0 comments by Bart D on 2/21/2015
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect IF you’re looking for a high concentration of buzzards (and why you would be doing so, I have no idea), you might allegedly check the skies of East Lansing, Mich. After all, it’s only a matter of time, right? Ohio State went into their sty and rolled in their mud, […]
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The SEC Network launched in August of last season to much hype and curiosity. The first year saw cable and satellite distributors jump on board quickly and that has helped the network do something they didn’t think they would do so quickly…turn a profit. From 247Sports: South Carolina athletics director Ray Tanner told the school’s Board […]
The Big 12’s problem is that it doesn’t merely have one problem. The league has to make numerous adjustments, from non-conference scheduling to the conference title game issue to the split-championship issue which did not help the league’s cause. Oh, and the league might want to consider expanding IF the 12-team requirement for conference title games is upheld in April.
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 2/20/2015
The NCAA is widely considered the big bad beast of ineptness in the realm of college sports. Not only is it trendy to pick on all things governing-body related, it is expected if you care about anything that deals with their fictional ideal of amateurism that you pile on them as often as possible. However, […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
Coming off Wednesday night’s loss to Arizona State and Stanford’s recent loss to Colorado, the Pac-12 is in danger of getting as many teams in the NCAA Tournament as the Missouri Valley Conference: two. While Arizona and Utah are locks to get in, there is not another team in the conference which can feel confident […]
PITTSBURGH, PA – JANUARY 25: Jamel Artis #1 of the Pittsburgh Panthers reacts near the end of the game against the Louisville Cardinals during the game at Petersen Events Center on January 25, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)
0 comments by Mike Ferguson
We’re roughly two weeks away from the start of conference tournaments. For teams on the bubble, they must play well now. A number of teams notched signature victories this week, but for some, there is still work to do. Teams in all caps are projected to be conference champions. Conference winners will account for 32 […]
0 comments by Allen Kenney
The recent talk of making freshmen ineligible for men’s basketball and football got a little more serious Thursday, when word leaked out that the Big Ten actually is giving the idea some thought. Given that commissioners Bob Bowlsby of the Big 12 and Larry Scott of the Pac-12 also have discussed the idea lately, it would […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/19/2015
When a discussion on “ways to improve college basketball” develops, the first thing you’ll likely hear is that timeouts need to be reduced, guldarnit. After the timeout discussion runs its course, the next biggest topic is likely to be all the fouls at the end of a game, or if not that, the larger lamentation […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
This is not going to take too long, everyone, but it does need to be documented and spelled out in a few sentences and several links you are encouraged to briefly check: Oliver Luck, formerly the athletic director at West Virginia University and a member of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, recently took a […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
UCLA is in the market for a new defensive coordinator. Their last DC, Jeff Ulbrich, famously left for the Atlanta Falcons as quickly as he could after National Signing Day. Under the watch of Jim L Mora, the Bruins defense has seen continued improvement. They have risen in the Pac-12 Total Defense rankings every year […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/18/2015
When we think of game management in team sports, baseball is the first one that comes to mind. After all, the leader of a baseball team isn’t called the “manager” for nothing. Day after day, a manager must make the same kinds of decisions: Lefty-righty or individual matchup? Trust the hot hitter or use a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Monday’s Kansas-West Virginia game is, like many other single games in a season with thousands of them, receding into memory. If Iowa State can surge in the next few weeks, the Mountaineers’ upset of the Jayhawks might affect the final Big 12 standings and become more memorable in the course of time. Yet, for fans […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
Prior to the start of Big Ten play, nobody in their right mind thought that the words “NCAA tournament team” and “Purdue” would even be near the same sentence, let alone in it. However, with just a week and a half left in February, the Boilermakers find themselves in second place in the Big Ten […]
COLUMBIA, MO – JANUARY 08: Jarell Martin #1 of the LSU Tigers grabs a rebound during the game against the Missouri Tigers at Mizzou Arena on January 8, 2015 in Columbia, Missouri. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
0 comments by Scott on 2/17/2015
A lot has been written about who’s on the bubble, and a lot more will be written as we approach the NCAA tournament. One of the things that gets lost in the hurricane of RPI, SOS, good wins, and bad losses is the surprise that we are talking about some schools as being tournament teams […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
This past Sunday stood exactly one month from Selection Sunday. While some teams feel strongly about their candidacies for the NCAA tournament, others do not have the same sentiment and have some work to do. Here is a list of games in the heart of the week that could have some strong bubble implications. TONIGHT […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Assuming Spring actually gets here for the majority of the country (30-degree temperatures in Alabama, snow in North Carolina, DOOM in the upper Midwest) and isn’t just some sort of cruel myth, college football practice will come with it. I motion at this point for it to be called “Extended […]
