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Saturday, December 28, 2024
George Washington’s experienced core of seniors Patricio Garino, Kevin Larsen and Joe McDonald has accomplished a lot in four years together, so adding another milestone to their careers and to the school’s history books is a fitting ending for the three.
Small, private, religious-based, and running an athletics department on a modest budget, Valparaiso is precisely the type of school that makes NCAA Division I basketball so much fun.
What to make of the first weekend of the 2016 NCAA Tournament? If there is one thing we witnessed over those four days (six including the play-in games) that can come close to being a fair generalization, it is that this year’s tourney has no one-size-fits-all quality to it. Maybe the only conclusion one can come to is there is no conclusion.
With the NCAA Tournament now on recess for a few days, the coaching merry-go-round is starting to spin again. Monday saw several vacancies filled, more created and rumors of still more to possibly come. The biggest moves both came in the Big 12, where TCU hired former Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon and Oklahoma State landed Stephen F. Austin’s Brad Underwood.
Defense wins championships and yadda yadda, but Saturday at the NCAA Tournament was a day when offenses were on full display and took center stage in every game.
The beauty of the NCAA Tournament is not just the upsets, the near-upsets and the close games. Of course, they certainly are a big part of it, and we saw at least two of those categories tapped in games Thursday such as those between Yale and Baylor, Arkansas-Little Rock and […]
Two days into the 2015 NCAA Tournament have felt kind of like trying to start up the family roadster after she’s been sitting idle in the garage for a couple years. It’s taking a little time to get the engine warmed up, but slowly it’s getting back up to speed.
The last we saw of Vanderbilt this season is bound to leave a sour taste in the mouths of not just its fans, but virtually everyone who follows college basketball and expected so much of the Commodores this year. Just the same, it should also leave NCAA Tournament selection committee members with a serious case of bitter beer face, too.
The NCAA Tournament’s First Four started the tourney with a whimper on Tuesday, and it ended Tuesday night with a whimper as well.
It turns out people do appreciate the National Invitation Tournament after all, far more than universally assumed. All it took was a little postseason saturation-the same thing that college football somehow seems immune to.
