0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 8/1/2016
So far, we have graded the non-conference schedules of the Big 12, Pac 12 (North and South), and Big Ten (East and West). Now that TSS is up to the ACC and SEC previews, I’m left with a dilemma. For the first three power conferences, I graded each only played three non-conference games. I made […]
CHARLOTTE, NC – DECEMBER 05: Ryan Switzer #3 celebrates with T.J. Logan #8 of the North Carolina Tar Heels after scoring a touchdown against the Clemson Tigers during the Atlantic Coast Conference Football Championship at Bank of America Stadium on December 5, 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
North Carolina Tar Heels 2015 Record: 11-3 Overall, 8-0 in ACC (Lost to 49-38 to Baylor in the Citrus Bowl) 1 Burning Question: Will North Carolina win 10 games for the second straight season? After winning more than 10 games for the first time in almost two decades, the only thing that Tar Heels fans […]
0 comments by TSS Staff on 6/4/2016
We continue our college football discussion today by talking about some of the most important games this fall. This spring and summer, the cast of writers here at the Student Section will discuss what’s going to happen on the gridiron this season. Question: What is the one regular season game that will have the most implications […]
Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh answers questions following the first day of spring practice at a press conference at Schembechler Hall Tuesday. (ALLISON FARRAND / Daily)
0 comments by Bart D on 4/12/2016
Jim Harbaugh is angry (rightly so). The social media mob is too (though as per usual, you question if they really know why). Potential recruits are angry (and they should be the angriest). The SEC and ACC are checking the front door peep hole to make sure no one’s gathering in a mob on their […]
Hugh Durham coaching Georgia at the 1983 Final Four in Albuquerque.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/28/2016
See that man in the cover image? That’s Hugh Durham, selected for induction into the College Basketball Hall of Fame last week. We assessed his career, noting one specific statistic which separates him from all his brothers — past and present — in the coaching fraternity. Bundled inside that statistic (go read the piece) is […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/26/2016
After Thursday’s utter absence of drama, Friday’s heavyweights had to be on guard in the Sweet 16. No problem, said Virginia and North Carolina. The Cavaliers and Tar Heels moved within one step of a 1981 Final Four national semifinal reunion. Meanwhile, Notre Dame and Syracuse both scored surprising victories against the run of play […]
University of North Carolinas coach Dean Smith, right, reacts to the closing moments of their loss to the University of Arkansas in the NCAA Final Four game, Saturday, April 1, 1995, Seattle, Wash. Arkansas won 75-68 to advance to Mondays championship game. (AP Photo/Eric Draper)
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/24/2016
North Carolina and Virginia certainly aren’t boasting about this reality, but it’s there: The Tar Heels and Cavaliers face more pressure than any other Sweet 16 programs. Yes, that includes Oklahoma. Yes, that even includes Kansas. One could conduct a genuine debate about Virginia versus Kansas — that’s a close call — but ultimately, the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/22/2016
The Sweet 16 starts Thursday, initiating the second of three NCAA tournament weekends. Last week, we dug into the history of NCAA tournament bids and wins — that’s the concern of the first weekend. This second weekend reveals the programs that might not stand on the mountaintop, but have certainly been able to climb a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/21/2016
So much more will be said about the 2016 NCAA Tournament today and in the coming days before the Sweet 16, but as we empty out the notebook after the first of three weekends, let’s start with a word about Syracuse. The 2016 Orange are to this tournament what UCLA was to the 2015 edition […]
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
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/8/2016
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 […]
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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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/6/2016
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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/3/2016
The Oregon Ducks have played the second half of this college basketball season without Dylan Ennis, the transfer from Villanova who was supposed to be a vital cog in the Eugene Machine. The Miami Hurricanes ventured to South Bend, Indiana, on Wednesday night to play the Notre Dame Fighting Irish without third-leading scorer Ja’Quan Newton. Oregon […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/24/2016
Boston College lost the game but Garland Owens won the war on the rim with this magnificent put-back dunk….. The best way to head into the locker room is with the Dunk of the Night. https://t.co/okJSR8wwUA — ESPN College BBall (@ESPNCBB)
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/23/2016
March being what it is — namely, the most wildly unpredictable month in American sports — we could soon see a postseason which undoes the themes created by the college basketbal regular season. Don’t count on it. The Miami Hurricanes’ 64-61 win over the Virginia Cavaliers on Monday night in South Florida was a portrait […]
