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Sunday, December 22, 2024
NEW YORK – For the third time in the last four years St. John’s and Georgetown met in the Big East Tournament. Familiarity brings contempt? Back in the day this was a blood and guts rivalry. Not so much today, but that does not undersell the importance of the meeting. […]
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.
The SEC Tournament beckons, and most teams appear to have both reasons for optimism and reasons to be concerned.
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.
As the regular season finishes for all teams and only conference tournament games remain before the postseason, we look at how a number of conferences finished and some coaching news.
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
In our latest podcast, we talk about a close call in the Mountain West Tournament and most of the power conferences being largely undecided heading into the final days before conference tournaments are the only game in town.
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.
