0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/9/2016
Let’s get two things out of the way, just to frame this article the way it’s meant to be received: First, what follows will not be an argument for an eight-team playoff. It will reaffirm what was said here at our partner (and hub) site, The Comeback, just after the New Year’s Day bowls ended. […]
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Monday night in Columbia, South Carolina, the Connecticut women’s basketball program entered its 22nd 1-versus-2 game. The Huskies’ record in their first 21 such encounters: 18-3. The 2016 edition of the Huskies didn’t exactly have an easy task in front of them in the attempt to push that record to 19-3. UConn faced an unbeaten […]
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It’s true that in a 30-game regular season, single nights or weekend afternoons don’t fully determine postseason destinations. When experts say that “Game X is an elimination game” or “Game Y is a must-win,” it’s true that the weight of a season and all its hopes fall upon that one contest. However, such a perception […]
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The Wisconsin Badgers could leave no doubt about their NCAA tournament credentials in the coming weeks. Greg Gard — filling in for his mentor, the esteemed Bo Ryan — will take a huge step toward locking up permanent status as UW’s head coach if he can win just one of four upcoming road games: at […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
The ball goes through the hoop with just 1.9 seconds left in the game and the Oklahoma Sooners moved to 20-3 and the Texas Longhorns fall to 16-8….. Hield's the hero. Buddy drains the game-winning three for an
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 Allen Kenney on 2/8/2016
It comes up nearly every time a high-profile program runs seriously afoul of the NCAA’s Byzantine set of rules and regulations governing the multibillion-dollar college sports industrial complex. Scholarships get docked, postseason bans are implemented, and complaints start ringing out about such a hamfisted system of justice. Not surprisingly, college hoops legend Rick Pitino became […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/7/2016
Here’s a great video that Notre Dame put together about their big win over the No. 2 ranked Tar Heels of North Carolina…. Go INSIDE Our Locker Room.Go INSIDE The Court Storm. Go INSIDE The Game with IRISH ACCESS from our win vs. #2 UNC.https://t.co/xGq8qXxXOi — Notre Dame MBB (@NDmbb)
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/5/2016
Fresh off of National Signing Day, the Kentucky Wildcats took to social media to introduce their new uniforms to the world….. A look a the new white uniforms. #BBN A photo posted by ukfootball (@ukfootball) on Feb 5, 2016 at 7:59am PST New Anthracite jerseys. #BBN A photo posted by ukfootball (@ukfootball) on Feb 5, […]
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This is the second part in a recurring series profiling college basketball programs in New England. The second stop is a place where basketball and winning have never been synonymous, but a new coach is working to change that. … When it comes to basketball, few programs own a more barren history than the University […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/4/2016
Tom Herman and the Houston Cougars had a very good National Signing Day. Even though they had a great day, they did let one recruit slip away to Florida. Maybe this was them taking out their frustration of that “flip” on their poor fax machine….
BATON ROUGE, LA – NOVEMBER 28: Head coach Les Miles of the LSU Tigers celebrates after defeating the Texas A&M Aggies 19-7 at Tiger Stadium on November 28, 2015 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
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By any standard, LSU’s National Signing Day was a mixed bag. Sure, the Tigers landed five-star corner Kristian Fulton, but that was just the cherry on top of a loaded defensive-back class at a position which already was a relative strength on the depth chart. Elsewhere, LSU lost out on key four-star linebacker Erick Fowler […]
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Sure, John Calipari has never had a recruiting class ranked lower than second at Kentucky. It’s also true that whenever Calipari has struggled, he has usually been able to right the ship before it was too late. This dynamic was never more apparent than in 2014, when Calipari took an eighth-seeded team to the national championship […]
Texas head coach Charlie Strong celebrates with the Golden Hat after defeating Oklahoma, 24-17, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. (Brandon Wade/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS via Getty Images)
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You don’t change the paradigm of a program on National Signing Day alone. Winning games between the lines, claiming titles, changing a team’s culture — that’s the stuff which remakes the program, or in Texas’s case, restores it. However, bringing in big-time talent is almost always the first step toward achieving the above goals. Texas […]
0 comments by Mike Abelson on 2/3/2016
Providence College lost to DePaul in Chicago on Tuesday night. Just let that fact sink in. This was the 11th-ranked team in the country losing to a program that hasn’t won more than 12 games in a season since 2007. What does that make Providence? Providence did lose the Big East’s leading scorer, Ben Bentil, […]
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The composite 247 Sports No. 1 player in the nation, defensive tackle Rashan Gary has committed to Michigan. DT Rashan Gary commits to Michigan
