Although the financial implications make NCAA Tournament expansion a near inevitability, the NCAA decision-makers should seriously consider the ramifications of watering down the quality of the best post-season tournament in sports.
Month: March 2010
Some Younger Talent at this Top 100
This year’s spring Hoop Group Top 100 at Boston University featured some good young talent, more so than in past years.
Bracket Breakdown: Pac-10, Mid-Majors Show the Big East the Door
If last weekend taught us nothing else, it’s that we can’t count out any team, from any conference, this season. The Sweet 16 and Elite Eight could easily feature upsets as shocking as some of the ones we have witnessed thus far.
Bracket Breakdown: Kansas’ Upset Follows Scary Trend for Jayhawk Fans
At face value, No. 9-seed Northern Iowa’s second-round knockout of the favorite to win the national championship looks like one of the biggest upsets of the past 10 years. In retrospect, coach Bill Self’s Jayhawks might be chronic underachievers.
City All-Star Game Sees It All Late
The Boston City League All-Star Classic had plenty of drama and saw it all late in regulation and in overtime, before the team that led just about all game finally pulled it out.
In the NIT, Different Feelings Can Lead to Surprises
Being in the NIT means different things for different programs. In part because of that, every year there’s an NIT surprise or two, often one that involves a team that almost made the NCAA Tournament putting up a clunker when they bow out.
Bracket Breakdown: How the SEC Will Fare
It’s Kentucky and everyone else in the SEC. The teams’ performances in the NCAA Tournament will prove that point.
Bracket Breakdown: How the Mountain West Will Fare
Despite a great season in which four Mountain West teams received NCAA Tournament bids, none of them has a good draw to make a deep run.
Bracket Breakdown: How the Pac-10 Will Fare
The only two Pac-10 teams to reach the NCAA Tournament will test their mettle against two middle-of-the-pack Big East teams. That might not go well.
Bracket Breakdown: How the Big East Will Fare
The Big East once again has a bunch of highly seeded teams and a chance to place more than one team in the Final Four. But the match ups look daunting for several heavyweights.
