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ACC tournament: Pitt avoids bubble trouble, giving Jamie Dixon a moment to savor

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When any competitor reaches an elevated place, only to fall from that height and spend years trying to climb back up the mountain, frustration is the natural human response. Frustration has characterized much of the past several seasons for Pittsburgh basketball coach Jamie Dixon. Accordingly, Panther fans have not been terribly pleased with their leader. […]

8 Mar 1996: Tim Duncan of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons lays the ball up as Chris Alexander #30 of the Virginia Cavaliers looks on in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Mandatory Credit: Doug

Conference tournament history: 10 facts that might surprise you

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The ACC Tournament began Tuesday afternoon, accelerating the parade of conference tournaments. The flurry of conference tournament basketball will reach its crescendo on Thursday and Friday, arguably the two craziest weekdays of the entire season. The conference tournaments possess an uncertain identity in college basketball. In the ACC, the conference tournament is sacred — largely […]

Bubble plot twists make the First Four a natural source of resolution

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The First Four is about to have its moment. This year, near the end of a season defined largely by the inability of teams to separate themselves from the field, the idea of the First Four seems more relevant and needed than ever before. Plenty of people — myself included — would rather live in […]

Bloody Monday: Monmouth and Valparaiso subject themselves to the tribunal

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Monday, Bloody Monday. The Monmouth Hawks and the Valparaiso Crusaders, two teams with complicated mid-major resumes, could have reduced the size of the bubble had they won their respective conference tournaments. Given that the Wichita State Shockers failed to win the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament over the weekend, the bubble was already growing as March […]

The value of a conference tournament championship? It’s all relative

0 comments by on 3/7/2016

It is a question that’s impossible to ignore during this week on the American sports calendar: How much is a college basketball conference tournament championship worth? We’re not referring to the one-bid conferences here. It’s obvious that winning the SWAC or MEAC or Big West means everything to the schools involved. This is really a […]

15 bracket bits for Championship Week

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Anyone ready for Championship Week? The big bracket is the one announced next Sunday on CBS, a little after 5:30 Eastern time. Before we arrive at that moment, however, we have a week filled with other bracketed tournaments, the conference collisions which will set the selections and seedings for the field of 68. The brackets for […]

Anger amid the madness: 5 stupid things about March in college basketball

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The Madness of March is delightful… but not 100 percent of the time. This is a great month, but precisely because it’s the one month when every American sports fan really cares about college basketball, March is a good time to study the landscape. This is when it’s important to reveal (or magnify) the excesses […]

Roy Williams finishes first in the ACC, and for many, it means nothing

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Roy Williams’s resplendent Hall of Fame career runs through some of the central veins of college basketball history. The sometimes-painful irony of that fact is that it’s all too close to the path carved out by his most famous predecessor and mentor, the late Dean Smith. Williams and North Carolina won another regular season ACC […]

The winning Kennedy campaign: Texas A&M wins first league title since 1986

0 comments by on 3/5/2016

Billy Kennedy and the Texas A&M basketball program both share one fundamental trait on the final weekend of the 2016 regular season: They’re both healthier than they’ve been in years. Just a matter of weeks before he coached his first live game at Texas A&M in 2011, Billy Kennedy was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Kennedy was the […]

The American faces complete chaos if Cincinnati can’t beat SMU

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The American Athletic Conference — so ascendant in football this college sports cycle — has not been as fortunate in basketball. The American way has not been the easy way. SMU would be a 4 or 5 seed in the NCAA tournament, but the Mustangs were barred from the event, so Sunday’s game at Cincinnati […]

Don’t expect change to sweep through the West Coast Conference Tournament

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The West Coast Conference Tournament could be the scene of a memorable event in the coming days, but history tells us to expect one result more than anything else. The WCC Tournament unfurls its quarterfinals on Saturday, before taking a BYU-based break on Sunday and swinging into its semifinals on Monday. Everyone’s waiting to see […]

Weekend bubble guide: the biggest battlegrounds

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The first weekend of March is the last weekend before Selection Sunday. It’s that time of year, so when you begin your Saturday and Sunday, you want to watch the games with maximum bubble implications. We’re here to help. Let’s get right to it. * SATURDAY, MARCH 5 – ALL TIMES EASTERN VANDERBILT at TEXAS […]

10 underappreciated college basketball coaches

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No one wants to be underappreciated. We want our efforts and our skills to receive due recognition. In some cases, we might be appreciated by others, which certainly soothes the soul. Yet, een if it’s obvious that our achievements and acumen are admired, the outside world might never fully know just how much we overcame […]

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