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Kentucky Vs. Kansas… Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk? or … On, On, U of K?
It’s not easy to get to the last game of March Madness. Sixty-two teams were not able to overcome the chaos of the first five rounds.
To win five games in a row is a remarkable feat, and the teams who are here should be commended to even have made it this far.
Kentucky was able to make it by overmatching a pesky Louisville team. The Wildcats on occasion seemed primed to blow the game open, but the Cards continued to hang in the game until the very end.
UK finally made their clutch shots and defensive plays when it counted, winning the first Final Four match of the day 69-61. Read More >>
UW Stumbles Over A Few Gophers, Fails To Prove NCAA Tourney Doubters Wrong
The Huskies desperately wanted to show the world they belonged in the NCAA Tournament.
But they will not get a chance to win the NIT championship.
Despite a thrilling comeback in the final minutes to force overtime, Washington fell to Minnesota 68-67 in their NIT semifinal match Tuesday night at NYC’s Madison Square Garden.
While impressive on the defensive end of the court, Washington hit just 36.6 percent of their field goals. Read More >>
“Party In The O-S-U” As Sullinger And Buckeyes Advance To The Final Four
The artwork on the bathroom wall of the Ohio State star Jared Sullinger showed just how much a trip to the Final Four meant to him. After last season’s upset loss in the Round of 16 to Kentucky, Sullinger printed out a photo of Wildcats guard Brandon Knight’s winning shot and hung it up for motivation.
Sullinger created some new art Saturday night, leading the No. 2 Buckeyes to a 77-70 victory over top-seeded Syracuse in the East Region final. Snapshots of the key moments of this game will star Sullinger, who overcame early foul trouble to lead Ohio State with 19 points on only nine shots. Read More >>
SU Orangemen Almosted Get Peeled In The First Round
The Syracuse Orange managed to stay out of the history books.
Syracuse narrowly avoided becoming the first No. 1 seed to lose to a 16-seed in NCAA Tournament history with a 72-65 victory over scrappy UNC Asheville on Thursday here at the Consol Energy Center.
Syracuse, which spent most of the season countering a series of scandals with win after win, finally saw the off-court controversies converge with the team’s on-court performance.
Just two days after starting center Fab Melo was declared ineligible for the NCAA Tournament, the Orange looked almost shell-shocked in its game against UNC Asheville. Read More >>
Five Years Later Greg Oden Has Proved He Is Not The Reincarnation Of The Popular Norse God
Greg Oden’s time with the Portland Trail Blazers, which effectively ended in February when it was announced that he would soon be undergoing his third microfracture knee surgery, is officially over now.
The Blazers are waiving the 24-year-old because they needed to create roster room to accommodate all the Portland players acquired earlier in the day in separate trades with New Jersey and Houston.
In his five pro seasons since the Blazers selected him No. 1 overall ahead of Kevin Durant in the 2007 NBA draft, Oden has appeared in only 82 games and endured five knee surgeries. Read More >>
Huskies Make History (The Wrong Way) During Selection Sunday
Lorenzo Romar knew what the outcome was probably going to be to the point of being bluntly realistic with those around him following Washington’s stunning loss to Oregon State in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Conference tournament.
Romar’s growing fear became truth on Sunday when Washington, the regular-season champions of the Pac-12, was left out of the 68-team field for the NCAA tournament, making the Huskies a rare footnote and trivia fact in the annals of tournament selections.
It’s the first time a regular-season champion of a traditional power-six conference was not selected for the tournament, and the first time an outright regular-season champion or co-champion of the Pac-12, Pac-10, Pac-8 or Pacific Coast Conference failed to be chosen for the tournament since the 1950′s. Read More >>
This year it’s Big XII, next year it’s Big (10) 12
If you didn’t know university’s like Kansas, Missouri, Baylor, Iowa State and Kansas State were feared teams, then you probably 
haven’t watched too much college football, and not enough college basketball. The Big 12 conference rich in collective history, and home of the original innovator of basketball, James Naismith, is actually a relatively young conference formed in 1994 out of the cores of the longstanding Big Eight and Southwest Conferences. Although known mostly for rivaling the Big Ten and SEC for distinction in college football, the Big 12 was not slow in making its presence felt in college basketball. In just its second year of integration, the Big 12′s Oklahoma State Cowboys reached the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four in 1995. Historical NBA staples such as Iowa State’s Jeff Hornacek, (former conference team) Colorado’s Chauncey Billups, and Kansas’s Paul Pierce and Wilt Chamberlain have all graced Big 12 schools with their talents. Two of the NBA’s current arguable top 10 players have both come out of the Big 12: Oklahoma City Thunder’s elastic scorer, Kevin Durant, and Los Angeles Clipper’s dunking phenom, Blake Griffin. Read More >>
Bigger and Better
Big East men’s basketball has twice as many teams as it football counterpart: 8 teams football to 16 teams basketball. And it’s been apparent since 1979 that having such a large conference, 3 more teams in basketball than any other NCAA Division I conference, hasn’t watered-down the talent level or competitiveness of the league. The conference’s proudest moment might’ve happened either in 1985, when 3 of the 4 Final Four team’s comprised itself of Big East teams (Villanova, Georgetown and St. John’s; the tournament winner going on to be Villanova) or last year, when 11 of the conference’s 16 teams went on to enter the NCAA Tournament comprising 16 percent of the tournament’s total field (Connecticut, Big East’s conference winner, also going on to win the 2011 championship game). Although not all of the Big East’s teams have done it while members of the conference, all of the Big East team’s, besides USF, have made an appearance in the Final Four at some point in their history’s.
For the last 30 years the spotlight of this mega-conference’s season-ending tournament has been played at basketball’s virtual mecca, Madison Square Garden, where 12 of the conference’s top 16 teams annually make the pilgrimage. This year the most highlighted team heading into the Garden will be #2 AP-ranked Syracuse. The Orangemen are one Notre Dame loss removed from a perfect season, and have been winning in the face of on-going former assistant coach Bernie Fine’s child abuse scandal, and a subsequent slander case against head coach Jim Boeheim, surrounding comments about the abused ball-boy children made soon after child abuse allegations first surfaced. Read More >>
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