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Today’s problem
Game No. 538’s problem: 3.5 out of 5
Connections: Sports Edition hints for March 15, 2026
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Yellow: HOLD
Green: SECOND
Blue: CLOSE
Purple: QUEENS
Connections: Sports Edition answers for March 15, 2026
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Yellow
Basketball fouls: BLOCK, CHARGE, HOLD, REACH-IN
Green
First phrases in NCAA Tournament rounds: ELITE, FINAL, SECOND, SWEET
Blue
Women’s faculty basketball coaches: AURIEMMA, CLOSE, IVEY, STALEY
Purple
Teams certified for the 2026 males’s NCAA Tournament: GONZAGA, HIGH POINT, QUEENS, TROY
What is Connections: Sports Edition?
Connections: Sports Edition is The Athletic’s first-ever sport, a each day puzzle designed for gamers to seek out connections between 16 phrases on the sport board.
The sport’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 primarily based on commonalities inside every group as shortly as attainable. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one resolution, so be careful for phrases or gadgets that appear to belong to a number of classes!
Category examples:
Sports ____ : Fan, Car, Bar, Radio
U.S. Summer Olympians: Biles, Phelps, Ledecky, Lyles
Each class group is assigned a coloration, revealed as you resolve, starting from easy (yellow) to medium (inexperienced) to difficult (blue) to difficult (purple).
Who creates the puzzles for Connections: Sports Edition?
That’s me! My identify is Mark Cooper, and I create Connections: Sports Edition and work as a managing editor for faculty sports activities right here at The Athletic. I used to be beforehand The Athletic’s managing editor for breaking information.
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