Spring travel tournaments are on deck by Phil Kasiecki Nowadays, there is no off-season as regards the sport of college basketball. Not only is there plenty of news even once the games have ended, but traveling team basketball at the high school level becomes a focus as well as kids […]
Author: Phil Kasiecki
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 27th Cardinals Outlast Mountaineers, First In: For most of a half, it looked like West Virginia would keep rolling. The Mountaineers made 10-of-14 three-pointers in the first half, including some deep shots, and led 38-18 at one point before Louisville cut into the lead […]
Michigan State’s Incentive
Spartans Have Plenty to Play For by Phil Kasiecki When your team has to play one of the Cinderella stories of the tournament, things aren’t easy. Any fans who are neutral will swing to the underdog’s side, and it’s easy for people to forget that your team has some incentive […]
Connecticut’s Season of Adversity
A trying season ends by Phil Kasiecki WORCESTER, Mass. – Defending champions are never supposed to have it easy the next season. It’s tough to repeat for a lot of reasons, but for the Connecticut Huskies, the 2004-05 season was perhaps an extreme case of this. With Sunday’s 65-62 loss, […]
Austin Second Round Recap
Second Round Recap – Austin Region by Phil Kasiecki WORCESTER, Mass. – Michigan State scored the last eight points of the first half to take the lead for good en route to a 72-61 win over Vermont, advancing to the Sweet 16 for the sixth time in the last eight […]
UCF Moves Forward
It’s a good time to move ahead by Phil Kasiecki WORCESTER, Mass. – Teams seeded 15th in a particular region aren’t necessarily expected to have close games against the No. 2 seeds. Upsets in that matchup have only happened four times, so the casual observer isn’t figuring to even see […]
Questions for Syracuse
What does next year hold for Syracuse? by Phil Kasiecki WORCESTER, Mass. – This wasn’t how things were supposed to go for Syracuse. The Orange had a veteran team that included key holdovers from their 2003 national championship team. To go with that, they have a very promising sophomore class, […]
Tom Brennan’s Retirement
Brennan will be missed by college basketball by Phil Kasiecki WORCESTER, Mass. – He sure knew how to make an entrance, whether it was in Burlington at a regular season home game, or on the day before the NCAA Tournament got started. Famous for entering the floor before games at […]
Austin First Round Recap
First Round Recap – Austin Region by Phil Kasiecki WORCESTER, Mass. – Alan Anderson and Paul Davis combined to make four free throws in the final 43 seconds to help Michigan State to an 89-81 win over Old Dominion in first round action. The final game of the day in […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 20th Texas Tech Advances: In the first game of the day, Ronald Ross scored 24 points, including the go-ahead three-pointer with 1:06 to play and two clinching free throws with 7.5 seconds left to lead Texas Tech to a 71-69 win over Gonzaga. Jarrius […]
