0 comments by Scott on 3/6/2015
The one bid leagues have kicked off tournament play in earnest. Some got started earlier this week, some last night, but we are just about to get into the major swing of things. I happen to love small conference tournaments. These teams have only one chance to get to the NCAA tournament. The league champions […]
LAS VEGAS, NV – MARCH 11: Tyler Haws #3 of the Brigham Young Cougars is fouled as he drives against Gary Bell Jr. #5 and Kevin Pangos #4 of the Gonzaga Bulldogs during the championship game of the West Coast Conference Basketball tournament at the Orleans Arena on March 11, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gonzaga won 75-64. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
0 comments by Mike Ferguson
The regular season will come to a close this weekend, and life for teams on the bubble is very fragile. Key developments this week within mid-major conferences have shrunk the number of bubble spots, and at this point in the season, one game can make or break a team’s NCAA hopes. Teams in all caps […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/5/2015
It doesn’t happen every spring, but it does happen every March, just before the seasons officially change: A plot twist in the middle section of a power-conference race puts a bubble team in even bigger trouble. Hmmm — why this focus on the “middle section” of a conference race? What could be the point of […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
In one of the better and more heartwarming stories of the college basketball season, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been invited to play in its first Division I postseason tournament, the CIT. The CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, which is like the distant, non-blood relative to the NCAA Tournament and only cousins with the NIT […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
Thanks to some great reporting from the Duke Chronicle, more and more information is coming to the light concerning Rasheed Sulaimon being accused of sexually assaulting two different women. The details that have been reported are troubling, confusing to some, and are part of a situation that should be played out over the course of a […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Okay, I’ll just preface this column with the fact that if it makes you angry, you need new hobbies. This is a list of the best school combinations of basketball and football coaches as compiled by one person, and while this can be done a million different ways, it really […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/4/2015
Pundits, websites, and television commentators — in sports but also politics and other realms of human endeavor — will frequently exaggerate. Some of this is intentional (click-bait, ratings, starting conversations, etc.), but there comes a point in time when people paid to analyze a given field of activity really do believe in an extreme position. […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Tuesday night, the Kansas Jayhawks won the outright Big 12 championship most people thought they’d win all along, present company very much included. Death. Taxes. Bill Self winning the Big 12. It’s part of the air we breathe in college basketball, as regular as your morning coffee or six timeouts in the final two minutes […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Big Ten quarterback discussion, you say? Let’s get weird. The best quarterback in a Big Ten stadium this upcoming year might be a head coach, and the best guy that’s actually going to throw the ball was a third stringer about this time last year, hopelessly buried on the depth […]
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0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 3/3/2015
With the conference tournaments looming, bubble teams are looking to make some final impressions in the regular season. Here are some mid-week games to watch: TUESDAY Ole Miss at Alabama: With both of these teams on the bubble (and yes, Alabama is on the bubble, albeit the periphery), both need this win badly. Alabama needs […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
The Pac-12 is known as a conference full of high powered offenses and that starts at the quarterback position. In 2014, the Pac-12 boasted Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota but the conference was very deep in QB talent. Cody Kessler, Brett Hundley, Sean Mannion, Connor Halliday and Anu Solomon are just some of the names […]
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0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/2/2015
Championship Week is one of the best times of the year, a time when the Davids of the world get a chance to feel like Goliath. It is a chance for teams from leagues like the Atlantic Sun, SWAC, and Big Sky get to play on ESPN, and get a chance to make it to […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
If a rival fan base — or on a broader level, the collection of fan bases in a conference — hopes that a given coach sticks around for a long time, that’s a pretty good indication of a coach’s perception in the public eye. Keep this in mind: Perception isn’t necessarily reality. To be more […]
This man’s in a lot of trouble.
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
The mean streets of Twitter had some fun at the expense of Memphis Tigers coach Josh Pastner recently. Terms like “Pastner’d” were used and everyone had a solid giggle. The attempts at humor had a lot to do with a growing thought that the young coach isn’t exactly brilliant drawing up the X-and-Os and the fact […]
