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Sports Central
January 19, 2009
Ross Lancaster |
The Year of the Major Conference In college basketball, this year may go down as the Year of the Major Conference.   |
Sports Central
February 23, 2009
Andrew Jones |
March Madness Conference Predictions Here's a look at who will potentially represent each conference, focusing especially on the mid-majors and who actually has some potential to make it past the first weekend. |
Sports Central
March 11, 2009
Seth Doria |
The NCAA Bubble Shuffle With so many conference championships going on this week, it's easy to lose focus on the few games that hold the most meaning. But there are other games that serve as critical dominos in the dance before The Dance - call it the bubble shuffle. |
Sports Central
January 19, 2011
Adam Russell |
Pac-10: Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen The once-mighty Pac-10 is in a sad state of disrepair these days, and there's not much hope on the horizon as the conference expands to 12 teams next season. |
Sports Central
October 23, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
College Football Midterm Report There are three teams that, as expected, are very good if not great. |
Sports Central
June 8, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
Expansion Talk Sweeping the Nation What happens over the next few months could definitely change the landscape of college football. |
Sports Central
May 19, 2011
Kevin Beane |
Early-Season College Hoops Matchups It takes until pretty close to the season for all the Division 1 schools to say, "okay, here is our schedule" to where it can be reliably released to the media. |
Sports Central
November 22, 2011
Joshua Duffy |
NCAA Men's Hoops About to Get Crazy Ask a diehard NBA fan what the true tragedy of the NBA lockout is, and they'll tell you it comes at the worst possible time. |
Sports Central
February 4, 2013
Andrew Jones |
NCAA Contenders and Pretenders As of the week 13 rankings released on January 28, 10 teams have been in the AP top five at one point or another this season: Michigan, Kansas, Indiana, Florida, Duke, Syracuse, Louisville, Arizona, Ohio State, and Kentucky. |
Sports Central
December 5, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
Who's Impressed So Far? In college basketball, Texas, Duke, and Butler have been extremely impressive and could be big players at the end of the season. |
Sports Central
November 16, 2007
Kyle Jahner |
Ducking a Kansas Comet So how many losses will the teams in the BCS title game in New Orleans have? |
Sports Central
August 14, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
Answering the Major/Mid-Major Question Deciding what conferences belong in the mid-major and major categories. |
Sports Central
March 25, 2009
Ross Lancaster |
Missed Opportunities and No Cinderella The media-driven creation of parity in college basketball is dead. |
Sports Central
April 11, 2012
Jonathan Lowe |
"Logic" Problems? It happens in every sport and at every level. In the days following a season, pink slips are shown to coaches that haven't lived up to their potential (and haven't built up their teams to said potential). College basketball is no different. |
Sports Central
October 1, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Ranking College Football Conferences There are too few games in the college football season for a subjective ranking system to matter all too much. |
Sports Central
February 16, 2010
Corrie Trouw |
A Horse Race in the Heartland In the ultra-competitive heartland, there's a slugfest for the conference title. Entering this week, an improbable five Big Ten heavyweights still had a clear path to the title belt. |
Sports Central
December 22, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
Atlantic Coast Calamity As of last week, the ACC had just one ranked team, normally an unthinkable phenomenon in most seasons approaching the holidays and conference play for everybody. |
Sports Central
February 20, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
The Season to Expect the Unexpected As a college basketball fan, I can't begin to keep track of the number of times someone has told me, "The regular season doesn't mean anything. I'm just waiting for the tournament to start." No, I would always say or think. |
Sports Central
January 16, 2013
Greg Suttich |
March Madness Starts in January As we near the end of another NFL football season, we start to feel the blues. But then March comes and the event called March Madness gets us back on our couches cheering and fist-bumping over our favorite team while keeping our brackets and a pen within arms reach. |
Sports Central
November 20, 2007
Jean Neuberger |
Hidden Valley You have to love the parody in college basketball. |
Sports Central
March 3, 2011
Paul Foeller |
Here We Go Again Even the top of the conference is anything but a sure bet against quality opponents. |
Sports Central
January 6, 2010
Andrew Jones |
Realigning College Football's Conferences The Big Ten announced last month that it would be seeking an expansion from 11 to 12. |
Sports Illustrated
February 20, 2001
Seth Davis |
Bubble Trouble With so many bids to the NCAAs locked up, the fight for the remaining few will be frenzied... |
Sports Central
December 12, 2008
Brad Oremland |
How John Swofford Killed the BCS Another column whining about how college football needs to reform its Division I postseason -- and offering a proposal that has no chance of becoming reality. |
Sports Central
February 4, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
Appearing on the Radar: February Over the next few weeks, numerous journalists, experts, and regular peeps will make their guesses on who will make it into this year's hollowed bracket. Like the previous few seasons, the mid-major conferences are starting to field some tourney-worthy squads. |
Sports Central
January 14, 2009
Jean Neuberger |
As the Ball Bounces If change is the new theme of 2009, college basketball has been years ahead of its time. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2006
Kevin Beane |
The New Trends of College Basketball In the Big East, bet on Marquette at home... In SEC country, I like how LSU, like Virginia Tech, seems to have something to prove... In the Pac-10, go with the underdog in rivalry games... etc. |
Sports Central
March 11, 2010
Vito Curcuru |
9 Reasons to Expand the NCAA Tournament It's time for the NCAA tournament to expand to 347. |
Sports Central
March 24, 2009
Wailele Sallas |
Lessons Learned From March Madness Never underestimate the 'nobody believed in us' angle... Don't get caught up in the madness... The Big 10 is overrated!... The Big East is for real!... etc. |
Sports Central
August 5, 2013
Jean Neuberger |
Beefing Up Schedules It was a packed house at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham, listening to SEC Commissioner Mike Slive talk about basketball. |
Sports Central
November 12, 2008
Ross Lancaster |
A Quiet, Exciting Beginning You don't have to be one of these huge college hoops fans to know that North Carolina is the prohibitive favorite to take home the title. |
Sports Central
February 11, 2009
Jean Neuberger |
Taking Bracket Notes College basketball seems to be at a quiet roar this year. |
Sports Central
December 11, 2013
Andrew Jones |
Six Mid-Majors to Watch Come March We'll take a look at basketball teams who have been traditionally looked at as mid-majors (though that may be changing for some of them in the very near future) and look at their chances to make some serious noise come March. |
Sports Central
October 26, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
Hoops Preview: Firing Up the Fanaticism Bring on the tip, the dunks, the stuffs, the long bombs, and the atmosphere. It's go time... almost. |
Sports Central
December 24, 2012
Corrie Trouw |
A League of Their Own These are the end days of the current college sports conference structure. Recent developments have all-but-assured the destruction of the Big East, and even best of breeds like the SEC and Big Ten will look much different than their obsessively regional previous incarnations. |
Sports Central
February 12, 2004
Piet Van Leer |
New Rules For March Madness There is but one sporting event that lives up to its annual hype -- March Madness. The first Thursday of the NCAA Tournament should be a national holiday. Here are some new rules for those who care about following the tournament. |
Sports Central
April 9, 2014
Jonathan Lowe |
Tourney Learning For the second time in four years, and the fourth time in 16 seasons, the Huskies became the rulers of men's college basketball (only to be joined by the women's team Tuesday night). |
Sports Central
December 31, 2004
Doug Graham |
A Mid-Majors Blueprint For Success This season, several of St. Joseph basketball coach Phil Martelli's burdens have been lifted. |
Sports Central
February 15, 2008
Brian Cox |
All the Rage of Mid-Majors Mid-majors are now, in some cases, mainstays around Top 25 polls, and within the respectable range in RPI rankings. Here are five mid-majors teams to be mindful of. |
Sports Central
February 3, 2011
Andrew Jones |
Tourney Expansion: Is Bigger Better? If expansion of the NCAA college basketball tournament continues, inconsistencies will need to be addressed so that the dream of Cinderella can stay alive. |
Sports Central
October 15, 2007
Adam Russell |
Is Pac-10's Parity Mediocrity or Strength? Was the Pac-10 Conference worth its mettle this season - or was just another year of mediocrity? |
Sports Central
November 29, 2010
Jonathan Lowe |
A Chance to Give Thanks Bright spots in each college football division. |
Sports Central
August 28, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
State of the Imperfect, But Glorious, Union I'm happier that college football is arriving next week than Donte Stallworth on sentencing day. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
The Hidden Exhibition Season Why don't we voice the same complaints about college basketball's exhibition season as we do for pro football's pre-season? |
Sports Central
March 24, 2010
Jonathan Lowe |
Back to the Future Some Sweet 16 thoughts on what's past and coming up. |
Sports Central
October 27, 2004
Adam Russell |
Facelift in Order For College Football What college football needs is a complete overhaul of how it's structured, from the conference alignments to how the schedules are made up to determining a playoff system. |
Sports Central
March 18, 2008
Seth Doria |
2008 NCAA Tournament Preview Two days till the greatest weekend of the sporting year. Here are some thoughts on the bracket. |
Sports Central
March 17, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
Sports Central's Roundball Roundtable Sports writers compare notes and predictions about college basketball. |
Sports Central
March 11, 2013
Andrew Jones |
Is This the Year a 16 Beats a 1? One of my favorite aspects of the NCAA men's basketball tournament to predict is what will be the biggest upset in the first (well, I guess now we call it the second) round of the tournament. It seems like each time we have a new number one, they lose. |
Sports Central
April 7, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
NCAA Tournament Winners and Losers From the first day until the last heave by Gordon Heyward that just missed, March Madness outdid itself this year. |
