0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/1/2016
In the course of time, the Big 12-SEC Challenge could very easily become an event which reshapes several college basketball seasons. We could sit here in April and realize how much this midseason event — staged in the middle of the conference season — altered the trajectory of a crazy college basketball campaign. Right now, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/29/2016
Yes, Saturday’s Big 12-SEC Challenge is a day for improving resumes and gaining NCAA tournament leverage. LSU, Florida, Georgia, Texas Tech, Texas, Vanderbilt — they could all significantly improve their standing to varying degrees. It is a day to burnish the nitty-gritty profile, with January about to end and March coming ever closer. However, the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Big 12-SEC challenge is not a new thing in the world of college basketball. Conference challenges have become a regular part of the sport. The Big 12-SEC version has been around for a few years, following a six-year period in which the SEC paired up with the previous (old-school) version of the Big East. […]
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0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/21/2016
When the NCAA tournament ends, Jim Nantz tells us about “a tradition unlike any other.” Before the NCAA tournament begins, we are being brought in touch with the possibility that this edition of March Madness could be unlike any other. After Wednesday night’s events, which featured Michigan State’s home-court loss to surging Nebraska (the Huskers […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/5/2016
The Kansas Jayhawks don’t wear any green. They don’t play on a parquet floor. They don’t have a shamrock in their logo. Yet, they really and truly are the Red Auerbach-era Boston Celtics of college basketball. Monday night’s enthralling 109-106 triple-overtime victory over the Oklahoma Sooners, in the 40th 1-versus-2 game in college basketball history, […]
0 comments by The Student Section on 11/16/2015
The Student Section convenes the first part of a college basketball media roundtable, with help from our partners at Awful Announcing. The second installment of this roundtable will be published Tuesday at AA.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/11/2015
It’s easy to simply say, “The NCAA Tournament,” when asked what’s best about college basketball. However, the sport which will once again become a part of our lives through early April is about more than just the Dance. Yes, casual sports fans view college basketball as a March-only entity, but those who love the sport […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/10/2015
The new college basketball season begins with a number of amazing streaks intact. In two seasons, Kansas is likely to surpass North Carolina (27, from 1975 through 2001) for the most consecutive NCAA tournament appearances. The Jayhawks sit at 26 and show no signs of slowing down. Currently, Stephen F. Austin is working on a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/27/2015
As of Sunday morning — September 27, 2015 — the college football season is still relatively young. A year ago, a wild September was followed by a stability-bearing October and a not-that-crazy November. The march to the first College Football Playoff certainly wasn’t free of clutter or controversy, but that controversy was mostly the making […]
When Bill Callahan came to Nebraska as head coach midway through the first decade of the new century, Nebraska’s defense regularly surrendered video-game point totals. When Colorado posted 62 against Nebraska on Thanksgiving weekend in 2001, the result was hard to put into words… much like “Germany 7, Brazil 1.”
0 comments by Mike Ferguson on 9/2/2015
With the college football season set to get underway Thursday night, a number of schools have dreams of a conference and in some cases, perhaps a national championship. For some teams however, just making a bowl games would constitute a successful season. Here are the 10 teams from Power 5 conferences with the longest bowl […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 8/20/2015
Once again, ESPN and its many channels will be broadcasting (more than) 24 hours of college basketball in a row to begin the 2015-’16 season. This will be the eighth year of the tip off marathon and ESPN, and at first glance it looks like one of the best lineups (if not the best lineup) […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 7/15/2015
The United States won its first gold medal at the World University Games since 2005 on Monday in an effort spearheaded by the Kansas Jayhawks (minus Devonte Graham, who was injured, and Svi Mykhailiuk, Cheick Diallo, and Dwight Coleby, who are not American citizens) plus Nic Moore of SMU and Julian DeBose of Florida Gulf […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 5/18/2015
The coming college basketball season has finalized a schedule for the latest Big 12-SEC Challenge. Naturally, the fact that Kentucky and Kansas will meet is the headline story from the event. Wildcats-Jayhawks might receive more publicity than any other non-conference game on the road to the 2016 NCAA Tournament. John Calipari, Bill Self, and two […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/6/2015
John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats didn’t win the 2015 national championship, but Calipari won in Lexington in 2012. His groups of great Kentucky teams managed to bring home at least one title when they had a window of opportunity. Several memorably great groups of teams never did bring home a single national crown. On […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/2/2015
If you were to mention the 1991 Final Four this week, the first reaction you’d get from every college basketball fan over 35 years old would be something to the effect of, “Oh, you’re going to compare 1991 UNLV to 2015 Kentucky, right?” The comparison between those Runnin’ Rebels and these Wildcats is, of course, […]
