0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/15/2016
The field is set for the 2016 NCAA Tournament. America’s favorite bracketed event begins Tuesday with the First Four. Let’s put before you a number of facts — a sampler platter more than a definitive summary — of the newest edition of the Big Dance: FIRST-TIME DANCERS Championship Week (a fortnight, to be more precise) […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/14/2016
What follows is a review of NCAA tournament selection, seeding and bracketing: SELECTION: TULSA IN, MONMOUTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA OUT This was a year in which the last six to eight teams in the NCAA tournament were all going to possess highly flawed resumes. It was unavoidable that several selections would be disputed. Pundits knew […]
0 comments by Allen Kenney on 3/13/2016
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but heading into the start of the NCAA Tournament, Kansas looks like the best basketball team in the country. This marks the sixth time in the last 10 years that the Jayhawks have landed a No. 1 seed. It’s the second time in that decade-long stretch that […]
0 comments by Matt Clapp
CBS expanded their NCAA Tournament Selection Show from a one to two-hour format for 2016, and quickly viewers took notice that the program was very dragged out. The show started at 5:30 PM ET, and did not begin to reveal the tournament field until 5:50 PM with the West Region. After showing us the South […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Cal-State Bakersfield beat New Mexico State on Saturday night in spectacular fashion. Check out this killer cross-over followed by a game winning three pointer as Cal-State Bakersfield is on it’s way to it’s first ever NCAA Tournament…..
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The NCAA tournament was just right at 64 teams. No one, I think, disputes this. The 64-team bracket — clean and neat, without play-in games or different amounts of tournament rounds for any team — hit the sweet spot. It catapulted the Big Dance to another level in terms of national interest and captivating, emotional […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
You’ve all lost an hour of sleep, but on the day of the NCAA Tournament Selection Show, who needs sleep? Let’s get right to the chase, knowing this piece won’t have the longest shelf life in the history of mankind. The purpose of this piece is twofold: to prepare you for the selection show while […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/12/2016
Saturday involves a stack of conference tournament semifinals and finals which will reshape the bubble picture. Whether those games will clarify or further muddle the bubble picture is anyone’s guess. You have games to watch, so we won’t drone on forever, but here are five bubble bits you need to know heading into Saturday and […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
We can write about the college basketball Friday many of you witnessed… or we can bring it to you in videos. Why not offer a video essay of what March — as a sports month — is all about? Videos convey the magic of an unforgettable Friday better than most words in the English language […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 3/11/2016
Check out this miracle shot by UConn at the end of the third overtime….. Why we love
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Michigan Wolverines have struggled throughout the 2016 college basketball season. Their Friday quarterfinal in the Big Ten Tournament was therefore an embodiment of the season, distilled into one afternoon. Because Michigan was able to pull through one nail-biting game, it is likely — though not absolutely certain — that the Wolverines’ season will be […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Many college basketball seasons are ending this week, and most of them end without hope. For Rutgers or Saint Louis, a season is a black hole which swallows up the head coach and leads to a search for a way out of the darkness. For Georgetown and Boise State, a season was supposed to offer […]
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Many a soul has experienced a miserable night in Las Vegas, the kind of night when nothing is redeemable and everything must start from scratch. The Boise State Broncos know the feeling. * Weeks ago, Boise State lost a game at Colorado State. It should have been awarded a victory, but this shot by James […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/10/2016
Seasons are ending, or at the very least, dreams of the NCAA tournament are ending for schools such as Georgetown and Clemson. The Hoyas and Tigers are joining the hundreds of teams being eliminated from conference tournaments in these first two weeks of March. While 36 teams will make the NCAA field after failing to […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
In the 2008 NCAA Tournament, Fran McCaffery’s Siena Saints thrashed Kevin Stallings and the Vanderbilt Commodores. In that moment, two coaches stood on opposite sides of a March ambush, one the author and one the unfortunate recipient. In each of the past two seasons, McCaffery and Stallings — years removed from their clash in the NCAAs […]
