0 comments by Bart D on 4/8/2015
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Former Georgia and then Alabama football player Johnathan Taylor, all 6’4″ of him, recently appeared in court regarding charges of domestic violence and criminal mischief. That, in and of itself is where a horrific story should end. But it doesn’t. Taylor was arrested just over a week ago when his […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch
It always seems weird to have a preseason top 25 the day after the national title game, when most of the top college players haven’t announced their NBA intentions, and especially this year when a lot of top recruits have not announced where they’ll be attending school next year. Still, last year’s effort ended up […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/7/2015
Let’s say you’re a replay zealot, as I am. What’s a replay zealot, first of all? Someone who believes in the more expansive use of replay to correct calls in all sports, someone who thinks that more applications of replay can only be a good thing for sports. A replay zealot would look at the […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
Saul Goodman, Wolverine, and Grayson Allen have so much in common as it is. Tough, overcoming normally unbeatable odds, and now having origin stories. For Goodman it was his time as Slippin’ Jimmy and his struggles to battle his conscience before becoming Walter White’s lawyer. Wolverine’s was filled with worldly travels, motorcycles, and a cycle of women […]
during the NCAA Men’s Final Four National Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 6, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
0 comments by Matt Zemek
At the end of this endlessly fascinating college basketball season, Wisconsin could not become what Duke became in 1991. That’s because the 2015 version of Duke stood in the Badgers’ way. When the Final Four came to Indianapolis in 1991, Duke took down an unbeaten team in the national semifinals and then won two nights […]
0 comments by Scott
Duke is fresh off toppling Wisconsin 68-63 for the national championship. The Blue Devils were down nine early in the second half. A killer 7-0 run during the final segment (after the under-4 media timeout) put the Blue Devils ahead for good. Here are a few of my immediate takeaways from a great championship game […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect It was a vapid, cold morning, the type of morning on which you make the same drive every day and can barely remember anything of significance about how you got there. You somehow just end up where you expected to be. Later that night, we would have practice, possibly the […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
While National Player of the Year Frank Kaminsky took the battle, Jahlil Okafor won the war. Kaminsky dominated Okafor much of the night, but Duke did just enough to win the 2015 national championship in a thriller. Kaminsky set the tone early, drawing Okafor out from the basket and controlling him with speed and footwork […]
0 comments by Scott on 4/6/2015
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No, Bo Ryan, you shouldn’t be surprised at all if Wisconsin ends the Big Ten’s national title drought next April.
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
The fact that one game in a single-elimination tournament can define legacies is slightly strange, but it’s understandable. In a sport where many coaches average over 20 wins a season and some of them enjoy rather lengthy runs in the NCAA Tournament, there has to be a way to separate the good coaches from the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Evaluating the quality of a sports story is one of the 19,847 reasons why being a sports fan is so much gosh-darn fun. The arguments we’ve all had with parents, siblings, school classmates, office colleagues, and people we meet at the ballpark or on the street have lent so much color and passion to our […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
On the final day of the 2015 NCAA Tournament, we’re looking at great teams that never won it all. In one article, we looked at clusters of teams (the Phi Slama Jama Houston Cougars, for instance) that never won a title in a multiple-year window. In this article, we identify the 10 best single-season teams […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats didn’t win the 2015 national championship, but Calipari won in Lexington in 2012. His groups of great Kentucky teams managed to bring home at least one title when they had a window of opportunity. Several memorably great groups of teams never did bring home a single national crown. On […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/5/2015
Frank Kaminsky is pretty good at the basketball. Most of us already knew that. His footwoork under the basket, his ability to shoot from distance, and his ability to be clutch have helped make other people realize that over the course of a full season. Doing so in a Final Four game against previously unbeaten Kentucky […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
The Wisconsin Badgers beat the Kentucky Wildcats in a wildly entertaining Final Four game. End column… or not. Despite the game itself being as pretty and fun a semifinal as anyone could ask for, the Internet predictably became an ugly place immediately after it was over. We have been down this road before, too — the […]
