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College Cagers and Nicolas Cage: Stop Using College Basketball’s Grandest Stage to Push Bad Logic

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College basketball was apparently broken. Then, because magic happens in March, it is now fixed. You have seen the tweets, Facebook messages, and other social media posts by lovers of the game: “College basketball is fine” or the sarcastic “But college basketball needs fixing” messages after retweeting the great rating the Thursday games brought CBS […]

BeeJay Anya of NC State Ends LSU’s Season

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BeeJay Anya hit this hook shot, that touched every single part of the rim, to knock LSU out of the NCAA tournament: The Wolfpack trailed by 14 points, 62-48, with 9 minutes remaining. LSU would score 3 the rest of the way as NC State closed 18-3. Anya made a big tip in on the […]

LOUISVILLE, KY – MARCH 19: Bryce Alford #20 of the UCLA Bruins celebrates after defeating Southern Methodist Mustangs during the second round of the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournamenat at the KFC YUM! Center on March 19, 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

UCLA’s Miraculous Escape and SMU’s Gut-Punch Loss: The Call Was Correct, the Rule Horrible

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Madness. It’s not just a word for March, it’s a word for the SMU Mustangs and the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area after their team exited the NCAA tournament in a manner which defies description. You know the general story: SMU, up by seven with a little over a minute left, watched UCLA’s Bryce Alford hit […]

JACKSONVILLE, FL – MARCH 19: The Georgia State Panthers celebrate after the Panthers win 57-56 against the Baylor Bears in the second round of the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena on March 19, 2015 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

Georgia State Shocks Baylor, And It Gets Late Early For The Big 12

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Last March, Oklahoma State — with Marcus Smart, a top-six NBA draft pick — was the eighth seed in the Big 12 tournament. That eighth seed in the Big 12 Conference was higher than the No. 9 seed the Cowboys received in the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Seeing Oklahoma State as the 8 seed in an […]

LOUISVILLE, KY – MARCH 19: Denzell Watts #1 and Nick Norton #2 of the UAB Blazers celebrate after defeating the Iowa State Cyclones during the second round of the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournamenat at the KFC YUM! Center on March 19, 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Iowa State Of Disbelief: UAB Pulls Off A Not-So-Ordinary Upset

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They call it March Madness for a reason, everyone. The magic of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament is always attached to a certain kind of insanity. The endlessly, annually amazing capacity of this tournament is not that it surprises us. We know that weird things are going to happen with 19- and 20-year-olds […]

2015 NCAA Tournament Preview: West Region

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Only two of the best three teams in the nation according to the Ken Pom ratings is going to go to the Final Four. That’s because there is a potential battle of behemoths looming in the Elite 8 between the Wisconsin Badgers and Arizona Wildcats. All season long the Badgers have eviscerated opponents with the […]

2015 NCAA Tournament Preview: South Region

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The South Region of the NCAA Tournament bracket is one that has drawn the most scoffs. Duke was comfortably a number 1 seed, even though they were not the ACC regular season or tournament champions. On top of that, they were placed in a region with the weakest 4 seed in Georgetown and a 5 […]

Mid-Majors still slighted in seedings as the NCAA tournament arrives

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Mid-Major conference teams are still clearly the Rodney Dangerfield of the NCAA Tournament brackets. They just don’t get any respect. The only non-Power Five conference team that received a seed above a five seed was Gonzaga… and do the Zags really count as a non-power team these days? Northern Iowa lost three… yes, three… games […]

2015 NCAA Tournament Preview: East Region

0 comments by on 3/18/2015

The East region of the NCAA tournament is home to the most unlikely number 1 seed, the Villanova Wildcats. Villanova wasn’t thought of to be one of the elite teams at the beginning of the year. Nova wasn’t even in the preseason top 10. Once the season kicked off though, the Wildcats asserted dominance over […]

NCAA Tournament: 5 Favorite First-Round Bets

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Countless recreational gamblers are making their annual pilgrimage to the desert this week, ready to lay down cash they will likely never see again on basketball games played by 19-year-olds they probably couldn’t pick out of a lineup. If that sounds like your idea of a good time, might I suggest these five wagers in […]

Mission Improbable: 6 Keys to Clipping Kentucky

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Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Disclaimer: I don’t think anyone will beat Kentucky. I’m not sure if you took away any four of Kentucky’s players anyone would defeat them. This isn’t meant to be some referendum on how there’s someone, somewhere out there that will do so. They’re the best team in the nation, and […]

LSU’s Johnny Jones didn’t manage the final minute of a game as poorly as Mark Fox did on Tuesday night… but he still came up short in terms of meeting basic standards of competence.

The Most Important Round-of-64 Games In The 2015 NCAA Tournament

0 comments by on 3/17/2015

The First Four is underway, but the round of 64 (your ever-available way to avoid using incorrect round-based terminology) doesn’t start until Thursday. Which round-of-64 games are the most important ones? Before giving you the top five, a word about UCLA and SMU. One could very easily include this game on the list as a […]

2015 NCAA Tournament Preview: Midwest Region

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Action in the Midwest Region begins tonight with the 16 seed play-in game between Hampton and Manhattan. The winner of that game has the unenviable task of being Kentucky’s only guaranteed victim of March. If Kentucky was the 1 seed that was upset by the 16 seed, it would be the greatest upset in the […]

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