0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/11/2015
We’ve reviewed the 2015 NCAA Tournament through the prism of teams and conferences. We’ve reviewed the event through the prism of players who left a mark, for better or worse. We’ve reviewed the tournament through the lens of coaches. Now, we conclude our series with a look at the basketball rules and policies that most […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/10/2015
We have reached a pivotal point in the college basketball season. It is the time of the year when some underclassmen forgo a few years of eligibility and declare for the NBA Draft. Because of that many of the teams we saw in the NCAA Tournament will look vastly different next season. It does make […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
What is there to be said about the 2015 NCAA Tournament through the prism of coaches that hasn’t been said already? We already know that Coach K is the coach of our generation… and frankly, in 1992, he had just about established himself as the coach of a previous generation as well. He’s the best […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
Now that the college basketball season is over, here’s a “hidden comparison” — no, not of team resumes (that’s before Selection Sunday), but team rosters. One team was led in every statistical category as a freshman, with three of its top four scorers in the same class. That team also boasted of nine McDonald’s All-Americans […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/9/2015
Sadly, the NCAA Tournament is over. Gone. Gone Baby Gone like that girl Morgan Freeman scooped up in that movie. That does not mean there’s no time left to discuss the fallout of the Big Dance. Not just who won it all, either. Rather, multiple aspects and angles which would go unnoticed or left untouched […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/8/2015
Every NCAA tournament leaves behind its share of expected occurrences, surprises that don’t shock, surprises that ambush the brain, and series of events that cut against the grain of the regular season. In the coming days at The Student Section, we’re going to put this tournament — and the season — in perspective. In separate […]
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 […]
