Calipari coached No. 10 Arkansas to a 79-72 victory over Bill Self and No. 7 Kansas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament here at the AMP Thursday night. Former Camden High School star DJ Wagner scored 14 points with 6 assists and 3 rebounds as Arkansas won for the fourth time in its last five games.

The latest chapter of a college basketball coaching career with more drama, scandal, and vacation (not the leisure kind) dust-ups than “A Real Housewives” franchise finds the 72-year-old Pitino as resurrector-in-chief of St.

The evening matchup out of the South Region has the No. 4 seed Michigan Wolverines taking on the No. 12 UC San Diego Tritons.

What are Tritons? Here's what to know about the history of UC San Diego's nickname ahead of the men's NCAA Tournament game vs Michigan:

Led by coach Will Wade, the Cowboys harassed the Tigers into an 18-point halftime hole, then held on for a 69-67 win.

Fewer than a million perfect brackets remained on ESPN and just over a million were left on the NCAA's platform midway through the first day of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday. ESPN's perfect bracket tracker listed 806,