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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
February 21, 2011
Adam Russell |
College Hoops Surprises and Disappointments With only about three weeks remaining in the college basketball season, many fans and pundits are starting to look at the potential March Madness brackets. |
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
July 11, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
Fitting in the "Final Four" The NCAA is expected to announce this week their new format for the Division I Men's tournament, as March Madness now welcomes 68 to the party. Let's hope the NCAA chooses to place a mixture of both at-large teams and automatic qualifiers. |
Sports Central
November 20, 2007
Jean Neuberger |
Hidden Valley You have to love the parody in college 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
January 19, 2009
Ross Lancaster |
The Year of the Major Conference In college basketball, this year may go down as the Year of the Major Conference. |
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
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
April 7, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
NCAA Tournament Winners and Losers From the first day until the last heave by Gordon Heyward that just missed, March Madness outdid itself this year. |
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
February 3, 2011
Andrew Jones |
Tourney Expansion: Is Bigger Better? If expansion of the NCAA college basketball tournament continues, inconsistencies will need to be addressed so that the dream of Cinderella can stay alive. |
Sports Central
December 29, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
When Madness Goes Insane Talks are ramping up to expand the NCAA men's basketball tournament again. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
BracketBuzzkillers BracketBusters represents a diversion in the college basketball season that is unnecessary to the teams involved and claims objectives that are increasingly either irrelevant or downright false. |
Sports Central
March 19, 2009
Jean Neuberger |
The Not-So-Sweet 16 March Madness needs a different type of play-in game. |
Sports Illustrated
March 5, 2002
Seth Davis |
March Badness Conference tournaments work for mid-major leagues, but they encourage top teams to tank... |
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
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 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. |
Salon.com
July 19, 2000
Gary Kaufman |
One too many The NCAA wants to expand its men's basketball Tournament from 64 teams to 65. It's an outrage! |
Sports Central
February 29, 2012
Jean Neuberger |
Mid-Major Rankings: Pre-Conference Tourney Edition March Madness has the feel of another round of upsets. |
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 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 Central
December 4, 2010
Paul Foeller |
Cinderella in 2010: December Edition This year may be young, but some teams are starting to show their true colors already. Who can shock the nation-wide audience like Northern Iowa and Cornell did last year? |
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
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
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
April 27, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
Why 68 is Great College basketball fans should be pleased and even optimistic that a 68-team tournament can produce fantastic tournaments. |
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
March 17, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
What the Tournament Committee Really Said What did the NCAA tournament selection committee really tell us and the other sects of the basketball world on Selection Sunday? |
Sports Central
January 7, 2012
Jonathan Lowe |
Becoming a True Cinderella These are the programs that help make March special in the realm of sports. Their journeys to the NCAA tournament, along with their attempts to knock off the traditional giants, help to build the brand of the Big Dance. |
Salon.com
March 12, 2002
King Kaufman |
Open the NCAA Tournament to all comers A 324-team field would add excitement and give hope to underdogs. Almost as good, it'd get rid of the dumb conference championships... |
Sports Central
January 16, 2013
Greg Suttich |
March Madness Starts in January As we near the end of another NFL football season, we start to feel the blues. But then March comes and the event called March Madness gets us back on our couches cheering and fist-bumping over our favorite team while keeping our brackets and a pen within arms reach. |
AskMen.com
Brandon Lang |
2007 March Madness Predictions What's the key to winning during March Madness? Play the underdogs |
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 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 8, 2011
Joshua Duffy |
Calling Cinderella: Who Will Crash This Year's Tournament? Everybody loves an upset. Here are three to keep an eye on during this year's NCAA tournament. |
Sports Central
January 9, 2006
Jonathan Lowe |
The Inauguration of a Superconference? The Big East conference is large enough to always see success in the NCAA tournament. |
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 Central
November 16, 2011
Andrew Jones |
College Basketball 2011-12 Buy or Sell The college basketball season is now underway and there is a lot of speculation floating around about if certain teams are for real and if early losses or close calls are just flukes. |
Sports Central
March 24, 2009
Wailele Sallas |
Lessons Learned From March Madness Never underestimate the 'nobody believed in us' angle... Don't get caught up in the madness... The Big 10 is overrated!... The Big East is for real!... etc. |
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Andrew Segal |
March Madness Preview: Breaking Down The Bracket Two missed free throws with no time left on the clock cost the Memphis Tigers a spot. The Buffalo Bulls were denied their invitation courtesy of a last-second game-winning shot in overtime by Ohio University. |
Sports Central
March 28, 2011
Adam Russell |
March Madness? How About March Insanity? Who would have thought that this year's Final Four would be comprised of an eight-seed, an 11-seed (both being mid-majors), and a couple traditional powers not seeded No. 1? |
Sports Central
March 19, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
The Best Way to Go Dancing If a conference isn't truly sending one of its best teams, the chance of madness goes down. And unless you're that obsessive about making your bracket the "perfect" one, no one should want less of March in for this week. |
Sports Central
December 11, 2013
Andrew Jones |
Six Mid-Majors to Watch Come March We'll take a look at basketball teams who have been traditionally looked at as mid-majors (though that may be changing for some of them in the very near future) and look at their chances to make some serious noise come March. |
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
March 23, 2006
Sara Normand |
Six Things That Make You Say, "D'OH!" Anaheim teams playing the "name game"... Japan and Cuba battling for baseball championship... Four Missouri Valley Conference teams making the basketball tournament... Billy Packer during the Selection Show... Dallas fans deserting after T.O. signing... Alfonso Soriano... |
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. |
