0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/6/2015
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – APRIL 04: Sam Dekker #15 of the Wisconsin Badgers celebrates after defeating the Kentucky Wildcats during the NCAA Men’s Final Four Semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 4, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Wisconsin defeated Kentucky 71-64. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
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We wrote about it multiple times this week — the memory of the 1991 Final Four in Indianapolis loomed over the heavyweight national semifinal on Saturday night between Wisconsin and Kentucky. Nearly a quarter of a century since Duke ruined UNLV’s unbeaten season in Indianapolis, Wisconsin traveled to the Hoosier heartland to make its own […]
0 comments by Scott on 4/4/2015
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – APRIL 04: Jahlil Okafor #15 of the Duke Blue Devils reacts after a play in the second half as Mike Krzyzewski looks on against the Michigan State Spartans during the NCAA Men’s Final Four Semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 4, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
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Saturday evening in Indianapolis, the Road To The Final Four had already ended. The roads connecting college basketball’s past and present continued to flow. The direction of those roads led to Durham, not East Lansing. Mike Krzyzewski and Tom Izzo had met before in the Final Four — in 1999 in St. Petersburg, Florida, with […]
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0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/3/2015
Thursday, we took a stroll down Memory Lane and looked at one of two Final Fours with a very strong connection to the 2015 Final Four. The 1991 Final Four evoked an obvious UNLV-Kentucky comparison across 24 years, but there was so much more that tied together the past and the present. The other Final […]
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We’ve spent all week waiting for the Final Four to start, and the anticipated event is almost here. Yet, when Saturday’s national semifinals end, the turnaround to the national championship game will be very brief. Most of this week has rightly been spent focusing on the national semifinals, but let’s give you at least one […]
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The Final Four features three of the top four Ken Pom teams for the first time since 2012. In the human polls, Kentucky was No. 1 the entire season, Duke never left the top five, and Wisconsin slipped as low as 7th. Michigan State is 15th in Ken Pom. The Spartans were ranked for five […]
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I promise that I am not doing this in an effort to try to be contrarian or cute, but Texas bringing Shaka Smart aboard doesn’t excite me in the ways it seems to have stirred the general public. This is the case even though almost every other aspect of this situation is telling me that I […]
ANAHEIM, CA – MARCH 29: Head coach Bo Ryan of the Wisconsin Badgers celebrates after he cuts down the net after defeating the Arizona Wildcats 64-63 in overtime during the West Regional Final of the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at the Honda Center on March 29, 2014 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
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Of the four coaches who led their teams to the Final Four in Indianapolis, he’s the only one without a national championship at the Division I level. Come Saturday night, Bo Ryan will face perhaps his greatest challenge as he leads his Wisconsin Badgers against a team chasing history. At 38-0, Kentucky is seeking to […]
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