0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 3/14/2015
For much of the Big Ten season, the purpose of the journey for non-Wisconsin Big Ten teams was to get into the top four and secure a double bye in the conference tournament, which is unfolding this weekend in Chicago. Though it looks odd and seems to give lower-seeded teams a disadvantage by playing an […]
NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 30: Ryan Boatright #11 of the Connecticut Huskies reacts after a turnover by the Michigan State Spartans in the second half of the East Regional Final of the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden on March 30, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
0 comments by Scott
Instead of posting these separately, here are a pair of dramatic finishes from this great night of basketball. We start in Hartford, Connecticut. The UConn Huskies were tied with Cincinnati in the AAC quarterfinals. Everyone who knows anything about college basketball knew that Ryan Boatright would take UConn’s final shot. And take it he did: […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 3/13/2015
The Steve Lavin era at St. John’s has been one filled with tough times, glimmers of hope, and just about everything in between. Because of such things — even though the Johnnies are a lock to make the NCAA Tournament — the athletic department is waiting until after the season to talk about possibly extending […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Our story begins with one of the more fascinating historical facts in the history of college basketball coaching: One of the 12 men to guide at least four different schools to the NCAA tournament once coached at Utah State. Larry Eustachy, currently the (very successful) head coach at Colorado State, has led the Rams to the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Conference tournaments shouldn’t be allowed to overwhelm our perceptions, in the sense that a strong body of work during four months of regular-season competition should not dissolve into the mists of the present tense thanks to one quarterfinal flameout. That’s not fair to the coaches who work around the clock to make their programs better. […]
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Conference tournament action has hit the semifinals for most of the major conferences. There are a few stragglers like the Big Ten and SEC that end on Sunday, but for the most part we have the juicy matchups set. Today was a day of really bad losses by teams trying to make a tournament bid. […]
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Ole Miss was upset in the SEC tournament. This game was on the SEC Network so you might not have seen it. Don’t fear, we here at the Student Section have your back. Things started off pretty exciting. With USC up by two with 2:12 remaining, Stefan Moody of Ole Miss drilled a three for […]
0 comments by Scott on 3/12/2015
The AAC tournament kicks off this afternoon in Hartford, Connecticut. It’s one of the more unusual tournaments in the country because the 6th seeded team is the second favorite to pull down the tournament crown. The Connecticut Huskies are two made buzzer beating three pointers and a Shaq Goodwin shot that bounced 4 times on […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
‘Tis the season in college basketball — the season when seasons end. Once in a great while, a season headed for a dead end suddenly finds new life. Yes, this can apply to an NCAA tournament level of achievement, but only for a blueblood program such as Kentucky. For the Wildcats and other select programs, […]
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You’re going to watch more college basketball on television than you can possibly stand over the next four days, and the cycle will be repeated the following Thursday through Sunday as well during the first (sprawling) weekend of the NCAA tournament. When you watch waves of games — one after the other — it will […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/11/2015
The Big 12 tournament kicks off today, but really does not start in earnest until Thursday with the quarterfinals. The bottom four teams in the league are relegated to the opening round games, which pits Texas against Texas Tech, and Kansas State against TCU, with the Longhorns needing at least a win to feel good […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
If you follow college football on a regular basis, at least as something more than a merely casual fan, you know that one of the many issues connected to the arrangement of the sport is the length of conference schedules. The SEC — as the most prominent conference in college football — has bandied about […]
LSU stopped Vanderbilt on Saturday. The Tigers aren’t stopping in their pursuit of an NCAA berth, which is picking up momentum.
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One of the biggest topics surrounding Championship Week is bid thieves, or — for people who don’t like that term — surprising autobid winners. These are teams that don’t have a case for an at-large NCAA tournament bid; they can only make it if they win their conference tournament. What we are going to do […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
The world is a much smaller place than it was to our parents. Everything is a known commodity now or, at least, thought to be. Very few things, events and people get through the cracks. It doesn’t really matter if it’s a good or bad thing either. All things, with the ease of accessibility the […]
NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 30: Ryan Boatright #11 of the Connecticut Huskies reacts after a turnover by the Michigan State Spartans in the second half of the East Regional Final of the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden on March 30, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
0 comments by Mike Ferguson on 3/10/2015
Since 1999, no school has won more men’s (or women’s for that matter) basketball national championships than the University of Connecticut. In less than two decades, the Huskies have claimed four men’s titles with last season’s being the most unlikely. Connecticut went from a No. 7 seed and a popular pick for being upset in […]
