NCAA – South Region 1 Preview by David Mosse Duke vs. Winthrop For an NCAA Tournament record fifth consecutive year, the Duke Blue Devils earned a top seed. In their four previous first round games, their margin of victory was 36 points. So don’t expect Winthrop to become the first […]
Conference Notes
NCAA South Region 2
NCAA South Region 2 Preview by Jonathan Gonzalez Batten down the hatches and put the kids to bed because it’s Tourney time, baby (sounds like something Dicky V would say, huh?). After all the pre-season tournaments, league seasons, and conference championships, the Big Dance is finally here, and what a […]
Patriot League Notebook
Patriot League Tournament Wrap-up Crusdaders Capture Patriot League Holy Grail…Again. With an 18-14 record, a lock on first place throughout the regular season and players held over from their CAA days, American U. was the sensible pick to win the Patriot League Championship. But in DC on Friday, March 8, […]
Ivy League Wrap-Up
Ivy League Playoff Wrap-Up Not So Much “Penn Wins” as “Yale Loses” Yale tried to become the first team other than Princeton and Penn since 1988 to play their way into the tourney. It didn’t happen. On March 9th, in an Ivy playoff game hosted by Lafayette, Yale had their […]
West Coast Notebook
West Coast Tournament Review Another Title The Waves couldn’t manage to put out Dan Dickau’s second half fire, as the Zags took their fourth straight WCC tournament title. After a very sluggish first half and start of the second, Dickau and backcourt mate Blake Stepp finally got loose and closed […]
Pac 10 Tournament
Dispatch from Pac-10 Land by Phil Kasiecki Friday’s Pac Ten semifinal matchups both came down to the final minutes, setting the stage for what should be a great championship game on Saturday. Both games featured two teams relatively evenly matched, just like the championship game will. In the first semifinal, […]
Pac-10 Tournament Preview
Pac-10 Tournament Preview The Pacific Ten figured to be a good race for the top in 2001-02, and it lived up to that billing better than most thought in the preseason. Entering the final weekend, two games separated first place from sixth place, and in the end, only three games […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook Oy Vey! League This is why you have postseason tournaments in the first place. With Penn’s 64-48 win over Princeton at the Palestra on March 5, three teams in the Ivy League finished the regular season with 11-3 records: Penn, Princeton and Yale. Now the league must […]
Mountain West Tournament Preview
Mountain West Tournament Preview Cowboys capture regular season title Wyoming won the regular season title with 57-56 win over second place Utah Saturday March 1st. The Cowboys win gave them the league’s first outright regular season champ in the conference’s three-year history. This also marks the first time a team […]
Big 12 Tournament Preview
Big 12 Tournament Preview This much is clear: Six teams (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Missouri) are marching on. The other six teams (Nebraska, Kansas State, Colorado, Baylor, Iowa State, Texas A&M) are relegated to spoiler status. Six in. Six out. That type of competitive symmetry might […]
