0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/18/2016
No conference received more love from the NCAA tournament’s Selection Committee than the Pac-12. Seven teams were all placed in the higher end of the bracket, meaning that all seven teams were a higher seed in the round of 64. Only the Big 12 joined the Pac in that regard. The lowest seed in both […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/16/2016
The 2016 NCAA Tournament is a time to remember the life and career of Ralph Miller. One of college basketball’s quietly great coaches — a Hall of Famer without a Final Four appearance — no longer walks the earth. Miller died in 2001 at the age of 82. However, if there is a heaven, you […]
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The magic of the NCAA tournament can be captured in so many ways — more than 16, to be sure. Yet, one way in which to express the beauty of this multi-layered event is that it really isn’t one tournament at all. The NCAA tournament essentially consists of three two-game tournaments, three weekends at three […]
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When the bracket for the 2016 NCAA Tournament was unveiled (leaked, more precisely) on Sunday afternoon, you went through the round of 64 wondering which team would win. Before the round of 64 begins, we’re going to engage in a slightly different exercise: identifying which coaches need to win more in the 6-11, 7-10, and […]
0 comments by Matt Clapp on 3/13/2016
CBS expanded their NCAA Tournament Selection Show from a one to two-hour format for 2016, and quickly viewers took notice that the program was very dragged out. The show started at 5:30 PM ET, and did not begin to reveal the tournament field until 5:50 PM with the West Region. After showing us the South […]
