Bracket Busting by Michael Ermitage Everyone’s an expert come NCAA tournament time. From Dick Vitale to Jan the secretary, everyone’s got an opinion on the bracket. Here’s my space to add mine. I call this bracket “The Logan Square Answer Key.” West No. 1 Arizona vs. No. 16 Vermont – […]
Month: March 2003
Mama’s Picks
Mama’s Picks by Jon Gonzalez (and Mama) Armed with only school names, records, seeds, coaches’ names, geographic locations, team colors and a miniscule amount of college basketball knowledge, my ninety year-old grandmother, Angela Lebron, is on a mission. Her goal: to predict every game in the NCAA Tournament. Starting with […]
How to Choose Your Bracket
How to Pick Your Bracket by Jed Tai The bracket has been announced and it’s now when the fun begins. Your office is having about 20 different tournament pools with tons of money at stake, and you want to kick serious butt on Hoopville’s bracket challenge as well. You’ve been […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman A Wild Week Out West The week started with the Mountain West conference hoping to secure a third NCAA Tournament bid. Utah and BYU were locks, but there were a few teams that still had a shot at the elusive third bid. Would UNLV […]
SWAC Notebook
Southwestern Athletic Conference Notebook by Kendrick Marshall The wild and wacky SWAC season has concluded in 2003 and it was a roller coaster ride to say the least. There were huge surprises and major disappointments along the way. Prairie View, who was picked to finish near the bottom of the […]
Big West Notebook
Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan Utah State Advances – As Predicted For once I was right. In last week’s column I said Utah State would win the conference title as the third seed, and indeed they did. Everything I predicted would happen did happen to a “T,” with […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 18, 2003 by Adam Shandler Not since the cancellation of Alice has a Lavin been this upset. (We hear Vic Tayback took it pretty hard, too.) It was a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately kind of year for UCLA head coach Steve Lavin, and after a 10-19 season, […]
Breaking It Down
Breaking it Down by Bill Thayer I don’t think there is anything that needs to be said to intro this. The field has been set. We know who is playing where and when…well, except for those crazy kids in the Spokane Pod. Here are my thoughts on the upcoming three-week […]
Hidden Headlines
Hidden Headlines of March Madness by Mitch Schneider In the next several days, you’ll hear and read prediction after prediction in regards to the upcoming NCAA Tournament. From Dick Vitale to Dick Cheney, it seems everybody and their mother will soon throw in their two cents as to what’s going […]
Play-In Game Preview
Previewing the Play-In Game by Phil Kasiecki For the third straight year, the NCAA Tournament has 65 teams, meaning there is a play-in game on Tuesday of the first week. This year’s play-in game, held in Dayton for the third straight year, will feature Big South champion UNC-Asheville (14-16) and […]
