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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Sometimes, our best-laid plans just flop. In March, this writer rolled out a historical series looking at NCAA Tournament at-large selection and the proverbial ‘bubble’, examining teams just above and below the cutline in the tourney every year from 1985 through 2019. The series ran in early March, five years […]
Does college basketball enjoy testing fans’ patience?. The sport needs less instant replay, not more, and the month of March this year showed just why.
Before the 2020 Selection Sunday that would never come due to the NCAA’s response to the COVID-19 virus, Hoopville’s Adam Glatczak looked at the history of the NCAA Tournament bubble in the era of the 64+ team tournament field, from 1985 up to present.
Many teams miss out on the NCAA Tournament every year. Some are very close to getting in. Some are agonizingly close. Here is a list of 16 of the very nearest misses for the NCAA Tournament since the tourney’s expansion to 64 teams in 1985.
We conclude our extensive year-by-year looks at NCAA Tournament and Selection Sunday bubbles over the last 35 years by revisiting recent history, the last five years of tournament selection 2015-19.
Part 6 of our year-by-year deep dives looking at the NCAA Tournament bubbles past brings us to the years 2010-14. The 68-team tourney arrives, TV commentators go ballistic about VCU’s selection in its Final Four year, and inspired picks in 2012 and 2013 are followed by a decided shift in committee philosophy the next year.
Drake made history Friday, becoming the first team to ever knock off a No. 1 seed in the MVC Tournament quarterfinals with a shocking defeat of Northern Iowa.
It was far from pretty, but even with star Javon Freeman-Liberty not at his best Valparaiso toughed out a win over Evansville in the 2020 MVC Tournament first round Thursday night
Part 5 of our series recalling, researching and reviewing NCAA Tournament Selection Sundays of the past looks at the years 2005-09. Included: Jim Nantz and Billy Packer tee off on the MVC and CAA in 2006, the same year the Valley got four bids but probably (our opinion) should’ve had six.
Drake closed the regular season on a three-game losing skid but bounced back in its 2020 MVC Tournament opener behind a balanced effort. Next up: top seed Northern Iowa.
