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Sports Central
February 7, 2006
Adam Russell |
Gonzaga's Secret Formula For Success Gonzaga could contend for a national title in college basketball this year.   |
Sports Central
January 2, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
Gonzaga's New Year's Resolution An assessment of the Gonzaga Bulldog's chances of reaching the NCAA tournament's Final Four. |
Sports Central
November 20, 2007
Jean Neuberger |
Hidden Valley You have to love the parody in college basketball. |
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
October 1, 2005
Alan Rubenstein |
College Basketball's Measure of Success The key to long-term success, it seems, is to have a big-name coach who can recruit nationally and build a big-name program. |
Sports Central
December 27, 2004
Eric Williams |
College Hoops Holiday Wish Lists For the Kansas Jayhawks, a healthy Wayne Simien... For the USC Trojans, a head coach... For the George Washington Colonels, more publicity.... For the Gonzaga Bulldogs, more national respect... etc. |
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
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 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
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 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
November 5, 2007
Corrie Trouw |
NCAA Basketball Program Power Rankings This NCAA hoops program power ranking forms a ladder for coaching ascension. |
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
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
February 6, 2008
Jonathan Lowe |
Who's Making Headlines? Thank goodness for college basketball. At least something is heating up as we get into February. |
Sports Central
January 7, 2012
Jonathan Lowe |
Becoming a True Cinderella These are the programs that help make March special in the realm of sports. Their journeys to the NCAA tournament, along with their attempts to knock off the traditional giants, help to build the brand of the Big Dance. |
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
March 11, 2006
Ryan Hojnacki |
The Teams That Will Break Hearts A list of 10 high-seeded teams in the NCAA tournament who will not cut the nets down in St. Louis. |
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
March 6, 2005
Alan Rubenstein |
Championship Week Begins the Madness The 2005 conference tournaments will have many interesting plots and sub-plots to follow. Some teams will be jockeying for a place into the NCAA Tournament, while others want to solidify their seed. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2015
Corrie Trouw |
No More Goliaths College basketball's Davids might not stand level to its Goliaths, but their sling-arms are yoked. |
Sports Central
March 25, 2009
Ross Lancaster |
Missed Opportunities and No Cinderella The media-driven creation of parity in college basketball is dead. |
Sports Illustrated
March 12, 2002
Seth Davis |
Committee relies too much on RPI As long as we're stuck with this system, the Ratings Percentage Index, for ranking college basketball teams, let's at least be honest about it. The RPI is not objective, it hurts the mid-majors and it matters. A lot... |
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 Illustrated
February 20, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Gonzaga's seed distort Where, oh where, do the Zags belong in the NCAA basketball tournament? |
Sports Central
March 26, 2015
Jean Neuberger |
Outgrowing the Glass Slipper Though Gonzaga's earned it for years now, while Wichita made their emphatic statement last Sunday, they both share the same title as we head into the regional semifinals. |
Sports Central
February 1, 2005
Alan Rubenstein |
Players Flying Under the Radar to Watch Most in college basketball are familiar with the exploits of Dee Brown, Raymond Felton, J.J. Reddick, Chris Paul, and Hakim Warrick, but there are many other stars in college basketball who are leading their teams to outstanding seasons. |
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 Illustrated
March 26, 2001
Jack McCallum |
Wise Owl Chaney should keep on keeping on... |
Salon.com
March 19, 2001
King Kaufman |
The beat-down round The upsets of the NCAA Tournament's first two days give way to order being restored over the weekend, but there are still some thrills. |
Sports Central
February 11, 2009
Jean Neuberger |
Taking Bracket Notes College basketball seems to be at a quiet roar this year. |
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 Illustrated
March 12, 2001
Grant Wahl |
Bracket breakdown Things to keep an eye on as you gear up for NCAAs... |
Sports Illustrated
December 12, 2001
Grant Wahl |
Controversy over coaches I should have known my list of the top 15 coaches in the game today would have drawn a record number of replies to the 'Bag, but I really had no idea it would be a deluge of Biblical proportions... |
BusinessWeek
March 25, 2010
Jason Zengerle |
March Payday Madness No one makes more money from the annual NCAA tournament than big-time college basketball coaches. Are they worth their astronomical paychecks? |
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 Illustrated
February 8, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Ending the Jacobsen/Dunleavy debate They're both great players and I'm a moron for driving a wedge where there was no need for one... |
Salon.com
March 22, 2001
Luc Hatlestad |
March Madness: Not so mad All those "upsets" are exciting, but they're only "upsets" because the selection committee hasn't realized that the mid-major teams that keep their players are really good. |
Sports Central
March 17, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
Sports Central's Roundball Roundtable Sports writers compare notes and predictions about college basketball. |
Sports Illustrated
December 13, 2001
Seth Davis |
Off base The 5/8 rule, which limits schools to awarding five basketball scholarships in any given year and eight in a two-year period, is a good thing -- unless you're a coach... |
Sports Central
April 1, 2013
Jonathan Lowe |
Home ... Where the Hoops Are If Gregg Marshall decides to hold to his promise to stay at Wichita State through 2018, this would only seem to continue a growing trend of coaches that aren't leaving to look for a better job. |
Sports Illustrated
June 4, 2003
Kelli Anderson |
Inside College Basketball: High-Stepping With his scintillating all-court game, Gonzaga guard Blake Stepp shone at the Pan Am Games trials |
Sports Illustrated
March 20, 2001
Grant Wahl |
Quick triggers Athletic directors have lost all sense of reality - coaches in college basketball get way too much credit and take way too much blame |
Sports Central
March 25, 2004
Doug Graham |
How's That For Madness? Comments on the March Madness basketball playoffs. |
Sports Central
April 2, 2007
Seth Doria |
NCAA Men's Basketball Review Observations from the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament and a few predictions for next year. |
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 Illustrated
December 19, 2001
Grant Wahl |
Perfect possibilities Examining the chances of seeing an undefeated season by a college basketball team... |
Sports Central
October 30, 2012
Jonathan Lowe |
Early Tourneys: The Heavy Hitters The "infant" tourneys seem to be on a rotation of which one gets the studded lineup. This year, two selections are headlining the new wave. |
Sports Central
March 11, 2004
Jonathan Lowe |
Spreading the Bubble Bug Infection Overall, college basketball has its great moments, but there is one thing wrong with the sport: its schedule runs hand-in-hand with the dead of winter. And along with the cold, snow, and bitter winds, come the illness that never seems to leave. |
Sports Illustrated
March 21, 2000
Tim Crothers |
Chat Reel: SI's Tim Crothers This week, Tim discussed Tournament sleepers, his Final Four picks and some of the nation's top players. |
