Pac-12 tries to boost men’s basketball, loosen transfer rule

Kris Jenkins is one of those players who believes every shot is going in. The Villanova junior answered a double-clutch, game-tying 3-pointer by North Carolina’s Marcus Paige with a buzzer-beating 3 of his own Monday night to lift the Wildcats to a 77-74 victory and the national championship. The shot came on a play Villanova works on every day in practice: Jenkins inbounds the ball to Ryan Arcidiacono, he works it up court and forward Daniel Ochefu sets a pick near halfcourt to clutter things up, then Arcidiacono creates.

The 11th-seeded Bruins upset top-seeded Michigan to become just the second team ever to go from the First Four to the Final Four.

With two picks in each of the first two rounds of the 2018 NFL draft, the New England Patriots could be setting themselves up for a gigantic move up the board to land an eventual successor for Tom Brady. But how far are they willing to go to get the right guy? Pretty far, if the latest 2018 NFL mock draft from CBS Sports is any indication. This projection has the Pats parting with both of their first-round picks in this year’s draft, in addition to next year’s first-rounder, to move all the way up to the Cleveland Browns’ spot at No. 4 overall. Their target? USC’s Sam Darnold Darnold isn’t as polished as UCLA’s Josh Rosen or as dynamic as Louisville’s Lamar Jackson, but he’s got all the upside