the Colonial Athletic Association program. Twenty Division I programs have changed coaches since March, when the pandemic shut down college and professional sports as well as in-person recruiting.