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Michigan State lost at Nebraska on Saturday. You might not think that’s too big a deal. After all, Michigan State lost at home to the Huskers a season ago, and not only made the NCAA tournament, but gained a No. 4 seed and eventually progressed to the Elite Eight. This is a Tom Izzo team. […]
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A total of 137 games were played on Saturday. What five stories emerged from the pack? Here they are: * 5 – DAVIDSON AND DAYTON AVOID BAD LOSSES There is a difference between a quality win and a bad loss, between making a tangible gain and avoiding a huge step backward. For the Davidson Wildcats […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/23/2015
We still have five weeks to go until March, and seven weeks until Selection Sunday on March 15. Moving parts will continue to shift across the chessboard. A team in the top 25 of the (meaningless) polls will lose two or three games late in the season and approach the bubble if not crash all […]
Oregon State head coach Wayne Tinkle has done a remarkable job with his roster this season, but if he’s going to make the NCAA tournament, he’ll have to get his team to win on the road, something it manifestly failed to do on Wednesday night against Arizona State.
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This is becoming a special college basketball season for a number of programs that, in recent years, have known nothing other than misery. Teams that have slogged through hopeless seasons over the past half-decade are finally beginning to dig out of a cave and rediscover what it means to live in the light. Two of […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 1/22/2015
Northwestern, a program that has never made the NCAA tournament, has always received one kind of luck: the bad kind. That 76-year trend was affirmed on Thursday. Check out this missed goaltending call late in the Wildcats’ game against Ohio State. Notice Northwestern coach Chris Collins going bonkers at the very end:
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/20/2015
At the beginning of the bowl season, I wrote about why bowl games are so great: They encourage more coaches to be uninhibited in their decision making, compared to the regular season. There’s nothing about that piece I’d want to walk back or retract, but there was and is something incomplete about it: I should have […]
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No, I did not expect to use an NFL game as the source of column material this week, but much as another Green Bay-Seattle game from a few years ago — the “Fail Mary” game — magnified what I had written about a college football controversy, this latest Packer-Seahawk tussle also says something important about […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/19/2015
The Student Section’s review of the 2014 college football season rolls along, item by item. In this piece, we tackle the 10 best offensive coordinators from the past season. * 10 – LANE KIFFIN, ALABAMA Kiffin’s arrival at Alabama was greeted with predictable scoffing and laughter after his failed tenure as USC’s head coach. However, […]
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What’s part of any attempt to set the table for the next college football season, while also taking into account what’s happened in the just-concluded season? There are many answers. One of them is a rankings list of all the head coaching hires from the latest winter spin on the carousel. Here we go: * […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/18/2015
The Arizona Wildcats lost at Oregon State last Sunday night. They played a very ordinary game against the going-nowhere Colorado Buffaloes on Thursday. It’s true that a lot of season remains — two whole months before the NCAA tournament starts — but if you thought Arizona was a Final Four contender, you wouldn’t have known […]
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When the NFL playoffs occupy a January Saturday, the number of evening games with ranked teams can typically be counted on one hand. With no more Saturday football, the college basketball season unfurled its first industrial-strength Saturday. Most of the bigger games were blowouts, but that won’t prevent The Student Section from selecting the top […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 1/17/2015
Oklahoma ran wild against Oklahoma State… throughout Saturday’s game, and especially on these two dunks late in the Sooners’ blowout win:
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Texas’s Prince Ibeh delivered this “royal flush” against West Virginia on Saturday:
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Arizona State picked up its first Pac-12 win of the season on Saturday against Colorado. The visual highlight? Shaquielle McKissic’s authoritative dunk against the Buffaloes:
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At the start of a busy college basketball Saturday, Wayne Blackshear awakened many of us by throwing down this dunk against Duke:
