0 comments by Scott on 2/23/2015
Georgia Tech’s Tadric Johnson put a highlight end to the first half with this dunk over Louisville’s Chinanu Onuaku. Georgia Tech currently leads Louisville 24-17 at the half. Post Chris Jones life is not going well for the Cards.
Jim Larranaga is pursuing an ACC regular season championship. If he beats Notre Dame on Wednesday, he should be able to celebrate.
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With the bubble season ramping up as the conference tournaments approach, here is a list of “bubbly” games to watch this week in college basketball: TUESDAY Texas A&M at Arkansas – Texas A&M has won four of its six games in February, after losing only two games in January. One of those was an overtime […]
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We have, apparently, officially reached the point in the season when job security will become an issue at multiple programs. No, there is no need to worry about your favorite master fresh-fry dispenser. Rather, it has a little more to do with the leader of free labor young men in college basketball — which brings us […]
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It’s beginning to be that time of year, sports fans. Selection Sunday’s just 20 days away. You’re going to see this acronym a lot over the next three weeks: RPI. The Ratings Percentage Index is not the only tool used by the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee, but it is one tool, and the […]
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The realization should dawn on you by now: The college basketball regular season is almost over. This is the final week of regular-season play for many smaller (one-bid) conferences, and there are only two weeks left before the power conferences begin their tournaments. We’re only 20 days away from Selection Sunday, six days away from […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/22/2015
One of the slower and less compelling Saturdays of the college basketball season — almost certainly the last Saturday that will fail to excite the senses — still produced some significant developments. This was a Saturday on which the season seemed to take one big breath before the frenetic stretch run. What happened during this […]
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In nearly 13 minutes of game time on Saturday night, the Arizona Wildcats were outscored 24-0 by the UCLA Bruins. UCLA outscored Arizona 7-0 in the first six-plus minutes of the game, and then slapped a 17-0 run on Sean Miller’s team to start the second half. Naturally, these two runs — accompanied by […]
0 comments by Bart D on 2/21/2015
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect In 1998, there was an “X-Files” episode in which David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson encountered a situation where some telemarketer basically saw his boss as a giant insect who was out to kill people. Duchovny’s character likened the situation to other assumed delusional people in the past who had similar […]
The Big 12’s problem is that it doesn’t merely have one problem. The league has to make numerous adjustments, from non-conference scheduling to the conference title game issue to the split-championship issue which did not help the league’s cause. Oh, and the league might want to consider expanding IF the 12-team requirement for conference title games is upheld in April.
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 2/20/2015
The NCAA is widely considered the big bad beast of ineptness in the realm of college sports. Not only is it trendy to pick on all things governing-body related, it is expected if you care about anything that deals with their fictional ideal of amateurism that you pile on them as often as possible. However, […]
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Coming off Wednesday night’s loss to Arizona State and Stanford’s recent loss to Colorado, the Pac-12 is in danger of getting as many teams in the NCAA Tournament as the Missouri Valley Conference: two. While Arizona and Utah are locks to get in, there is not another team in the conference which can feel confident […]
PITTSBURGH, PA – JANUARY 25: Jamel Artis #1 of the Pittsburgh Panthers reacts near the end of the game against the Louisville Cardinals during the game at Petersen Events Center on January 25, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)
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We’re roughly two weeks away from the start of conference tournaments. For teams on the bubble, they must play well now. A number of teams notched signature victories this week, but for some, there is still work to do. Teams in all caps are projected to be conference champions. Conference winners will account for 32 […]
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The recent talk of making freshmen ineligible for men’s basketball and football got a little more serious Thursday, when word leaked out that the Big Ten actually is giving the idea some thought. Given that commissioners Bob Bowlsby of the Big 12 and Larry Scott of the Pac-12 also have discussed the idea lately, it would […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/19/2015
When a discussion on “ways to improve college basketball” develops, the first thing you’ll likely hear is that timeouts need to be reduced, guldarnit. After the timeout discussion runs its course, the next biggest topic is likely to be all the fouls at the end of a game, or if not that, the larger lamentation […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/18/2015
When we think of game management in team sports, baseball is the first one that comes to mind. After all, the leader of a baseball team isn’t called the “manager” for nothing. Day after day, a manager must make the same kinds of decisions: Lefty-righty or individual matchup? Trust the hot hitter or use a […]
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Monday’s Kansas-West Virginia game is, like many other single games in a season with thousands of them, receding into memory. If Iowa State can surge in the next few weeks, the Mountaineers’ upset of the Jayhawks might affect the final Big 12 standings and become more memorable in the course of time. Yet, for fans […]
