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Sports Central
October 13, 2011
Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Basketball Preview As the college football season gets into full swing, we will soon have yet another "favorite sports time of the year" for this writer.   |
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
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
February 16, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
Five Simple Rules For Picking a National Champ Which teams are contenders in the NCAA basketball tournament? Well, if past tournaments are any indication, we can eliminate quite a few candidates right now with a few rules. |
Sports Central
March 12, 2012
Andrew Jones |
NCAA Tournament Thoughts and Provocations I love the NCAA tournament. This week is my favorite week in the entire year. From Selection Sunday until the final game the following Sunday, I am addicted to basketball. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2006
Chris Cornell |
Sifting Through the Madness March Madness is one of the most over-used phrases in sports, but never has a tournament so lived up to the adage. |
Sports Central
February 24, 2011
Kevin Beane |
The Greatest College Sports Upsets I'm a connoisseur of upsets. If it's not one of my favorite teams playing, I almost always root for the underdog. |
Sports Central
March 1, 2006
Andre Watson |
College Basketball Thoughts Revisited As we head into March Madness, the Big East is the strongest conference in the country. |
Sports Central
February 8, 2012
Andrew Jones |
Why Murray State Deserves a No. 1 Seed Murray State is 23-0. They have beaten one ranked team (Memphis) and only face one more before the end of the season (Saint Mary's). They currently hold a No. 7 ranking in the USA Today Poll and a No. 9 ranking in the AP poll. |
Sports Central
March 17, 2011
Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: NCAA Tourney Bric-A-Bracketology What happens in the dark room once the NCAA Selection Committee convenes? |
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Top 10: Highest Paid College Basketball Coaches Take a look at what the top ten highest paid college basketball coaches, out of those programs that made the 2006 NCAA tournament, were getting in salary and perks, and what they've done to merit that level of compensation. |
Sports Central
April 6, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
The Tournament Team The NCAA tournament has proven not only that a variety of players with differing talent levels can win a title, but that there are an infinite number of ways to win the necessary games. |
Sports Central
July 30, 2009
Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Basketball Preview I have carved an enjoyable niche both for my column and for my own idiosyncratic tendencies by previewing the first week of both college football and basketball months in advance, well before anyone else. |
Sports Central
March 26, 2014
Andrew Jones |
Bracket Patterns The opening four days of the 2014 NCAA were about as good as it gets in the world of sports. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Brandon Lang |
March Madness: Final Four Predictions The tournament's underdogs continue to bark loud. |
Sports Central
January 30, 2006
Andre Watson |
Random College Basketball Thoughts Surprises in the ACC... Blunders in the Big East... Knockout in Knoxville?... NCAA should do something about scheduling... |
Sports Central
January 18, 2006
Alfons Prince |
One Conference Standing Alone The Big East has shown through the first couple of weeks of 2006, that it is the best conference in college basketball. |
Sports Central
January 5, 2004
Brian Cook |
Spartans' Lofty Expectations Have Them NIT-Bound Why did Michigan State men's college basketball coach Tom Izzo saddle his team with a Bataan Death March of a schedule? For the same reason AP pollsters ranked the Spartans third in the preseason: both horribly overrated Izzo himself. |
Sports Central
November 29, 2004
Eric Williams |
First Impressions of the New Season The college basketball season has started anew and the first impressions of the new season have been made. |
Sports Central
March 15, 2010
Corrie Trouw |
Your Date For the Big Dance When you fill out your brackets, pick upsets with confidence. And, of course, pay attention to this analysis. |
Sports Central
December 22, 2009
Paul Foeller |
Early Season Review: What We've Learned Even in a season where so much is uncertain, we do know some things without a doubt. |
Sports Central
November 28, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
Early Tourneys Over the BCS? March Madness has the BCS beat, hands-down. But there seems to be more potential for excitement and hope as sneakers squeak for the first time in months. |
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
September 30, 2011
Andrew Jones |
2011-12 College Basketball Preview As the NBA lockout makes little progress and rumors about players heading overseas abound, college basketball awaits, ready to play because you can't get locked out when you don't make any money. |
Sports Central
February 9, 2012
Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Football Preview As I do every year in this space, I look ahead and present my preview of the next college football season, which happens to be the earliest such preview known to man. |
Sports Central
March 22, 2010
Scott Shepherd |
Why March Madness is Overrated Not only do I not believe that everyone loves March Madness, I'm not sold on the fact that they even believe it. |
Sports Central
April 12, 2006
Michael Beshara |
In Defense of the BCS As enjoyable as college basketball's March Madness may be, college football's BCS provides the opportunity for both a more exciting and more just crowning of a national champion. |
Sports Central
March 21, 2006
Matt Russell |
Madness Geographied: Weekend in Review Comments and predictions about the NCAA basketball tournament. |
Sports Central
November 16, 2011
Andrew Jones |
College Basketball 2011-12 Buy or Sell The college basketball season is now underway and there is a lot of speculation floating around about if certain teams are for real and if early losses or close calls are just flukes. |
Sports Central
April 1, 2006
Alan Rubenstein |
Indy's Had Unlikely Final Fours Before It should come as no surprise that the surviving teams advanced to the Circle City with a twist. Indianapolis produced the only other Final Four without a number one seed. |
Sports Illustrated
February 28, 2000 |
Chat Reel: Tim Crothers College basketball - lack of depth will haunt Duke |
Sports Central
April 9, 2013
Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From the 2013 NCAA Tournament With the hangovers still pounding in Louisville (and Ann Arbor), the 2013 NCAA tournament is in the books. Despite the dramatics in Monday night's finale, it wasn't a pretty tournament. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2007
Ronald Clements |
Number one vs. Number two Wisconsin takes on Ohio State in the NCAA finals. |
Sports Central
November 11, 2013
Andrew Jones |
Bold Predictions For 2014 March Madness The college basketball season is underway and so far there have been few surprises. There are some familiar names in the preseason rankings. Indeed, it is a veritable who's who of 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. |
Salon.com
March 12, 2002
King Kaufman |
Open the NCAA Tournament to all comers A 324-team field would add excitement and give hope to underdogs. Almost as good, it'd get rid of the dumb conference championships... |
Sports Central
December 4, 2006
Seth Doria |
NCAA Tournament Sleeper Watch Here is a list of "underdog" teams capable of making at least a Sweet 16 run as an eight-seed or lower in the 2007 NCAA tournament. |
Sports Illustrated
December 19, 2001
Grant Wahl |
Perfect possibilities Examining the chances of seeing an undefeated season by a college basketball team... |
Sports Central
April 3, 2014
Jean Neuberger |
Final Four: Throw the Stats Out Most NCAA tournaments are hard to predict ... it's why Warren Buffett threw down a billion-dollar challenge to the nation. This year's version, however, might've surpassed them all. |
Sports Central
March 18, 2005
Kevin Ferra |
The Big East: The Bigger Domination Big East basketball doesn't get nearly the credit, prestige, or overall recognition for being a dominant basketball, if not the most dominant college basketball conference the league has seen recently. |
Sports Illustrated
December 18, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions I admire teams such as Michigan State, Kentucky, Duke, Illinois, Arizona and North Carolina for playing such difficult non-conference schedules. Coaches know that come tournament time it will pay off, even if it means a couple more losses... |
Sports Central
February 6, 2005
Adam Russell |
History Against Unbeaten Teams In what has seemed like a topsy-turvy year in college basketball, with ranked teams knocking each other off almost nightly, there has remained two constants: Illinois and Boston College. |
Sports Central
February 18, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
Wouldn't Touch it With a 25-Team Poll Do we need to have a top 25 poll in college basketball? |
Sports Illustrated
November 27, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions It has been a wild year in college football, and any one of the Top 25 teams could make a run at the title if a playoff existed. Since one doesn't, we already know only three teams have a chance to be crowned national champions. College basketball is another story, though... |
Sports Illustrated
December 11, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions I love college basketball, and a week of watching several exciting games has reminded me of my passion for the sport... |
Sports Central
February 21, 2011
Adam Russell |
College Hoops Surprises and Disappointments With only about three weeks remaining in the college basketball season, many fans and pundits are starting to look at the potential March Madness brackets. |
Sports Central
March 10, 2005
Vince Grzegorek |
Champaign Still Good 'TIl Last Drop About a month ago, some friends and I were sitting around discussing sports over some beers. The subject of the then undefeated Fighting Illini came up --- what are their chances? |
