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Ohio State head coach Thad Matta and Dayton coach Archie Miller had to have known they were in for a close game on Thursday when they showed up wearing the same clothes. The coaches got together to chat for a bit before the opening tip, and Matta …
Ohio State’s Shannon Scott committed a bad foul with 26.3 seconds left in the Buckeyes’ first-round game against Dayton (yes, it’s a first-round game, I don’t consider the play-ins first-round games) in the NCAA Tournament on …
If you watched any of the Round of 64 game between Wisconsin and American University on Thursday, you may have noticed something a bit bizarre. American U. center Tony Wroblicky shoots his free throws with one hand. No, he doesn’t take his …
The unofficial start of the NCAA Tournament (we won’t count the play-in games) is one of the best days of the calendar year to leave work early. We all know the March Madness drama waits for no one, and some of the afternoon games on Thursday …
President Barack Obama completed his official 2014 NCAA Tournament on Wednesday during a segment ESPN has so cleverly labeled “Barack-etology.” As usual, the president did not go with many shocking upsets or surprise Cinderella stories. …
For the first time since he actually starting paying attention to sports, Del put together an extremely respectable NCAA Tournament bracket last year. Picking Louisville to win the national championship and riding Michigan to the Final Four netted …
LB is wasting no time getting his bracket picks out for the 2014 NCAA Tournament. You asked for them? You got ’em. Unlike the last two years where there was a pretty strong favorite to win it all — and both times those teams delivered …
Louisville as a four seed may be the biggest joke of the NCAA Tournament. Prior to the 2014 NCAA Tournament draw being announced, Louisville coach Rick Pitino said his team looked like a No. 1 seed, even though he knew his Cardinals wouldn’t …
SMU is considered one of the biggest snubs from the 2014 NCAA Tournament along with Wisconsin Green Bay. SMU went 23-9 overall, 12-6 in conference play, and was ranked in the top 25 as recently as a week ago. But the tournament committee obviously …
If you’re like me, you want to have every piece of information available to you when making your NCAA tournament picks. One of the key things I like to look at when making my picks for the first two rounds of the tournament is location and team …
Wichita State, which went undefeated in the regular season and won their conference tournament, did get a No. 1 seed from the NCAA Tournament selection committee. Unfortunately, they also got stuck with the toughest bracket of all. The 34-0 Shockers …
Stephen F. Austin already has the billing of a Cinderella story this March. The Lumberjacks are 31-2 and won the Southland Conference regular season and tournament. They got a 12 seed in the South region and will face 5-seed VCU in the first round, …
Mathematicians have estimated that there is a roughly 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 chance of filling out the perfect NCAA Tournament bracket. Two years ago, there were only two perfect brackets remaining out of 6.45 million ESPN entrants before the …
