Field for Sweet 16 Set
The opening rounds of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament are complete and it’s on to the Sweet 16 starting March 26th. As usual, there are some higher seeded teams remaining...
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Golden State Beats Atlanta in Possible NBA Finals Matchup
The Atlanta Hawks and Golden State Warriors have been at the top of the standings in the Eastern and Western Conferences of the NBA, and the way these two teams...
Upsets and Exciting Finishes Galore as NCAA Basketball Tournament Gets Underway
It was a tumultuous first day of the second round of the NCAA Tournament (the first round was those four play in games) with upsets, near upsets, and exciting finishes...
Kentucky, Villanova, Duke, and Wisconsin Claim Top Four Seeds in NCAA Tournament
The 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket is out and to the surprise of no one, Kentucky is the top seed overall, and in the Midwest Region. The Wildcats are...
Wyoming Earns Its First Trip to NCAA Tournament Since 1988
While there are plenty of teams that make it to the NCAA basketball tournament year after year, the field of 68 also includes teams who don’t get there very often....
NCAA Throws the Book at Syracuse Basketball
Citing a decade of violations in which the Syracuse University’s men’s basketball program was essentially out of control, the NCAA brought the hammer down on March 6th. The sanctions include...
Iowa State Rallies From 21 Point Deficit to Beat Oklahoma
The 15th ranked Oklahoma Sooner basketball team rolled into Ames, Iowa on March 2nd and blew out the 17th ranked Cyclones in the early going, taking a 37-19 lead into...
Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony Out 4-6 Months After Knee Surgery
The New York Knicks’ disastrous 2014-15 NBA season just got worse. With the league’s worst record at 10-43, the Knicks announced February 18th that Carmelo Anthony will miss 4 to 6...
R.I.P. Jerry Tarkanian
Jerry Tarkanian, coach of the 1990 NCAA Basketball champion Nevada-Las Vegas Runnin’ Rebels, died February 11th in Las Vegas at age 84. Tark the Shark as he was nicknamed, took...
Charles Barkley Does Not Like Statistics in Basketball
Former NBA star and current TNT basketball analyst Charles Barkley doesn’t think much of the current trend in the NBA of using statistics to help evaluate teams and players, declaring...
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