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Sports Central February 4, 2013 Andrew Jones |
NCAA Contenders and Pretenders As of the week 13 rankings released on January 28, 10 teams have been in the AP top five at one point or another this season: Michigan, Kansas, Indiana, Florida, Duke, Syracuse, Louisville, Arizona, Ohio State, and Kentucky. |
Sports Central December 1, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
ACC Looking to Improve on Big Ten Over the next three nights, teams from two of the biggest and best conferences will come together for the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Here are some of the highlights. |
Sports Central March 26, 2014 Andrew Jones |
Bracket Patterns The opening four days of the 2014 NCAA were about as good as it gets in the world of sports. |
Sports Illustrated March 12, 2000 |
Chat Reel: SI's Tim Crothers The lowdown on the NCAA tournament |
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 October 13, 2011 Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Basketball Preview As the college football season gets into full swing, we will soon have yet another "favorite sports time of the year" for this writer. |
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 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 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 May 19, 2011 Kevin Beane |
Early-Season College Hoops Matchups It takes until pretty close to the season for all the Division 1 schools to say, "okay, here is our schedule" to where it can be reliably released to the media. |
Sports Central April 11, 2012 Jonathan Lowe |
"Logic" Problems? It happens in every sport and at every level. In the days following a season, pink slips are shown to coaches that haven't lived up to their potential (and haven't built up their teams to said potential). College basketball is no different. |
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. |
Sports Central October 7, 2012 Jonathan Lowe |
Early Tourneys: The Underappreciated There are several college basketball tournaments going on during the holiday season. With showcase games all over the country, some can get lost in the shuffle. |
Sports Central March 17, 2011 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: NCAA Tourney Bric-A-Bracketology What happens in the dark room once the NCAA Selection Committee convenes? |
Sports Central February 20, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
The Season to Expect the Unexpected As a college basketball fan, I can't begin to keep track of the number of times someone has told me, "The regular season doesn't mean anything. I'm just waiting for the tournament to start." No, I would always say or think. |
Sports Central March 22, 2010 Scott Shepherd |
Why March Madness is Overrated Not only do I not believe that everyone loves March Madness, I'm not sold on the fact that they even believe it. |
Sports Central March 12, 2007 Seth Doria |
NCAA Tournament Preview At the risk of repeating everything you may have already heard, here are 20 thoughts on the 2007 NCAA tournament bracket. |
Sports Central March 15, 2005 Mark Chalifoux |
Sports Gospel's March Madness Report College basketball All-Americans: Dee Brown, Illinois... Chris Paul, Wake Forest... Andrew Bogut... etc. |
Sports Central August 5, 2013 Jean Neuberger |
Beefing Up Schedules It was a packed house at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham, listening to SEC Commissioner Mike Slive talk about basketball. |
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 20, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
NCAA Tournament Weekend Wrap-Up A few observations from the NCAA tournament this past weekend. |
Sports Illustrated March 5, 2002 Seth Davis |
March Badness Conference tournaments work for mid-major leagues, but they encourage top teams to tank... |
Sports Central November 30, 2006 Kevin Beane |
Livewriting Ohio State/North Carolina Commentary on the Ohio State/North Carolina basketball game, written as it was being played. |
Sports Central April 4, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Wrapping Up the Madness There are 10 key things to take away from the NCAA tournament. |
Sports Central February 16, 2009 Corrie Trouw |
Five Simple Rules For Picking a National Champ Which teams are contenders in the NCAA basketball tournament? Well, if past tournaments are any indication, we can eliminate quite a few candidates right now with a few rules. |
Sports Illustrated March 7, 2000 Tim Crothers |
UConn is still a dangerous team This week, Tim discussed his sleeper team for the NCAA tournament, Indiana State's chances and his picks for player and coach of the year. |
Sports Central April 9, 2013 Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From the 2013 NCAA Tournament With the hangovers still pounding in Louisville (and Ann Arbor), the 2013 NCAA tournament is in the books. Despite the dramatics in Monday night's finale, it wasn't a pretty tournament. |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2000 B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions I admire teams such as Michigan State, Kentucky, Duke, Illinois, Arizona and North Carolina for playing such difficult non-conference schedules. Coaches know that come tournament time it will pay off, even if it means a couple more losses... |
Sports Central March 9, 2011 Ryan Day |
On March Madness March Madness isn't perfect, and I think even the most ardent college basketball apologist would agree with me. |
Sports Central April 9, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
Everybody Gets a Trophy There is a recent trend brewing in men's college basketball -- the growth of tournament play. And the focus of college basketball has been splintered. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top 10: Highest Paid College Basketball Coaches Take a look at what the top ten highest paid college basketball coaches, out of those programs that made the 2006 NCAA tournament, were getting in salary and perks, and what they've done to merit that level of compensation. |
Sports Central April 4, 2011 Jonathan Lowe |
Ride That Darkhorse I gotta admit, I'm flying high right now. My Sports Christmas came and went with fantastic basketball, and the start to my favorite week of the year included an unusually tight pair of semifinals in Houston. |
Sports Central April 5, 2012 Adam Russell |
Four Things Missing From the Final Four After watching this year's Final Four and NCAA championship game, I started to think back on the games and asked myself, "What was different about these games from previous ones?" |
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 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 Illustrated March 21, 2001 Alexander Wolff |
And then there were 16 Musings on the first week of NCAA tournament play |
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 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 Illustrated September 27, 2002 Tim Layden |
Open membership College football's elite group grows larger every season. |
Sports Central December 16, 2003 Jeff Zaginailoff |
The Solution to the BCS is a Playoff Tournament Despite recent efforts to reform it, the process for deciding the national champion in college football, the most noteworthy and public of all college sports, is still far from perfected. |
Sports Central March 21, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Coaching the Cause Behind Weak First Weekend I love the NCAA tournament. And that's what makes this that much harder to say: this year's tournament has sucked. |
Sports Central July 30, 2009 Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Basketball Preview I have carved an enjoyable niche both for my column and for my own idiosyncratic tendencies by previewing the first week of both college football and basketball months in advance, well before anyone else. |
Sports Central December 29, 2015 Jonathan Lowe |
From Holiday to Celebrate Last week, college basketball's holiday tournaments wrapped for the season. I noted before that this is one of my favorite parts of the sport's calendar. |
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 December 30, 2004 Kevin Beane |
Under the Blanket With Radio, S'Mores Childhood memories revisited: Secretly watching games on TV or listening on the radio past your bedtime. |
Sports Central December 30, 2011 Corrie Trouw |
The Healing Hoosiers College basketball suffers when historic programs plunge below their typical standards. |
Sports Central April 1, 2006 Alan Rubenstein |
Indy's Had Unlikely Final Fours Before It should come as no surprise that the surviving teams advanced to the Circle City with a twist. Indianapolis produced the only other Final Four without a number one seed. |
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 March 10, 2006 Kevin Beane |
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Hooray! It's March Madness time. |
Sports Central April 9, 2014 Jonathan Lowe |
Tourney Learning For the second time in four years, and the fourth time in 16 seasons, the Huskies became the rulers of men's college basketball (only to be joined by the women's team Tuesday night). |