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Ready or not, college basketball is on the horizon. Most fans, even basketball diehards, barely pay attention until nearly Thanksgiving. But this season, there are plenty of good reasons to turn your eyes away from football (even briefly) to check …
We’ve reached the end of college basketball’s season and March was just as mad as we’ve come to expect. This tournament featured the biggest upset of all-time, a 98-year-old nun leading a Cinderella story to the Final Four, and plenty of …
The Final Four is college basketball’s greatest spectacle. All of March Madness, with all the juicy storylines and incredible game-play, leads to this one city and one event. The semifinals give us two chances at magic, though this year the games …
Next weekend treats us to the biggest stage of college basketball: the Final Four. We now have four teams and two games set in stone, ripe for analysis all week long. There are a pile of storylines to break down. Three of the coaches are among the …
With wins on Saturday, Loyola Chicago and Michigan punched tickets to the Final Four in San Antonio. Those two teams represent something bigger than themselves in this tournament. Loyola is the face of every Cinderella. Michigan was good all season, …
The Elite Eight is set and we’re just seven games away from crowning a champion. College basketball is coming down to the wire, with a few more tricks up its sleeve. The Sweet Sixteen offered a litany of competitive games, yet the Elite Eight offers …
It’s not every year that the Sweet Sixteen venue days are split by each side of the bracket, like this year. Thursday treated us to four games between the eight teams still alive on the left side of the bracket. One of the eight teams we saw Thursday …
The Sweet Sixteen is so perfectly timed in the college basketball world. We spent last weekend ingesting unhealthy amounts of hoops at all hours of the day, cutting back on sleep, healthy habits, and appropriate levels of emotion. We all need the …
As a college basketball diehard, I’m inclined to call this past weekend the best of any four-day stretch in all of sports. Scripting even half of what happened in the 40 games we’ve just send would prove impossible. We saw history made (in more ways …
The first round of the NCAA Tournament collects tons of attention and praise as one of the premier events in sports. The second round is relatively underappreciated by comparison, though based on what happened Saturday, that may change. Between the …
If you had any doubts about whether or not March would truly go mad, Friday answered those doubts with authority. We saw close games up and down the slate of games, highlighted by a historic upset. For thirteen consecutive hours Friday, the NCAA …
There’s nothing like the anticipation of the first day of March Madness. I shake and squirm all morning until the first game tips off, before settling in to more than 12 hours of high-level basketball. With so many games and such rich storylines, …
It’s funny to see the word “expert” next to my picks in this post. No one is a bracket expert. If anyone claims to be, March Madness will gladly give them a swift kick off of their pedestal the next chance it gets. We can all predict an upset or miss …
The brackets are finally here! We can toss away all of our conjecture about who is in and who is out. No longer do we need to argue about where each team will go or what the match-ups might look like. We have an NCAA Tournament bracket to breakdown, …
Rooting for a team on the NCAA Tournament bubble is a unique experience. Unlike any other sport, teams on the fringes of success pray for a chance to keep playing, with only so much control over the situation. Sure, they could win their conference …
With a shade over a week remaining until Selection Sunday, teams near the top of the bracket and on the bubble all across the country are looking to make a case to the tournament committee. Conference play is wrapping up and will come to a head …
