The basketball March Madness dates to 1939 when an Illinois high school athletics administrator named Henry Porter used it in ...

No matter how much you know about college basketball — if you’re looking to share in the fun, make your own bracket, or even ...

Henry V. Porter, an official with IHSA, first used the term "March Madness" in an essay in 1939 to describe the excitement surrounding the Illinois high school tournament. Porter was a teacher and ...

During a college baseball game yesterday between Coastal Carolina and Eastern Carolina, the ESPN+ cameras caught a couple of ...

Madness came to be. View more. Video Transcript. Where did the name March Madness come from? Well, in 1908, the Illinois High School Association began a basketball tourn ...

The college football season is still a few months away, but one of the sport's biggest names is gearing up for 2025 in a big ...

The term "March Madness" originally comes from a high school basketball tournament in Illinois in 1939, where Henry V. Porter ...

Madness.” Even if you’re not much of a basketball fan, you’re seeing and hearing this phrase all over right now, unless you’re living in a cave — although ...

Madness” didn’t originate with the NCAA Tournament. Here is a look back at where the term came from and how the NCAA landed ...

University of Illinois basketball – both men's and women's teams – are getting ready for their 2025 NCAA Tournament debuts.

But the term wasn't officially used in reference to college basketball until 1982, when CBS broadcaster Brent Musburger used it during that year’s coverage.Most of the tournament rounds have ...