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Sports Central
March 11, 2009
Seth Doria |
The NCAA Bubble Shuffle With so many conference championships going on this week, it's easy to lose focus on the few games that hold the most meaning. But there are other games that serve as critical dominos in the dance before The Dance - call it the bubble shuffle.   |
Sports Central
January 30, 2007
Seth Doria |
Madness in the Making: Part I A look at teams from the Pac-10, SEC, Colonial, and Missouri Valley conferences. |
Sports Central
February 12, 2007
Seth Doria |
NCAA BracketBusters Preview Here's a look at 14 televised college basketball games, plus a few others that may well have an affect on the madness to come. |
Sports Central
February 12, 2008
Seth Doria |
32 Days to Selection Sunday In lieu of a verbal highlight reel of the past week, a look at the general landscape of college hoops with barely more than a month until the madness |
Sports Central
February 23, 2009
Andrew Jones |
March Madness Conference Predictions Here's a look at who will potentially represent each conference, focusing especially on the mid-majors and who actually has some potential to make it past the first weekend. |
Sports Central
December 4, 2006
Seth Doria |
NCAA Tournament Sleeper Watch Here is a list of "underdog" teams capable of making at least a Sweet 16 run as an eight-seed or lower in the 2007 NCAA tournament. |
Sports Central
January 22, 2007
Seth Doria |
MVC: Most (Over)Valued Conference Here's a thought: maybe the Missouri Valley Conference is overrated. Maybe the top teams just aren't as good as everybody is making them out to be. |
Sports Central
February 20, 2007
Seth Doria |
NCAA BracketBusters Breakdown Outside of the conference action, the BracketBusters series will prove to be a pivotal moment of the season for several teams. |
Sports Central
February 5, 2008
Seth Doria |
39 Days to Selection Sunday This week in basketball saw one team step above the rest, others move up or down the ladder of momentum, and some individual performances that make your jaw drop. |
Sports Central
February 26, 2014
Andrew Jones |
Sorting Out the One Seeds From the Twos As the college basketball season winds down, we're met with questions of bubble teams, road wins, strength of schedule, and my personal favorite debate this time of year: who deserves the number one seeds. |
Sports Central
February 6, 2007
Seth Doria |
Madness in the Making: Part II Between now and the NFL draft, college basketball has the stage to itself: Three on the Way Up... Three on the Way Down... Could Go Either Way... etc. |
Sports Central
March 12, 2012
Andrew Jones |
NCAA Tournament Thoughts and Provocations I love the NCAA tournament. This week is my favorite week in the entire year. From Selection Sunday until the final game the following Sunday, I am addicted to basketball. |
Sports Illustrated
February 20, 2001
Seth Davis |
Bubble Trouble With so many bids to the NCAAs locked up, the fight for the remaining few will be frenzied... |
Sports Central
March 31, 2006
Chris Cornell |
Sifting Through the Madness March Madness is one of the most over-used phrases in sports, but never has a tournament so lived up to the adage. |
Sports Central
January 29, 2008
Seth Doria |
46 Days to Selection Sunday A look at the last week in college basketball. |
Sports Central
February 22, 2007
Ricky Dimon |
Mid-Majors Vie For Chance to Bust Brackets Sorting out the chaos that was the 2007 BracketBuster weekend. |
Sports Central
January 24, 2008
Seth Doria |
51 Days to Selection Sunday A recap of the past ten days in college hoops. |
Sports Central
February 8, 2012
Andrew Jones |
Why Murray State Deserves a No. 1 Seed Murray State is 23-0. They have beaten one ranked team (Memphis) and only face one more before the end of the season (Saint Mary's). They currently hold a No. 7 ranking in the USA Today Poll and a No. 9 ranking in the AP poll. |
Sports Central
December 22, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
Atlantic Coast Calamity As of last week, the ACC had just one ranked team, normally an unthinkable phenomenon in most seasons approaching the holidays and conference play for everybody. |
Sports Central
January 19, 2010
Seth Doria |
Pac-10 Basketball in Disarray Pac-10 fans better pay close attention to the first weekend of the NCAA tournament this year, because it looks real unlikely any Pac school will be around for the second. |
Sports Central
February 4, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
Appearing on the Radar: February Over the next few weeks, numerous journalists, experts, and regular peeps will make their guesses on who will make it into this year's hollowed bracket. Like the previous few seasons, the mid-major conferences are starting to field some tourney-worthy squads. |
Sports Illustrated
February 26, 2001
Tim Crothers |
Chat Reel Virginia, Ohio State could do damage in the Big Dance... |
Sports Central
March 2, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
NCAA Selection Misconceptions At this time of the college basketball season, you will see a plethora of "Who's In/Who's Out" segments on the ESPN networks, CBS, and probably any other major outlet that shows college hoops. |
Sports Central
February 28, 2006
Alan Rubenstein |
Big-Time Programs Still Have Work to Do With two weeks remaining until bid day, many of the nation's most recognized college basketball programs have work left to do to receive their invitation to the NCAA tournament. |
Sports Central
November 20, 2007
Jean Neuberger |
Hidden Valley You have to love the parody in college basketball. |
Sports Central
November 15, 2006
Seth Doria |
NCAA Tournament Sleeper Watch The seeds for tournament runs are always planted in the fall. Pay attention now, and you just might have something to brag about come March. |
Sports Central
March 3, 2009
Ross Lancaster |
The Forgotten West While the Pac-10 is underrated, it has received Dallas Cowboys-like coverage compared to the Mountain West. |
Sports Illustrated
March 12, 2002
Seth Davis |
Committee relies too much on RPI As long as we're stuck with this system, the Ratings Percentage Index, for ranking college basketball teams, let's at least be honest about it. The RPI is not objective, it hurts the mid-majors and it matters. A lot... |
Sports Central
March 14, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Selection Committee The NCAA Basketball Selection Committee is in many ways like the Supreme Court. Its decisions are done behind closed doors and many are outraged after the verdicts are reached. |
Sports Central
March 20, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
NCAA Tournament Weekend Wrap-Up A few observations from the NCAA tournament this past weekend. |
Sports Central
February 16, 2011
Jean Neuberger |
Worst Case Scenario: Must Win or Get in? Take a look at some mid-major programs that are sitting at or near the top of their conferences. |
Sports Central
February 15, 2008
Brian Cox |
All the Rage of Mid-Majors Mid-majors are now, in some cases, mainstays around Top 25 polls, and within the respectable range in RPI rankings. Here are five mid-majors teams to be mindful of. |
Sports Central
March 11, 2010
Vito Curcuru |
9 Reasons to Expand the NCAA Tournament It's time for the NCAA tournament to expand to 347. |
Sports Central
March 6, 2005
Alan Rubenstein |
Championship Week Begins the Madness The 2005 conference tournaments will have many interesting plots and sub-plots to follow. Some teams will be jockeying for a place into the NCAA Tournament, while others want to solidify their seed. |
Sports Central
March 14, 2006
Mark Chalifoux |
Selection Sunday Winners and Losers A list of winners and losers from Selection Sunday. |
Sports Central
March 13, 2006
Jonathan Lowe |
Have a Holly, Jolly Madness An evaluation of the teams selected to participate in the NCAA basketball tournament. |
Sports Central
March 3, 2011
Paul Foeller |
Here We Go Again Even the top of the conference is anything but a sure bet against quality opponents. |
Sports Central
January 8, 2007
Seth Doria |
We're All Doomed! Pat Robertson predicts mass killing... Missouri and basketball... Dolphin's backup Denny Green... Raiders should hire Rob Ryan as head coach... Baseball writing 101... USC in top three of Pac-10... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
February 20, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Gonzaga's seed distort Where, oh where, do the Zags belong in the NCAA basketball tournament? |
Sports Central
December 27, 2006
Seth Doria |
NCAA Report: Fear the Dragons Drexel University may be the best basketball team in Philadelphia (76ers included). |
Sports Illustrated
March 6, 2001
Alexander Wolff |
Another dispatch from the Dungeon So we sit in the Dudgeon Dungeon, waiting out the rest of Championship Week, desperately hoping that Creighton, despite losing in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, can land an at-large bid... |
Sports Illustrated
June 21, 2002
Seth Davis |
The woes of a mid-major Western Kentucky fights an uphill battle to improve its men's basketball schedule. |
Sports Central
March 7, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
Memphis: Both Underrated and Overrated? When the Selection Committee selects and seeds teams this week in an unknown Indianapolis hotel meeting room, one of the more interesting cases they will look at will be the 27-3 Memphis Tigers. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2009
Seth Doria |
The NCAA Tournament in Stats So now that we've established my credentials at predicting the future, let's leave the Final Four prognosticating to somebody else. |
Sports Central
February 24, 2004
Eric Williams |
The Season of Dreams The Stanford Cardinal and the St. Joseph's Hawks both enter this last week of February with unblemished records and are bidding to become the first pair of teams to enter the NCAA tournament without a loss |
Sports Central
February 9, 2006
Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Blackjack: Fourth Edition Comments on officiating in sports, ESPN, the Johnny Walker Classic and more. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2015
Corrie Trouw |
No More Goliaths College basketball's Davids might not stand level to its Goliaths, but their sling-arms are yoked. |
Sports Central
December 17, 2008
Ross Lancaster |
Praise For the Heels, X-Men Somehow, the North Carolina Tarheels have exceeded expectations thus far. And Xavier is really getting it done on the defensive end. |
