NCAA Tournament rumors, news

NCAA Tournament news, rumors

  • • Revisiting Cinderella: Coach Tobin Anderson looks back on FDU's upset over No. 1 Purdue in 2023
    NCAA.com's Andy Katz and former FDU Coach Tobin Anderson look back on No. 16 FDU's upset over No. 1 Purdue, only the second win by a 16 seed in NCAA tournament history....2025
  • • Revisiting Cinderella: JP Pegues reflects back on his game winner to upset Virginia in 2023
    JP Pegues looks back on his game winning shot in Furman's upset over Virginia in the first round of the 2023 NCAA tournament....2025
  • • Revisiting Cinderella: Joe Sherburne looks back on UMBC's upset over Virginia in 2018
    NCAA.com's Andy Katz and UMBC's Joe Sherburne look back on UMBC being the first ever #16 seed to defeat a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament....2025
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  • • Revisiting Cinderella: Bryce Drew breaks down ‘The Shot’
    NCAA.com's Andy Katz and Bryce Drew break down "The Shot" from Valparaiso's win over Ole Miss in the 1998 NCAA tournament....2025
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  • • Revisiting Cinderella: Ali Farokhmanesh looks back on UNI's upset over No. 1 Kansas in 2010
    NCAA.com's Andy Katz and Northern Iowa alumnus Ali Farokhmanesh look back on No. 9 UNI's upset over No. 1 Kansas in the 2010 NCAA tournament....2025
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  • • 2025 March Madness men's bracket predictions: Andy Katz's first projections of the year
    NCAA.com's Andy Katz's shares his March Madness bracket predictions with the NCAA tournament just a few months away....2025
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NCAA Tournament injury and suspension

  • Rutgers women’s basketball freshman star Kiyomi McMiller’s benching situation, explained
    • Rutgers women’s basketball freshman star Kiyomi McMiller’s benching situation, explained
    Photo by Tony Quinn/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A top freshmen in the country is having a tumultuous start to the 2025 calendar year, and took it to the public Rutgers women’s basketball star freshman guard Kiyomi McMiller entered the New Jersey program ranked as the No. 27 prospect in the nation. Since debuting for the Scarlet Knights, Miller has played more like a No. 1 overall recr...2025
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  • Indiana Hoosiers won transfer portal, and more talent could be coming
    • Indiana Hoosiers won transfer portal, and more talent could be coming
    Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images Indiana men’s basketball is clear winner of transfer portal already, and the Hoosiers aren’t done yet. The Indiana Hoosiers were among the most disappointing men’s basketball teams in the country this past season. After making the NCAA tournament in each of head coach Mike Woodson’s first two seasons leading the program, the wheels fell off during the 2023-20...2024
  • In Iowa-UConn Final Four game we are left wondering what could have happened
    • In Iowa-UConn Final Four game we are left wondering what could have happened
    Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports In what was considered the “Paige vs. Caitlin” game going in ended with questions about officiating CLEVELAND — Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder was walking through the tunnels of Rocket Mortgage Field House with a smile on her face. With Caitlin Clark and Hannah Stuelke walking ahead of her, the team was on their way to the media press conference as the winners of Fr...2024
  • Paige Bueckers is reminding the world of her greatness in 2024 women’s NCAA tournament
    • Paige Bueckers is reminding the world of her greatness in 2024 women’s NCAA tournament
    Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images UConn is rolling. Now Caitlin Clark awaits in the Final Four. Paige Bueckers finds herself in the same position as everyone else in the 2024 women’s NCAA tournament: Playing second fiddle to Caitlin Clark. While Clark is getting all the press, leading reports on ESPN, and being credited with revolutionizing women’s basketball, Bueckers is writing anothe...2024
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  • Kim Mulkey’s awful game plan vs. Caitlin Clark is the reason LSU’s season is over
    • Kim Mulkey’s awful game plan vs. Caitlin Clark is the reason LSU’s season is over
    Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Caitlin Clark kept torching LSU, and Kim Mulkey refused to adjust. Kim Mulkey’s twisted worldview is easy to criticize. Her coaching acumen is not. The 61-year-old has built one of the greatest head coaching resumes in college basketball history since accepting the Baylor job in 2000: she has four national championships, five Final Four appearances, three ...2024
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  • NC State’s miracle March is proof the NCAA tournament is perfect as is
    • NC State’s miracle March is proof the NCAA tournament is perfect as is
    Photo by Andy Hancock/NCAA Photos/NCAA Photos via Getty Images The Wolfpack aren’t making the argument you think they’re making. Watching the euphoria play out inside the NC State locker room Friday night, it was easy to forget that there was a time when the majority of Wolfpack fans were ready to run head coach Kevin Keatts out of town. That there was a time when NC State was life and d...2024
  • Sweet 16 teams, ranked by their national title chances in men’s March Madness
    • Sweet 16 teams, ranked by their national title chances in men’s March Madness
    Photo by Joe Murphy/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Let’s rank the Sweet 16 field in 2024 men’s NCAA tournament by their national championship chances. The first weekend of the 2024 men’s NCAA tournament had it all. There were upsets (bye, Kentucky), there were new stars born (hello, D.J. Burns and Jack Gohlke), and there were exciting finishes. After four days, the tournament is now left wit...2024
  • The Best and Worst from Day 1 of March Madness
    • The Best and Worst from Day 1 of March Madness
    Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images Oakland shocked the world, 11-seeds cleaned up, someone dropped 40 and someone else notched a triple-double. Let’s talk about all of that and more. Four double-digit seed winners, a true Cinderella, a 40-point scorer, a triple-double, and a handful of high-level games coming down to the final minute. Not bad for the first day. Let’s dive right into all of...2024
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  • March Madness men’s bracket makes no sense thanks to selection committee
    • March Madness men’s bracket makes no sense thanks to selection committee
    Photo by David Berding/Getty Images No one can make sense of a bizarre 2024 men’s NCAA tournament bracket. The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournament has always been the best event on the American sports calendar to these eyes. The NBA provides the greatest basketball in the world, sure, but nothing can beat the charm of a single-elimination format with players who have worked their ...2024
  • South Carolina-LSU women’s brawl leads to ejections, fan arrest, NCAA tournament suspensions
    • South Carolina-LSU women’s brawl leads to ejections, fan arrest, NCAA tournament suspensions
    A chaotic scene broke out at the end of the South Carolina vs. LSU women’s SEC championship game, and suspensions are coming for both teams in March Madness. A benches-clearing brawl broke out in the 2024 SEC women’s championship game between No. 1 South Carolina and No. 2 LSU that led to multiple ejections and looming suspensions for the women’s NCAA tournament. The incident started late in the ...2024

NCAA Tournament lifestyle

  • Purdue’s basketball exorcism took them all over the world. There’s only one stop left
    • Purdue’s basketball exorcism took them all over the world. There’s only one stop left
    Photo by Brett Wilhelm/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Purdue had to travel the globe to bury their past forever GLENDALE, AZ. — The Purdue Boilermakers needed a vacation after suffering one of the most devastating losses in college basketball history. Fortunately, they already had a couple big ones planned. The Boilermakers boarded a plane to Munich, Germany in early Aug. to shed their skin ...2024
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Timeline

  • 2025
    "2025 March Madness men's bracket predictions: Andy Katz's first projections of the year"

  • 2024
    "Indiana State’s ridiculously fun NIT run is a reminder of how dumb the selection committee was"

  • 2023
    "Caitlin Clark is the biggest superstar of March, and it’s not even close"

  • 2022
    "All of the emotion and excitement of the 2022 NCAA Tournament set to the tune of "One Shining Moment."

  • 2021
    "Every year, there always seems to be a player who bolsters his NBA draft stock over the course of the NCAA Tournament."

  • 2020
    "Jack Allard: COVID-19 'Took Me to My Knees,' Grateful for Lacrosse Family"

  • 2019
    "How the Big East has put college basketball on alert"

  • 2018
    "Here's why Purdue is a legit contender to win the NCAA Tournament title"

  • 2017
    "NCAA Tournament 2017: Darius Rucker cries after South Carolina advances to Final Four"

  • 2016
    "Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame 2016: List of Inductees for This Year's Class"

  • 2015
    "Larry Brown Says He Could Fix 76ers in 5 Minutes, Campaigns for Allen Iverson"

  • 2014
    "We can vividly remember the now 38-year-old Andre Miller stuffing the stat lines at Utah and a junior season that almost saw the do-everything point guard and his Ute teammates upset Kentucky in the title game after knocking off UNC in the semifinals of the 1998 NCAA Tournament."

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NCAA Tournament trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • Tiger Woods’ TGL explained; everything you need to know
    • Tiger Woods’ TGL explained; everything you need to know
    Tiger Woods at the SoFi Center during a TGL rehearsal. | TGL TGL begins on Tuesday night on ESPN. Here’s everything you need to know about golf’s newest venture. The launch of golf’s newest league is finally here. Originally scheduled to debut in 2024, TGL postponed its starting date to Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Why? Well, the SoFi Center, the arena slated to host the league’s competition...2025
  • Bracket at Tour Championship? Here’s perfect solution for PGA Tour finale at East Lake
    • Bracket at Tour Championship? Here’s perfect solution for PGA Tour finale at East Lake
    Scottie Scheffler signs pin flags after winning the 2024 Tour Championship. | Photo by Ben Jared/PGA Tour via Getty Images A report from The Athletic indicated that the Tour Championship will likely implement another format change, so we offered a solution. Even though the 2025 PGA Tour season has only just begun in Maui, the attention of the golf world immediately turned to the Tour Champ...2025
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  • • NC State’s miracle March is proof the NCAA tournament is perfect as is
    2024
  • • Sweet 16 teams, ranked by their national title chances in men’s March Madness
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  • • The Best and Worst from Day 1 of March Madness
    2024
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  • John Calipari is never living down Kentucky’s loss to Oakland in March Madness
    • John Calipari is never living down Kentucky’s loss to Oakland in March Madness
    Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images Kentucky’s loss to Oakland is worst game of John Calipari era The Kentucky Wildcats lived on the edge all season. John Calipari’s team was electric offensively, but seemed to believe defense was optional since the start of the year. Unlike most of Calipari’s best teams, these Wildcats lacked a dominant big man and often got beat up on the boards. When thei...2024
  • Caitlin Clark broke an unbreakable record, and Nike knew exactly how to respond
    • Caitlin Clark broke an unbreakable record, and Nike knew exactly how to respond
    Nike’s new Caitlin Clark ad celebrating scoring record is perfect in every way Caitlin Clark entered Iowa’s game against the Ohio State Buckeyes on Sunday afternoon on the brink of breaking one of the most unbreakable records in all of sports: Pete Maravich’s career scoring mark in DI college basketball. Clark had broken Kelsey Plum’s women’s scoring record a couple weeks back, and needed only 18 ...2024
  • • Metzbower Brings Offensive Brainpower, Recruiting Prowess to Denver
    THE JOB POST CALLED FOR ENTRY-LEVEL APPLICANTS with a bachelor’s degree and not much more. To say David Metzbower was overqualified would be an understatement. Sitting in the cab of his GMC pickup truck not long after North Carolina let him go in early June, the 59-year-old architect of seven NCAA championship-winning offenses took his shot anyway. Metzbower had heard that new Denver men’s lacross...2023
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  • • Aaron Gordon needed the Nuggets as much as they needed him
    Aaron Gordon’s evolution as a player happened right on time for the Nuggets. The rosters at the 2013 McDonald’s All-American Game were headlined by four combo forwards lined up at the top of the class recruiting rankings. Each player had a unique blend of skills they put on display during practice scrimmages at Attack Athletics on the West Side of Chicago. Andrew Wiggins was the Canadian mystery m...2023
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  • • The 2024 NBA Draft’s top-2 prospects are spurning college basketball for the G League
    The two best NBA Draft prospects in the 2024 class picked the G League over offers from college basketball bluebloods. The NBA started the G League Ignite program in 2020 as an alternative pathway to the league for top prospects who didn’t want to go to college or spend their pre-draft year playing professionally overseas. The Ignite have produced some top NBA prospects in every year of their exis...2023
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NCAA Tournament stats and results

  • Dylan Harper Viewed By NBA Teams As Consensus Top-2 Pick In 2025 NBA Draft
    • Dylan Harper Viewed By NBA Teams As Consensus Top-2 Pick In 2025 NBA Draft
    Dylan Harper has had a strong start to his freshman season at Rutgers and "has established himself among front offices as a consensus top-two pick at this stage," reports Jeremy Woo of ESPN. Harper is even a candidate to be selected at No. 1 even though Cooper Flagg remains the favorite. Harper is averaging 21.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists. Harper is shooting 36 percent on almost five thr...2025
  • Donovan Mitchell Following Win Over Thunder: 'We Don't Win This Game Last Year'
    • Donovan Mitchell Following Win Over Thunder: 'We Don't Win This Game Last Year'
    The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 129-122 on Wednesday night, winning their 11th straight game. The Cavs are now 32-4 on the season. "It just speaks to our growth. I told everybody after the game, as a unit, we don't win this game last year ... everybody that came in did something positive to affect the game, whether it was scoring, rebounding, defending, whatever it may be. T...2025
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  • • Rutgers women’s basketball freshman star Kiyomi McMiller’s benching situation, explained
    2025
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  • • Tiger Woods’ TGL explained; everything you need to know
    2025
  • • Bracket at Tour Championship? Here’s perfect solution for PGA Tour finale at East Lake
    2025
  • • Indiana Hoosiers won transfer portal, and more talent could be coming
    2024
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  • • Purdue’s basketball exorcism took them all over the world. There’s only one stop left
    2024
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  • Shaheen Holloway encouraged Robbie Avila after Seton Hall’s NIT title in heartwarming moment
    • Shaheen Holloway encouraged Robbie Avila after Seton Hall’s NIT title in heartwarming moment
    Shaheen Holloway’s encouragement of Robbie Avila was the best moment of the NIT championship game. The Seton Hall Pirates staged a furious comeback in the final minutes against Indiana State on Thursday night to win the 2024 men’s NIT championship. When the final buzzer sounded, Seton Hall head coach Shaheen Holloway consoled Sycamores sophomore star Robbie Avila in a gesture that warmed the heart...2024
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  • Seton Hall wins NIT championship thriller as Indiana State goes cold down stretch
    • Seton Hall wins NIT championship thriller as Indiana State goes cold down stretch
    Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images Seton Hall is NIT champs in the men’s bracket after a furious late-game rally to close out Indiana State. Indiana State guard Isaiah Swope sized his man, retreated his dribble backwards near the halfcourt line, then charged forward to confidently step into a deep three-pointer. The shot swished through the net, the Sycamores held a seven-point lead over...2024
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  • • Paige Bueckers is reminding the world of her greatness in 2024 women’s NCAA tournament
    2024
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NCAA Tournament parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

  • • Rutgers women’s basketball freshman star Kiyomi McMiller’s benching situation, explained
    2025
  • • Indiana Hoosiers won transfer portal, and more talent could be coming
    2024
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  • • Purdue’s basketball exorcism took them all over the world. There’s only one stop left
    2024
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  • • In Iowa-UConn Final Four game we are left wondering what could have happened
    2024
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  • • Shaheen Holloway encouraged Robbie Avila after Seton Hall’s NIT title in heartwarming moment
    2024
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  • • Paige Bueckers is reminding the world of her greatness in 2024 women’s NCAA tournament
    2024
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  • • NC State’s miracle March is proof the NCAA tournament is perfect as is
    2024
  • Indiana State’s ridiculously fun NIT run is a reminder of how dumb the selection committee was
    • Indiana State’s ridiculously fun NIT run is a reminder of how dumb the selection committee was
    Grace Hollars/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK Indiana State rock and they should have been dancing. Indiana State was one of the feel-good stories of college basketball this year. The school’s success in 2023-24 evoked the halcyon days of Larry Bird, and reversed decades of mediocrity for one incredible run. In the end a 29-6 record wasn’t good enough for the selection committee, who snubbed ...2024
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  • • Sweet 16 teams, ranked by their national title chances in men’s March Madness
    2024
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  • • The Best and Worst from Day 1 of March Madness
    2024
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Top NCAA Tournament news

  • • Larry Brown Says He Could Fix 76ers in 5 Minutes, Campaigns for Allen Iverson
    2015
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  • • LeBron, Kobe and Melo Congratulate Mike Krzyzewski on 5th Duke Championship
    2015
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  • • Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame 2016: List of Inductees for This Year's Class
    2016
  • • Stephen Curry's Jersey Won't be Retired by Davidson Until He Graduates
    2015
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  • • The Basketball Tournament Offers $1 Million with Former NBA Players on 97 Teams
    2015
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  • • 49-Year-Old Reggie Miller Knocks Down Jumpers at Site of 2015 NCAA Tournament
    2015
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  • • Aaron Rodgers Gets Called Out During NCAA Tournament by Writer, Rodgers Responds
    2015
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  • • 5-Star Recruit Jon Isaac to Try Declaring for 2016 NBA Draft Out of High School
    2016
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NCAA Tournament fantasy rankings and news

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NCAA Tournament schedule, game

  • • Rutgers women’s basketball freshman star Kiyomi McMiller’s benching situation, explained
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  • • Tiger Woods’ TGL explained; everything you need to know
    2025
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  • • Bracket at Tour Championship? Here’s perfect solution for PGA Tour finale at East Lake
    2025
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  • • Indiana Hoosiers won transfer portal, and more talent could be coming
    2024
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  • • Purdue’s basketball exorcism took them all over the world. There’s only one stop left
    2024
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  • • Shaheen Holloway encouraged Robbie Avila after Seton Hall’s NIT title in heartwarming moment
    2024
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  • • Seton Hall wins NIT championship thriller as Indiana State goes cold down stretch
    2024
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  • • Paige Bueckers is reminding the world of her greatness in 2024 women’s NCAA tournament
    2024
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  • • NC State’s miracle March is proof the NCAA tournament is perfect as is
    2024
  • • Indiana State’s ridiculously fun NIT run is a reminder of how dumb the selection committee was
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NCAA Tournament rumors, scandals

  • • Donovan Mitchell Following Win Over Thunder: 'We Don't Win This Game Last Year'
    2025
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  • • In Iowa-UConn Final Four game we are left wondering what could have happened
    2024
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  • • Shaheen Holloway encouraged Robbie Avila after Seton Hall’s NIT title in heartwarming moment
    2024
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  • Yale’s band couldn’t travel for March Madness, so Idaho’s band answered the call
    • Yale’s band couldn’t travel for March Madness, so Idaho’s band answered the call
    NCAA Photos via Getty Images When Yale’s band couldn’t accompany their team to the NCAA Tournament, the University of Idaho band stepped in — and played the Bulldogs to their biggest win in school history. To state the obvious: The NCAA Tournament is a massive operation. 67 games in 14 cities, hundreds of student athletes, and hundreds of thousands of fans all zig-zagging across the nation...2024
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  • • Sweet 16 teams, ranked by their national title chances in men’s March Madness
    2024
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  • • The Best and Worst from Day 1 of March Madness
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  • Samford robbed by refs on clean block vs. Kansas for worst call of March Madness
    • Samford robbed by refs on clean block vs. Kansas for worst call of March Madness
    Samford got screwed out of an amazing March Madness moment by the refs. The No. 4 seed Kansas Jayhawks led No. 13 seed Samford by 22 points in the second half of their first round matchup in the 2024 men’s NCAA tournament. That’s when the Bulldogs started an inspired run to chip away at the lead and produce what should have been a March Madness classic. The champions out of the Southern Conference...2024
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  • Virginia embarrassed itself and selection committee with terrible 2024 March Madness performance
    • Virginia embarrassed itself and selection committee with terrible 2024 March Madness performance
    Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Virginia’s garbage performance was way too easy to predict in the 2024 men’s NCAA tournament. Virginia basketball’s inclusion in the 2024 men’s NCAA tournament was always highly questionable. The Cavaliers were the No. 69 team in the country on Selection Sunday, according to KenPom, but made the bracket over teams with stronger analytical projections. UVA’...2024
  • UConn’s road losing streak to ranked teams is men’s college basketball’s weirdest skid
    • UConn’s road losing streak to ranked teams is men’s college basketball’s weirdest skid
    Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images UConn men’s basketball can do anything but beat a good team on the road. Men’s college basketball hasn’t seen a program win back-to-back national championships since Joakim Noah, Al Horford, and the Florida Gators accomplished the task in 2006-2007. While several teams have come close over the ensuing years, it feels like these UConn Huskies might have t...2024
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  • • Pipe Dreams: How a Notre Dame Tradition Bonds Brian Tevlin with His Late Brother
    THE BLACKWOOD PIPES PROTRUDE FROM A VELVET POUCH, held in alignment by green silk cords with tassels as Brian Tevlin hoists the bass drone over his left shoulder and puffs into the blow stick. The air leaves his lungs and inflates the bag to reveal a Celtic cross sewn into the fabric. An A-sharp minor tonic fills the concrete aperture of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The bagpipes that once b...2023
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