NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos March 10, 2007 With 14 of the 30 conference tournaments complete, there are 11 more automatic bids at stake today, and five more champions will be crowned Sunday afternoon. As at-large bids become a scarce commodity, here’s a look at […]
Author: Michael Protos
Crystal Basketball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos March 9, 2007 There are less than 72 hours remaining until the selection committee finalizes all its picks, but for the bubble teams, it will feel longer than a Georgia Tech/Wake Forest double overtime ACC Tournament classic. As we enter […]
Crystal Basketball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos March 7, 2007 There are just four days left until the selection committee makes all its picks. Here are the most important questions facing Crystal Basketballers Dan Hauptman, Michael Protos and the soon-to-be-convening NCAA committee. In the wake of Butler’s […]
Crystal Basketball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos March 5, 2007 There are 52 weeks in a year. There are 52 playing cards in a deck. If every week represents a card, then the upcoming week is the Ace of Spades for Crystal Basketballers Dan Hauptman and Michael […]
Crystal Basketball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos March 2, 2007 Remembering back to high school math, the underrated and underutilized Law of Syllogism works as follows: If p is greater than q, and q is greater than r, then logically, p is greater than r. Using this […]
Crystal Basketball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos Feb. 23, 2007 Selection Sunday is barely two weeks away, conference tournaments commence next week, and bubble teams throughout the land are getting nervous. It must be late February. As several conferences wrap up their regular seasons this weekend, the […]
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos As we enter the final two weeks of the regular season, several ACC teams feel comfortable that their NCAA Tournament invitations are in the mail. Others, however, are desperately trying to deliver polished performances that will catch the eye of NCAA Tournament selection […]
Crystal Basketball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos Feb. 16, 2007 This week, before gazing into Hoopville’s Crystal Basketball, Hoops 101 professors Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos ate their apples, put on their elbow-patched blazers and studied the recent history of the six major conferences. When surfing the […]
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos With less than three weeks remaining in the regular season, a slew of ACC teams are jockeying for position near the top of the standings. Besides the likely right to an NCAA Tournament at-large bid, a top four finish in the ACC also […]
Crystal Basketball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos Feb. 9, 2007 When gazing into Hoopville’s Crystal Basketball this week, Dan Hauptman and Michael Protos could not stop from having vivid flashbacks to the early 1990s. Their walk down Nostalgia Lane leads the duo to 1992 and the Hubert […]
