Northern Iowa’s Seth Tuttle
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 2/26/2015
While March and April are undoubtedly for the NCAA tournament, February has, at least in recent years, turned into the month for three things: bubble talk, 1-seed talk, and player of the year talk. This year, Wisconsin senior Frank Kaminsky and Duke freshman Jahlil Okafor have been running 1-2 for most of the season in […]
LAS VEGAS, NV – MARCH 12: Joseph Young #3 of the Oregon Ducks drives against Hallice Cooke #3 of the Oregon State Beavers during a first-round game of the Pac-12 Basketball Tournament at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on March 12, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Oregon won 88-74. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
0 comments by Mike Ferguson
Come Sunday, the calendar will turn to March, which marks a special time of year for college basketball fans. As the NCAA tournament is just weeks away from tipping off, most of us know that the usual suspects like Kentucky, Duke and Kansas are sure to be there. For several other teams, the goal right […]
0 comments by Joe Webb
Prior to the games tipping off on Wednesday night, Kansas’ streak was in real jeopardy. The Kansas State Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks 70-63 on Monday night, jeopardizing the decade-long Big 12 regular season title streak that the Jayhawks are holding onto. Prior to Wednesday night, Kansas (22-6, 11-4) and Iowa State (20-6, 10-4) were tied […]
0 comments by Scott on 2/25/2015
This shot by Duke’s Tyus Jones shows just how fickle the sport of basketball can be. The ball touched every last inch of the rim. The shot was halfway down. Yet, none of this counts because the whimsical hand of fate came into play and the ball spun out. Sports are cruel.
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Oh yeah, and Kentucky won again…
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Here’s the info from earlier this year from Knoxnews: The Anderson Training Center contains an indoor field, weight room and other workout facilities, and a dining hall, so players don’t have to leave the building after practice to eat. They only need to walk about two blocks from there to get to the Thornton Athletics […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Every college basketball season, there’s at least one team from either a mid-major conference or a “tweener” conference (a league downscaled to a much lower status by conference realignment) with a bubble resume that’s always inconvenient… but always the same. You know that team. It’s a team which, in non-conference play, makes the most of […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
It’s fascinating to contemplate how much of a difference two years can make. 2013 was the year of the quarterback in the SEC. The conference was oozing with talent with names like Johnny Manziel, Aaron Murray, Zach Mettenberger, A.J. McCarron and Connor Shaw. 2014 was expected to be a down year for quarterback play in […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Our week of RPI case studies continues at The Student Section. If this was a TV show, you’d call it “CSI: RPI,” and the job of investigators is to find out exactly how teams have managed to create such high and glossy-looking numbers from bodies of modest achievement. Tuesday on CSI: RPI, we looked at […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
It’s that time of year. “Seed lines” become a part of the national discussion… and unlike Great Britain, such a term has nothing to do with the Royal Family or its babies. We’re talking brackets, and no seed line is more scrutinized than the top one. Just exactly which teams are in line to get […]
Rick Pitino and Louisville made The American a much stronger league in 2014 compared to the current 2015 version. Sure, SMU leads the conference this season, but it achieved a lot more in the 2014 campaign. Why is 2015 SMU’s RPI at 18 while last season’s team carried an RPI of 53 into Selection Sunday? The answer becomes very obvious as you continue to read this piece… and no, it’s not about winning games, either.
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 2/24/2015
The reason for the dismissal of Chris Jones from the Louisville basketball program is now public, and it isn’t very pretty. According to multiple reports, Jones — who had some issues in the past — texted threats to a woman because she messed up his room. Because of this incident, Jones was dismissed from the program […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Great post today by the Wisconsin Badgers on social media…
0 comments by Matt Zemek
In our overview of the RPI on Monday, we put forth the contention that the RPI must die. We now set about the task of offering case studies to more precisely show why this tool — while not the only one or even the primary one the Selection Committee uses — needs to be blown […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
The Kentucky Wildcats have turned out to be pretty good at hurling a basketball toward the general direction of a hoop this season. They have also managed to be even better at stopping their opponents from doing that same exact thing. All this is not incredibly surprising considering John Calipari lands — approximately — eleventy-billion […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Oh, the NFL Combine, the version of a band touring 30 years after they retired and lost a few members to death and it sells out just because people are desperate for that music. Every year, it gets bigger, and every year, more people complain. It’s cold in Indiana. The […]
