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Foul trouble has somewhat limited the effectiveness of Michigan big man Moritz Wagner so far in this year’s tournament, but the team may have figured out a fix just in time for the Sweet Sixteen. On Wednesday, Wolverines head coach John Beilein …
CBS is standing by one of March Madness’ most divisive quasi-traditions. In an interview with Andrew Marchand of the New York Post that ran on Tuesday, CBS executive producer Harold Bryant defended the network’s practice of showing crying …
16 teams are still standing in the NCAA Tournament, and that group will be whittled down to eight after Thursday and Friday’s games. In what has been a chaotic season, the dust is still settling in some parts of the bracket after a series of …
Like almost every person who watched Sunday’s game between Nevada and Cincinnati, Sister Jean believed the Bearcats had punched their ticket to the Sweet 16 and were going to take on Cinderella story Loyola Chicago. Well, Sister Jean now has to …
We’re down to 16 teams left vying for the national championship in college basketball, and each one has charted a very different path to get here. In a tournament filled with upsets, stars have emerged in unexpected places, and some teams now …
Trying to get injured big man Isaac Haas back on the court is proving to be a whole team effort for Purdue, even beyond just the basketball team. Addressing the media Monday, Boilermakers coach Matt Painter revealed he has heard that the …
Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton thinks the round of NCAA Tournament upsets is simply a sign of things to come — and evidence that college basketball has changed. Hamilton said after his ninth-seeded Seminoles upset top-seeded Xavier that …
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 …
Michigan’s Jordan Poole had reality set in not long after his heroics against Houston. Poole became famous after making a buzzer-beating three-pointer to land the Wolverines in the Sweet 16 for the second consecutive season. Though he was all …
Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin had a head-scratching quote following his team’s loss to Nevada on Sunday. The No. 7 seeded Wolf Pack advanced to the Sweet 16 thanks to a 75-73 victory over the No. 2 seeded Bearcats. Following …
Leonard Hamilton’s Florida State Seminoles are on to the Sweet 16 after a comeback win over No. 1 seed Xavier in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. Florida State came back from down by as many as 12 points with under 10 minutes …
Houston Cougars star Rob Gray had some kind words for Michigan fans despite his team being eliminated by the Wolverines in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. Gray followed up his 39-point performance in Houston’s first-round …
Wondering how big of a choke job Cincinnati executed against Nevada on Sunday? The stats are doing them no favors. ESPN’s metrics which track win probability assigned Cincinnati a 99.9 percent win probability after they went up 65-43 with 11:17 …
Nobody was loving Nevada’s comeback victory over Cincinnati in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday more than the Wolf Pack’s head coach, Eric Musselman. Musselman was so pumped after his squad overcame a 22-point deficit to the Bearcats that he …
Cincinnati blew a 22-point lead against Nevada in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, and Twitter was not kind with their reactions. The Wolf Pack trailed 65-43 with under 12 minutes remaining in the game, but they did not quit. They …
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo couldn’t find a way to get his team better looks late in their loss to Syracuse — but he left two of his key players on the bench during crunch time. Izzo leaned on sixth-year senior Ben Carter in the center …
