The Daily Mauling 3.12.25

KU to Face UCF to Open Big 12 Tournament: The sixth-seeded Kansas men’s basketball team will face No. 14 UCF on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. to open the Big 12 tournament, after the Knights knocked off No. 11 Utah 87-72 on Tuesday night at the T-Mobile Center.

Big 12 Basketball Tournament: Three Longshot Odds to Watch

The Big 12 Basketball Tournament begins this week in Kansas City with 16 teams hoping to win a conference tournament title. When you look at the Big 12 Tournament odds, the Houston Cougars are the heavy favorite. Frankly, at basically 1/1 odds, Houston doesn’t feel like a great value bet this week.

NCAA News

Iowa State ‘Leaning’ Towards Not Playing Spring Football Game in 2025

Iowa State football has been ahead of the times when it comes to plans, or a lack thereof, for Spring Football games.

In 2025, we’ve seen a wave of major college football programs go away from their annual tradition out of caution for the upcoming transfer portal window in April.

Congress Could Help NCAA Resolve Player Eligibility Antitrust Lawsuits

It was the latest ruling in a growing number of player eligibility cases that raise the same basic question: Given that college athletes can earn NIL income and, if the House settlement is approved, a share of revenue, do NCAA rules limiting eligibility to four seasons in five years illegally restrain trade?

New Lawsuit Challenges NCAA Transfer Rules As Settlement Sees NIL Roster Cuts

As the impending House settlement brings revenue-sharing to college sports, the new NIL landscape has seen many student athletes fall victim to the consequent roster cuts — particularly in non-revenue sports and thereby, women.

A former Oklahoma Sooners athlete is the latest to file a lawsuit against the NCAA as a challenge to their eligibility rules for those who enter the transfer portal.

5 Years Ago

‘He’s got it’ – An oral history of the NBA’s COVID-19 shutdown — and how it changed sports forever – ESPN

Ho — a professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in New York and the founding director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center — immediately recognized Silver. They greeted each other with pleasantries, but very quickly, with COVID-19 dominating the headlines, Silver broached a question.

“What do you think is going to happen?” Silver asked.

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