Competitive Collegiate Cousins: 10 Pairs of Similar Football And Basketball Teams From 2014-2015

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/20/2015

The 2015 college basketball season just ended. The 2014 college football season is a more distant memory, but football owns more of a hold on the American sports fan’s imagination. Before every waking thought turns to the 2015 football season, why not explore the similarities of various football and basketball seasons from the current college […]

March Madness, Then April Assessments: Ranking The High-Profile Coaching Hires

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/13/2015

Our college basketball coverage at The Student Section winds down this week. We’ll have occasional posts during the spring and summer, but this week marks our last concerted attempt to make sense of the just-concluded season and look ahead to November. Let’s start with an assessment of the high-profile coaching hires in college hoops. One […]

Gregg Marshall Stays At Wichita State: A Fluke, Or A Sign of Things To Come?

0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/2/2015

It is officially official: Gregg Marshall will return to coach the Wichita State Shockers thanks to a new deal that will pay the coach $3 million per year. This is after rumors swirled around the idea that Alabama would fork over $3 million to scoop up the highly sought-after coach. The fact that Marshall is […]

25 Years Ago, The Best Sweet 16 Of All Time Captured America’s Imagination

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/25/2015

On the eve of the 2015 Sweet 16, there’s nothing wrong with reliving any high-quality Sweet 16 from the NCAA tournament’s glorious past. Yet, this just so happens to be the 25th anniversary of the 1990 Sweet 16. The 1997 Sweet 16 — with three overtime games and Arizona’s monumental upset of Kansas — could […]

NCAA Tournament: The 5 Biggest Opening-Weekend Shockers In Recent Years

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/23/2015

North Carolina State’s upset of Villanova marked the most significant upset from the round of 32 in this year’s NCAA tournament. Seeing a tournament upset authored by Wolfpack coach Mark Gottfried and his N.C. State team reminds us that the man and the school have both participated in other significant first-weekend upsets in recent NCAA […]

A Rough Business: Conference Tournament Losers Show How Difficult It Is To Sustain Success

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/13/2015

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. […]

Grant’s Tomb: It’s Time For Alabama Basketball To Move On

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/28/2015

The circumstances under which Anthony Grant became the head basketball coach at the University of Alabama are, weirdly enough, the very reasons why the Crimson Tide need to start fresh with a new basketball coach at season’s end. Following a loss at home on Tuesday night to Billy Donovan and the Florida Gators, it’s clear […]

The Top 8 Court Designs in College Basketball

0 comments by Steve Fetch on 1/22/2015

When I watch a college basketball game, I’m not one of those people who pays much attention to who is announcing the game, what the scorebug on the TV looks like, or most other aesthetics. However, one thing I do love to see is the different court designs. Perhaps that’s why I hate how the […]

4 College Football Playoff Favorites For 2015, Plus 4 Teams To Watch

0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/15/2015

With the recently completed College Football Playoff crowning the clear best team in the nation, the excitement around college football is erupting, surging to all-time highs… at least as a measurement of cable television viewers. With this in mind, what better time to think about the four teams that will compete for a title next […]

The BCS And The SEC West Tell Us How College Football Can Improve Its Postseason… And How Much It Failed Us Over The Past Decades

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/14/2015

The 2014 college football season, now over, is only beginning to be processed. This was a major transitional moment in the sport’s 146-year history. It marked the passing of the baton from the Bowl Championship Series — 16 years of tumult and upheaval — to the College Football Playoff. We all had a sense this […]

Urban Meyer’s Legacy And Ohio State’s Fortunes Intersect On Championship Monday In Texas

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/12/2015

Oregon coach Mark Helfrich will have a chance to steal the show on Monday night in Arlington, Texas, in the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship Game. However, there is no question that as gameday arrives and the Ducks prepare to face the Buckeyes, the center of attention is Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer. […]

Before Ohio State and Oregon Take Center Stage, Spare A Thought For Florida State… No, Really

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/11/2015

For many of us, the scales even out in life if we live long enough. The Kansas City Royals eventually made the World Series again. The San Francisco Giants, with no World Series titles since coming to the Bay Area in the late 1950s, then won three in the past five seasons. Bo Ryan finally […]

The 10 Biggest Stories From The 38 Bowls

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/7/2015

The bowls are over. What are the biggest headlines to emerge in these 38 games? We pared the list down to 10: * 10 – DIVISIONS CREATE DIFFERENT WORLDS The Mountain West’s Mountain Division, thanks to bowl wins by Utah State and Air Force, produced four teams with 10 or more wins. The Mountain West […]

Sugar Bowl: Alabama falls after failing to establish traditional strengths

0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/2/2015

For the Alabama football program, gritty defense and making plays when they mattered the most on that side of the ball have been staples in the Nick Saban era over the past decade or so. Success in these and other realms of competition have allowed the Tide to earn BCS national championships in the 2009, […]

The 15 Most Significant Sugar Bowls

0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/31/2014

Before the 1978 Sugar Bowl, Bear Bryant had Woody Hayes try on his houndstooth hat (above). Nick Saban doesn’t wear houndstooth hats, and Urban Meyer doesn’t wear a white button-down shirt with a red tie and black pants. Yet, when Ohio State and Alabama meet on New Year’s Night in New Orleans, they’ll recall the […]

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