March 28, 20178 yr For anyone who didn't see that amazing UK-UNC finish yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmtSeA4_qC0
April 3, 20178 yr The #1 seeds won the semis - so its Gonzaga vs. North Carolina in tonight's championship game. Battle of Goliaths or an underdog upstart vs. basketball establishment? This is Gonzaga's first trip to the Final Four and Championship Game - but they've also made the tournament 19 straight years and are 37-1 this season. However, North Carolina is basketball royalty with 20 Final Fours and 5 National Championships. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2017/04/02/the-gonzaga-north-carolina-title-game-will-be-goliath-vs-goliath/?tid=pm_sports_pop&utm_term=.079c9931fe92
April 4, 20178 yr In last night's Battle of Goliaths, establishment Goliath outlasted upstart Goliath to win their sixth National Championship.
April 4, 20178 yr In last night's Battle of Goliaths, establishment Goliath outlasted upstart Goliath to win their sixth National Championship. When the heat was on Gonzaga melted, while the UNC front court seemed to get three feet taller.
February 8, 20187 yr Also, the past week for St. John's will most likely remain a tiny footnote in college basketball history--but an unranked, sub-.500 team just knocked off #4 Duke and #1 Villanova back-to-back.
February 8, 20187 yr St. John's also lost to #5 Xavier by only 5 points on January 30, and by 6 points on January 17. Yet they lose to Butler by 25...
February 8, 20187 yr College BB is just weird this year with all of the under-performing bluebloods. Duke is losing some headscratchers, UNC is unimpressive, karma is finally catching up to UK and we see that Calipayme is an average-at-best coach when he doesn't have 8 burger boys, Kansas has lost 4 games at home and is behind TT for the BXII lead, Indiana WHO?, UCLA WHERE? and Louisville...after catching fire and looking like a 4 seed, seems to be buckling under the pressure of the ACC slate with a young first-year coach. The tournament will probably have it's lowest viewership in quite a while, with faves floundering and the black cloud of NCAA ineptitude hanging over the game. The bright spot. XU and UC look like legit F4/NC shots. Wow!
February 11, 20187 yr It's not March yet, but it's starting to feel like it. The following ranked teams lost yesterday, only two to ranked opponents: #25 Miami (FL) to BC #24 Kentucky to Texas A&M #19 West Virginia to Oklahoma State #15 Tennessee to Alabama, crushed 78-50. Tennessee had been overperforming their preseason ranking by a lot, but this was a hard return to Earth. #11 St. Mary's to #11 Gonzaga #3 Purdue to #4 Michigan State (of course one of them was going to lose, but Purdue's loss incidentally puts Ohio State in first place in the conference with four games to go, none against ranked teams but one against Penn State, who holds the only win against us in the conference so far). #2 Virginia to Virginia Tech 60-61 in overtime. That hurts. Virginia was likely to move into the #1 slot because of Villanova's loss to St. John's earlier in the week. That plus Duke's loss to St. Johns as well means there is a lot of room for #14 OSU to move up, and #5 Xavier (who survived by the skin of their teeth via a questionable foul call with 0.3 seconds to go that put an 85% free throw shooter on the line, who sank both to go from 1 down to 1 up against Creighton) might even move to #2 given the losses by Duke, Purdue, and Virginia.
March 4, 20187 yr Remarkable year in college basketball for the Cincinnati area. Regular season results: #3 Xavier: Outright Big East champions #10 Cincinnati: Outright American champions Northern Kentucky: Outright Horizon champions Xavier will likely be a 1 seed, Cincinnati a 2 seed, and NKU won't make the tournament after losing to Cleveland State in the Horizon tournament.
March 5, 20187 yr Yeah. That sucks about NKU. Could have been back to back trips. Great seeing X and UC success. Too bad about Louisville. They will need to beat Florida State and then likely UVA to make the tourney. Kentucky is impossible to figure out. They’re in but without a favorable draw, I doubt they win two games. Thomas More women and Louisville women both look like NC contenders.
March 6, 20187 yr Cleveland State Vikings baby! https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/03/06/cleveland-state-offering-free-ride-and-tickets-to-about-250-people-for-tonights-horizon-league-championship-game
March 17, 20187 yr The University of Maryland Baltimore County Retrievers??? Yes, 16th-seeded UMBC -- the University of Maryland Baltimore County Retrievers -- pummeled the No. 1 team in the nation Virginia Cavaliers 74-54 last night: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/22800763/umbc-pulled-most-unforgettable-did-just-see-upset-ncaa-tournament-history-knocking-no-1-overall-seed-virginia The first ever 16 seed beating a 1 seed in the tournament. And as for Virginia, shades of Chaminade in 1982 - arguably the biggest upset in college basketball history, until last night.
March 24, 20187 yr https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2018/03/22/loyola-chicagos-sister-jean-continues-to-steal-the-show-at-ncaa-tournament/?utm_term=.0c217056f63c
March 25, 20187 yr Yep. It’s a great story. Who wild have thought a bracket with UVA, UK, UC would produce a F4 rep of Loyola.
March 26, 20187 yr Note the date. This was back before the Sweet Sixteen. https://twitter.com/DSMbrewster/status/974853002375909376/photo/1
April 25, 20187 yr The Commission on College Basketball has recommended an end to the one-and-done rule, potential lifetime bans for rule-breakers and changes to the relationship between the NCAA and apparel companies. This 12-member commission was formed in the wake of last fall's FBI investigation into corruption and fraud in college basketball and recruiting in which ten people were arrested, including officials at Adidas and assistant coaches at Arizona, Oklahoma State, USC and Auburn. Commission chair Condoleezza Rice held a news conference in Indianapolis today after the independent panel released a 60-page report: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/23311712/commission-college-basketball-shares-recommendations-ncaa https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commission-on-college-basketball-says-ban-ncaa-cheats-end-one-and-done-ap/
April 26, 20187 yr Yes, the problem with NCAA basketball and amateurism is the NBA and their agents. It has nothing to do with rampant academic fraud (UNC) or not allowing players to profit off their own name or likeness. What a crock. Basically the NCAA just said, we aren't the problem, everyone else is the problem. How about allow kids to have representation, like hockey or baseball, and let kids profit off their own names.
April 26, 20187 yr I feel like anonymity is so great in college basketball today that it has made it boring. Nobody even knows anybody's name anymore; it's just team. Indoor sports need big personalities since you don't have weather conditions as a variable.
February 21, 20196 yr Nike ruined last night's UNC/Duke game: https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-zion-williamson-shoe-knee-injury-2019-2 https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2019/2/20/18234152/zion-williamson-injury-shoe-blow-out-duke-vs-north-carolina
March 18, 20196 yr https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2019/3/17/18270031/march-madness-predictions-2019-ncaa-tournament-picks-duke-kentucky-national-title The 2019 NCAA Tournament is slim on Ohio teams this year -- only UC & OSU got selected. But at least there are two game locations in Ohio this year: Dayton hosts the NCAA Tournament First Four games again on Tuesday and Wednesday. UD Arena is always a good setting to start out the tourney. And thankfully the NCAA isn't calling these "First Round" games anymore - it didn't sound right calling the next opening round games "Second & Third Round". Columbus hosts First & Second Round Games at Nationwide Arena on Friday and Sunday. Nice selection of teams will be in C-BUS. #1 North Carolina and #2 Tennessee will be there. But the marquee game for local interest is #7 Cincinnati against #10 Iowa.
March 23, 20196 yr Big Ten wins 7 out of 8 in first round games. That East Bracket is Big Ten heavy and serves to eliminate BigTen teams. ??
March 27, 20196 yr There is a perfect bracket still out there. It was filled out at NCAA.com’s "Bracket Challenge". A writer at NCAA.com tracked him down for an interview: https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracketiq/2019-03-27/we-found-man-who-has-last-perfect-bracket-world-heres-what The perfect bracket was filled out by Gregg Nigl - a 40-year-old neuropsychologist who works for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Columbus⚠️ The odds of a perfect bracket up to the Sweet 16 vary depending on what criteria one uses - but it ranges from 1 in 2 billion to 1 in 2.4 trillion to 1 in 9.2 quintillion! So, alot. The Dispatch also caught up with Gregg Nigl for their own interview at https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190326/columbus-man-behind-last-remaining-perfect-ncaa-bracket Or https://www.thisweeknews.com/news/20190326/columbus-man-behind-last-remaining-perfect-ncaa-bracket - if you can't view it at dispatch.com.
March 27, 20196 yr Went to the game Iowa vs. Tenn and half the game UNC vs. Wash. First time in Columbus and was really fun. Wow, if anyone watched that Iowa vs. Tenn game it was an incredible comeback by Iowa (Iowa fan here of course!). I actually thought they were going to pull it off. TV doesn't do it justice like it does in person, that place was rocking on both sides, lots of Tenn fans and it was packed full of UNC fans, they really travel! We were in a top corner seat, very very top corner lol, but it was still good sightlines at Nationwide Arena.
March 29, 20196 yr On 3/27/2019 at 2:09 PM, Columbo said: There is a perfect bracket still out there. It was filled out at NCAA.com’s "Bracket Challenge". A writer at NCAA.com tracked him down for an interview: https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracketiq/2019-03-27/we-found-man-who-has-last-perfect-bracket-world-heres-what The perfect bracket was filled out by Gregg Nigl - a 40-year-old neuropsychologist who works for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Columbus⚠️ The odds of a perfect bracket up to the Sweet 16 vary depending on what criteria one uses - but it ranges from 1 in 2 billion to 1 in 2.4 trillion to 1 in 9.2 quintillion! So, alot. The Dispatch also caught up with Gregg Nigl for their own interview at https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190326/columbus-man-behind-last-remaining-perfect-ncaa-bracket Or https://www.thisweeknews.com/news/20190326/columbus-man-behind-last-remaining-perfect-ncaa-bracket - if you can't view it at dispatch.com. Gregg Nigl's perfect bracket was blown when Purdue defeated Tennessee in OT last night. (I guess Tennessee was kinda upset too, blowing their lead and "fouling" that Purdue player shooting a desperation jumper to force overtime.)
April 1, 20196 yr An abundance of chalk going into this last Thursday-to-Sunday round of the tournament -- where the Sweet Sixteen gets whittled down to the Final Four. Going into the Sweet 16 there was: All four #1 seeds (Gonzaga, Duke, North Carolina, Virginia) all four #2 seeds (Michigan State, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan) all four #3 seeds (Houston, Purdue, LSU, Texas Tech) and only one underdog seed in #12 Oregon (the next lowest seed was #5 Auburn) And three major conferences had overwhelming representation with 12 of the 16 spots: ACC with 5 (Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Florida State) SEC with 4 (Kentucky, Tennessee, LSU, Auburn) BIG TEN with 3 (Michigan State, Michigan, Purdue) The last four spread among the BIG 12 (Texas Tech); PAC 12 (Oregon); WCC (Gonzaga); AAC (Houston) Coming out of this weekend and into next weekend's Final Four -- much less chalk, much less #1 seeds, and four finalists from four different major conferences: #1 Virginia (ACC) - the only remaining #1 seed - who defeated Oregon and Purdue. #5 Auburn (SEC) - who defeated favorites #1 UNC in the Sweet 16 and #2 UK in the Elite 8 #2 Michigan State (BIG TEN) - who defeated LSU in the Sweet 16 and then #1 Duke in the Elite 8 (in a 68-67 win that was probably the game of the tournament, and probably should have been a Final Four or Final Game if Michigan State hadn't been put in the same region as Duke) #3 Texas Tech (BIG 12) - who defeated Michigan in the Sweet 16 and then #1 Gonzaga in the Elite 8 game
April 1, 20196 yr Purdue lost a heartbreaker. We were a half-second from having 2 Big Ten teams in the Final Four. I'm cheering for UVA, my second alma mater, but I wish that road didn't go through a Big Ten team on the cusp like that. Such is March Madness.
April 8, 20196 yr For fans of defense and low scoring - this is the Final Four for you! Texas Tech beat Michigan State 61-51 to advance into tonight's championship game. Virginia edged Auburn 63-62 to advance - but not without some controversy. Auburn was up 62-60 and thought they won the game when a Virginia player missed an at-the-buzzer three-point shot. But an Auburn defender jumped into the Virginia player after the shot was away, and the Virginia player got 3 free-throws because of the foul call. The Virginia player hit all 3 free-throws to give the Cavaliers a 63-62 victory. Virginia has the #1 rated defense in college basketball this season. Texas Tech has the #3 rated defense. The over/under total score betting line for tonight's final started at 120 points and is currently at 118.5 points! This would be the first national championship for either team tonight. This is Texas Tech's first trip to the final four. This is Virginia's third trip to the final four, but their first since 1984. It is also Virginia's first trip to the championship game. If Virginia were to win tonight, it would also complete an odd sort of "worst-to-first". In the 2018 tournament, Virginia was a #1 seed and lost to a #16 seed - and the only #1 seeded team to ever be eliminated by a #16 seeded team(!)
April 9, 20196 yr What time did this game start? 8pm? College sports need to get their game times under control. They played ball for 45 minutes and it didn't end until 11:45. Edited April 9, 20196 yr by GCrites80s
April 9, 20196 yr 7 hours ago, GCrites80s said: What time did this game start? 8pm? College sports need to get their game times under control. They played ball for 45 minutes and it didn't end until 11:45. It started at 930pm Eastern. So asinine. I haven't watched a college final in basketball or football since Ohio State in January 2015. I mean, more than 75% of the country lives in either the Central or Eastern time zones. Why do they continue to cater to west coast people who couldn't care less anyway? Edited April 9, 20196 yr by aderwent
April 9, 20196 yr https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/sports/virginia-cavaliers-ncaa-final-four.html What a difference one year makes: Virginia goes from the worst NCAA tournament loss ever (#1 losing to a #16) to winning it all. They were: But if not for last-second plays in their final three games, Virginia wouldn't have accomplished this feat. The SB Nation article (linked below) contains video clips of the plays that kept UVA alive in the tournament. Elite Eight: A buzzer-beater against Purdue that sent it into OT Final Four: Foul and three free-throws to win the game against Auburn Championship Game: 3-pointer on their final possession in regulation against Texas Tech to tie it up and send it to OT https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2019/4/9/18301554/virginia-basketball-march-madness-buzzer-beaters-endings-national-championship
November 6, 20195 yr Is it time for CBB already? Yes it is - and I am in awe that ESPN, MSG or whoever got the preseason top four ranked teams for opening-night action on the floor in NYC last night. #4 Duke faced #3 Kansas in the first game - then the first CFB playoff rankings were announced - then #2 Kentucky faced #1 Michigan State in the late game. The two "underdogs" won last night: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28020554/a-college-basketball-celebration-garden-sport-grappling-future
November 7, 20195 yr The Commonwealth representin'! Louisville and Kentucky both in top 5! They could be headed for another 1 vs. 2 matchup between them. That UC/OSU game was awful last night in the first half. Inept offense. Should be interesting this year to see how the extended 3pt line has an effect, if any.
March 11, 20205 yr NCAA tournament will be played without fans The NCAA announced today that the men's and women's basketball tournaments will be played in arenas without fans due to the coronavirus crisis.
March 11, 20205 yr 28 minutes ago, Columbo said: NCAA tournament will be played without fans The NCAA announced today that the men's and women's basketball tournaments will be played in arenas without fans due to the coronavirus crisis. Seeding becomes even more irrelevant
March 12, 20205 yr https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28891602/big-ten-sec-american-cancel-conference-tournaments The Power 5 leagues -- the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and Pac-12 -- canceled their men's basketball conference tournaments on Thursday. Also announcing that their tournaments would not be played were the American, Atlantic 10, Conference USA, MAC, America East, Big Sky and WAC.
March 12, 20205 yr NO MARCH MADNESS THIS YEAR(!) https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28893285/ncaa-tournaments-canceled-coronavirus
March 12, 20205 yr 27 minutes ago, Columbo said: NO MARCH MADNESS THIS YEAR(!) https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28893285/ncaa-tournaments-canceled-coronavirus I think this is a bit of overreaction at this point and the wrong move. Without playing in front of fans you diminish the amount of people in the arenas. With all the people off work and staying home, they are going to need to have something to do with the time, there is only so much Netflix to watch. A little basketball on TV could have been good during this time.
March 13, 20205 yr ^ thats what everyone is saying at work. no march madness, no nba? what are we supposed to watch? i see golf is still going on. ugh.
March 13, 20205 yr 9 minutes ago, mrnyc said: ^ thats what everyone is saying at work. no march madness, no nba? what are we supposed to watch? i see golf is still going on. ugh. Golf is cancelled. I guess we are just going to have to do some good ole fashion family time at home. As a parent with young kids, I may be clinically nuts by the time this is over
March 13, 20205 yr Last Fall, one of the guys at work came in all excited about how he scored an appointment for his vasectomy on the first day of March Madness.
March 13, 20205 yr 20 hours ago, Brutus_buckeye said: I think this is a bit of overreaction at this point and the wrong move. Without playing in front of fans you diminish the amount of people in the arenas. With all the people off work and staying home, they are going to need to have something to do with the time, there is only so much Netflix to watch. A little basketball on TV could have been good during this time. A ref from the CAA tested positive. So...yeah. Very Stable Genius
March 15, 20205 yr On 3/13/2020 at 11:20 AM, BelievelandD1 said: Golf is cancelled. I guess we are just going to have to do some good ole fashion family time at home. As a parent with young kids, I may be clinically nuts by the time this is over i saw that the vegas dave gambler guy is pushing curling and checkers - ha: https://nypost.com/2020/03/13/saddest-gambling-expert-vegas-dave-trying-to-sell-you-on-curling-checkers/
March 16, 20205 yr On 3/12/2020 at 5:05 PM, Brutus_buckeye said: I think this is a bit of overreaction at this point and the wrong move. Without playing in front of fans you diminish the amount of people in the arenas. With all the people off work and staying home, they are going to need to have something to do with the time, there is only so much Netflix to watch. A little basketball on TV could have been good during this time. They could have done the conference tournaments with no fans and then just had an 8 or 16-team NCAA tournament with no fans. No way does the movement of a few hundred people around the country to do what I just described in any way compared with the virus-spreading potential of just a single sold-out arena.
March 16, 20205 yr On 3/13/2020 at 2:01 PM, DarkandStormy said: A ref from the CAA tested positive. So...yeah. As they say, "Dont fear the reaper"
March 16, 20205 yr Simulation Sunday: Dayton wins first title as CBS SportsLine simulates entire 2020 NCAA Tournament "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
January 4, 20214 yr 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament to be played entirely in Indiana The NCAA will host its entire 2021 postseason men's basketball tournament in Indianapolis and surrounding areas with a bubble-like format, officials announced on Monday. All 68 teams will come to compete for the national championship and play most of the games at multiple venues in Indianapolis, with some games in Bloomington and West Lafayette. The bulk of the teams will stay in hotels connected to the Indiana Convention Center, which will be used as a practice facility, the NCAA said. Selection Sunday is still scheduled for March 14, and the Final Four is set to be held April 3 and 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. In Indianapolis, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Hinkle Fieldhouse and Indiana Farmers Coliseum will be used for tournament games. Mackey Arena in West Lafayette and Assembly Hall in Bloomington will also be used, the NCAA said. MORE: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/30650595/ncaa-men-basketball-tournament-played-entirely-indiana
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