While most basketball fans this weekend were occupied by the NCAA Tournament, a number of high school players in New England made their way to Boston University for the Hoop Group Top 100. The camp featured two days of drills and games, and some good talent was on hand for the Division II and III coaches who came to check it out.

Some notes and general thoughts from the games played on the second day of the NCAA Tournament, including an unsung hero, a coach who’s back to normal, a senior persevering in a victory, and a feast or famine team exiting the tournament.

Some notes and general thoughts from the games played on the first day of the NCAA Tournament, including an unknown player with a big game, a coach who’s quietly had success again, and a couple of seniors whose careers outside the spotlight came to an end.

March is the best month of the year and it’s because of college basketball. But there’s also something really annoying that happens at this time of the year, and this time around it’s a little magnified by a phenomenon that’s been going on all season long.

It is that time of the year when my e-mail inbox and Facebook inbox are loaded with offers to get in NCAA Bracket Challenges and office pools. Some are for fun and some are for money, but all of them offer heartbreak and frustration. Last year for the first time in years I did not fill out a NCAA Tournament Bracket ahead of the actual tournament.

In this world of instant gratification, it would not have been a surprise if Leonard Hamilton didn’t last five or six years at Florida State, let alone the seventh year that he is currently in. That would be unfortunate considering what has happened in that seventh year.

It is that time of the year again, the first two days of the NCAA Tournament where they inconveniently schedule games during business hours on Thursday and Friday. For some employees catching the games is as simple as taking a paid day off or doing what I used to do, schedule an out of town business trip to allow you to take care of some important business like watching college hoops.

Florida State had a season with great progress and some breakthroughs. But they couldn’t get one more just yet, as Duke won another ACC title with a 79-69 win over the Seminoles on Sunday.

Florida State has managed to get over the hump in several ways this season. On Saturday, they got their latest as they advanced to the ACC championship game.