Fans navigating the dozens of schools in the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments might become as attached to the ...

The Drake men's basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament without its live mascot, Griff II, a six-year-old English ...

Sports Illustrated released its list of the top mascots in the 2025 NCAA tournament. Michigan State's Sparty mascot was created in 1955. The University of Michigan has never had an official mascot ...

Zippy (Akron): "She was No. 1 last year, and she is now the owner of her own NIL deal. Any other year, she'd be the champion, and she remains Ohio's only native kangaroo and a trailblazing female ...

Fans navigating the dozens of schools in the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments might become as attached to the mascots as the athletes themselves.Furry, animated characters used as ...

Xavier's Blue Blob is back on the sport's biggest stage. / Aaron Doster-Imagn Images At its heart, March Madness is not a spectator sport. The NCAA men's and women's tournaments are meant to be ...

March Madness features great teams, brackets and — sometimes — overlooked mascots, who channel school spirit and get crowds fired up. So who are the best mascots in the 2025 NCAA basketball ...

They dance, they charge, they occasionally crowd-surf—and no, we're not talking about the starting lineup. NCAA mascots are in a league of their own. They are fierce, fantastically weird, and ...

Unfortunately, one of the most adorable mascots in college basketball won't be present for the first round of the NCAA Tournament. On Thursday night, Drake will take on Missouri in the West Region.

The dogs are out of the NCAA Tournament, at least for now. For the fourth time in the last five seasons, the Drake men's basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament without their mascot ...