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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 13, 2013
Jean Neuberger |
The Rise of the New Big East While realignment killed some rivalries and made dramatic changes to the geographic map, seven Catholic schools got it right. Instead of creating new leagues and identities, they went back to their roots. They'll be better off for it, as will college basketball. |
Sports Central
January 9, 2006
Jonathan Lowe |
The Inauguration of a Superconference? The Big East conference is large enough to always see success in the NCAA tournament. |
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
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
January 1, 2013
Jonathan Lowe |
The Immaculate Collection It's been poked and prodded over for the couple of weeks. The pre-Christmas announcement for the seven Catholic (and non-football) universities to leave the Big East conference is still in its formative stages. But the decision's real, and the move's coming. |
Sports Illustrated
May 21, 2003
Kelley King |
Hurricane Watch Two conferences are wooing Miami Athletic Director Paul Dee, whose decision -- to keep Miami in the Big East or bolt for the Atlantic Coast Conference -- could shake up the college sports landscape. |
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
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. |
Sports Central
January 15, 2014
Jonathan Lowe |
American Bad Rap-sody UConn basketball is left on an snowy island. They are trying to forage a new identity as the perceived bell ringer for the newly-formed American Athletic Conference. In doing so, it appears that they've taken a major hit in terms of marketability through no fault of their own. |
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
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
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
December 17, 2012
Andrew Jones |
Enough Already It is time to put an end to all of the distractions that college sports provide. And that needs to happen by telling teams what conference they are in. |
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
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
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 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
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... |
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 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
March 8, 2012
Adam Russell |
Confusing Geographical Lines When I was a kid, I excelled at U.S. geography, partially because I knew my college football conferences like the back of my hand. And they all made sense. |
Sports Central
March 8, 2010
Jonathan Lowe |
I Wish I Was a Little Bit Smaller Once every year, the basketball world known as the Big Eight used to converge on my hometown to decide their automatic bid for the NCAA tournament. |
Sports Central
August 14, 2013
Andrew Jones |
An Anti-Conference Approach The past few years have seen a plague of movement in college football conferences to the point where the names don't even make any sense anymore. |
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
November 20, 2007
Jean Neuberger |
Hidden Valley You have to love the parody in college basketball. |
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
January 16, 2006
William Geoghegan |
Memphis Finds the Best of Both Worlds The Memphis Tigers might be wondering why they ever wanted to be in the Big East. |
Sports Central
April 27, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
Why 68 is Great College basketball fans should be pleased and even optimistic that a 68-team tournament can produce fantastic tournaments. |
Sports Illustrated
March 5, 2002
Seth Davis |
March Badness Conference tournaments work for mid-major leagues, but they encourage top teams to tank... |
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
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 Central
May 23, 2012
Jean Neuberger |
The Newest Game Changer It was just an announcement of a bowl game. Yet, in this never-ending maze of realignment in college athletics, it was a day that could possibly live in football infamy. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
BracketBuzzkillers BracketBusters represents a diversion in the college basketball season that is unnecessary to the teams involved and claims objectives that are increasingly either irrelevant or downright false. |
Sports Central
March 22, 2013
Kevin Beane |
The Other Tournaments of March The main one of these, of course, is the NIT, but two more have recently arrived on the slate to ensure that virtually every Division I basketball team with a winning record will playing somewhere with hardware on the line. Let's take a look at each. |
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
March 28, 2011
Adam Russell |
March Madness? How About March Insanity? Who would have thought that this year's Final Four would be comprised of an eight-seed, an 11-seed (both being mid-majors), and a couple traditional powers not seeded No. 1? |
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
March 4, 2013
Jonathan Lowe |
No Matter What? The author discusses the ups and downs of a single season for college football and basketball teams. |
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
December 24, 2005
Andre Watson |
ACC Season Beginning to Heat Up The Atlantic Coast Conference has long been one of the best conferences in college basketball. And this year is no exception. |
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. |
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 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... |
