0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 3/15/2015
The Oliver Purnell era is over at DePaul. This comes to the surprise to no one with a fully functioning brain. Purnell’s Blue Demons have been cellar-dwellers in most of his years with the program, with the only exception being this season, when the team was in first place of the Big East Conference — for […]
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Selection Sunday has arrived and we have just five Conference Championship Games left. Here’s today’s schedules of games… SEC Championship Game (Nashville, Tn; 1 PM, ESPN) Arkansas Razorbacks (26-7, 13-5) vs Kentucky Wildcats (33-0, 18-0) Atlantic 10 Championship Game (Brooklyn, NY; 1 PM, CBS) VCU Rams (25-9, 12-6) vs Dayton Flyers (25-7, 13-5) Sun Belt […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/14/2015
In what was the best possible result for the Ivy League this year, the league’s two best teams went into a one-game playoff knowing that while both teams could be cinderellas in a week’s time, only one of them would get the chance to prove it. Harvard and Yale did not disappoint, with the Crimson pulling […]
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Stony Brook was looking for it’s first ever bid the NCAA Tournament but it was not to be as Albany got a long rebound and nailed a three-pointer for the win… So close to its first-ever NCAA tourney, Stony Brook lost on a buzzer-beater as Albany fans stormed the court. WATCH: http://t.co/pmMF9rrcZa — ESPN (@espn)
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March Madness is in the air and after knocking off the Virginia Cavaliers yesterday, here’s how North Carolina celebrated…
Virginia’s legitimacy was questioned during the 2014 ACC season. The Cavaliers are not doubted as much this year, but if they falter against Duke on Saturday, they certainly will be viewed with fresh skepticism.
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A tradition unlike any other: Single conference-tournament results unleashing an explosion of debate about No. 1 seeds. No, that’s not Jim Nantz — that’s just reality. Every year, there’s at least one conference tournament result, typically a quarterfinal or semifinal, which ignites a debate about the No. 1 seeds in the upcoming NCAA tournament. Friday […]
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Championships hang in the balance on this great Saturday. The ACC, Big East, Big 12, Mountain West and Pac-12, as well as some smaller conferences, will determine their league champions. The A-10, AAC, SEC and Big Ten unfurl their semifinals. After Friday night’s great night of basketball, today is poised to be as good. While […]
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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 […]
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A great day of college basketball action ended with a monster shot by Oregon’s Joseph Young to send the Ducks past Utah to the Pac 12 final. Take a look: The Ducks will meet up with Arizona tomorrow night for the Pac 12 crown. From where this Oregon team was at the beginning of 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)
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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 Scott on 3/13/2015
In a game that featured LaSalle coach John Giannini yelling at the officials that they were protecting the number 1 seed and that his team would still win away, the Davidson Wildcats finished on a 10-0 to survive and advance in the A-10 tournament. While LaSalle didn’t get any help from the stripes, Davidson finished […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
