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Sports Central
February 26, 2014
Andrew Jones |
Sorting Out the One Seeds From the Twos As the college basketball season winds down, we're met with questions of bubble teams, road wins, strength of schedule, and my personal favorite debate this time of year: who deserves the number one seeds.   |
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 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 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
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
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 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
January 29, 2014
Andrew Jones |
Pre-March Madness Games Not to Miss Allow me to give you some regular season college basketball games you shouldn't miss if you want to make educated picks come March. |
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
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
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 7, 2012
Paul Foeller |
Early Bracket-Busters Every year after Selection Sunday, the second-guessing of the Selection Committee's decisions begins for fans everywhere. It's so much fun, I just couldn't wait any longer, and compiled a list of teams that will be ranked too high or too low in a couple weeks |
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
November 15, 2006
Seth Doria |
NCAA Tournament Sleeper Watch The seeds for tournament runs are always planted in the fall. Pay attention now, and you just might have something to brag about come March. |
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 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
December 4, 2010
Paul Foeller |
Cinderella in 2010: December Edition This year may be young, but some teams are starting to show their true colors already. Who can shock the nation-wide audience like Northern Iowa and Cornell did last year? |
Sports Central
March 17, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
Sports Central's Roundball Roundtable Sports writers compare notes and predictions about college basketball. |
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 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
February 29, 2012
Jean Neuberger |
Mid-Major Rankings: Pre-Conference Tourney Edition March Madness has the feel of another round of upsets. |
Sports Central
February 8, 2011
Joshua Duffy |
Calling Cinderella: Who Will Crash This Year's Tournament? Everybody loves an upset. Here are three to keep an eye on during this year's NCAA tournament. |
Sports Central
February 5, 2008
Seth Doria |
39 Days to Selection Sunday This week in basketball saw one team step above the rest, others move up or down the ladder of momentum, and some individual performances that make your jaw drop. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Andrew Segal |
March Madness Preview: Breaking Down The Bracket Two missed free throws with no time left on the clock cost the Memphis Tigers a spot. The Buffalo Bulls were denied their invitation courtesy of a last-second game-winning shot in overtime by Ohio University. |
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
February 12, 2008
Seth Doria |
32 Days to Selection Sunday In lieu of a verbal highlight reel of the past week, a look at the general landscape of college hoops with barely more than a month until the madness |
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
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
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
March 20, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
NCAA Tournament Weekend Wrap-Up A few observations from the NCAA tournament this past weekend. |
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
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
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
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
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Brandon Lang |
March Madness: Weekly Picks Kent State vs. UNLV... West Virginia vs. Arizona... San Diego vs. UConn... Davidson vs. Gonzaga... |
Sports Central
February 15, 2012
Paul Foeller |
Shock(er) Value Around this time every year, I write an article about sleeper teams that could surprise some people come March Madness. |
Sports Central
November 26, 2007
Seth Doria |
2007 College Basketball Preview A look at players, coaches, conferences and playoff predictions for college basketball teams. |
Sports Central
March 16, 2004
Piet Van Leer |
The Committee Gets an A This is the best job the NCAA Selection Committee has done in years. |
Sports Central
March 20, 2006
Eric Poole |
Closing the Gap The NCAA underdogs did a lot more than scare the favorites. The longshots came in. But the upset storm will probably end this weekend. |
Sports Central
February 22, 2007
Ricky Dimon |
Mid-Majors Vie For Chance to Bust Brackets Sorting out the chaos that was the 2007 BracketBuster weekend. |
Sports Central
March 19, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
The Best Way to Go Dancing If a conference isn't truly sending one of its best teams, the chance of madness goes down. And unless you're that obsessive about making your bracket the "perfect" one, no one should want less of March in for this week. |
Sports Central
January 5, 2011
Ryan Day |
In Defense of San Diego State Basketball San Diego State will score a couple of upsets and progress further than its university ever has in the postseason. |
Sports Central
March 4, 2008
Seth Doria |
NCAA Championship Week Preview Everything you need to know for "13 of the greatest days of the year." |
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
August 14, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
Answering the Major/Mid-Major Question Deciding what conferences belong in the mid-major and major categories. |
Sports Central
January 30, 2007
Seth Doria |
Madness in the Making: Part I A look at teams from the Pac-10, SEC, Colonial, and Missouri Valley conferences. |
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. |
