Posts Tagged ‘March Madness’

With top seed Pitt clinging to a 26-23 halftime lead, we can officially ask whether the ETSU Buccaneers can become the first 16th seed to win a first round game.
It’s clear that in slashing wing Kevin Tiggs, quick guards Mike Smith and Isiah Brown, the Buccs have the quickness and athleticism to hang with the [...]

A spirited effort by North Dakota State wasn’t enough, as Kansas held off the Bison 84-74. At several times in the second half, the Summit League champs had chances to make shots that would have gotten them on even terms with the Jayhawks, but they just couldn’t knock them down.
While NDSU’s senior [...]

With twelve games in the 2009 Big Dance having been played so far, I’ve got to say that we’ve yet to see any buzzer beaters nor the sort of upsets that put the madness in March.

Cal-State Northridge gave Memphis a game and American played Villanova tough, but we’ve yet to any see any [...]

I’ve been using this killer site called Meet Now Live for a while now. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to make it to one of their legendary Free Beer Fridays because I play soccer on Friday nights and it’s tough to keep goal when loaded, but there’s always interesting shit going down over there.
While [...]

Kind of the typical bracket that one has come to expect from this tiny plot of cyberspace. Lots o’upsets and a couple of Final Four darkhorses that will either make me look like a college hoops idiot savant or like a complete dumb ass. Usually, it’s the latter and not the former that [...]

The guys in this video will pull off a first round stunner:
Thanks to the tournament selection committee seeming to forget that DI college hoops is played by conferences other than the Big East and Big Ten, this doesn’t, at first glance, seem to be a tourney that will be rife with what I consider upsets: [...]

(Aka: The pick SIena and Utah State edition)
Every year we do post on how you can try to apply a bit of “science” to what really is an art: divining which unknown squads from mid and low-majordom will bust brackets by knocking off some overhyped, overconfident power conference team on Thursday and Friday. [...]

Yahoo’s summary of the field of 65 is titledTournament a Big East feast and I think that summarizes it as much as anything.
I don’t have too much to say. I knew that the non-BCS leagues were gonna get screwed big-time this Big Dance, and, well, they did in what has become an [...]

Cleveland State, the Notes From A Basketball Junkie pick to win the Horizon.

The Vikings, a team I barely knew when the season began, but came to know and love the way a dog owner might come love to a mutt that looks downright ugly to everyone else, emerged bloodied, but unbowed, beating Butler on the [...]

Gonzaga’s doing a demo job on St. Mary’s, as they’re up 68-45 on the Gaels with a bit more than seven minutes left to play in Vegas. The Gaels have shot so poorly, I doubt that could throw the rock into a casino. It’s too bad since this was a game that lots [...]

alternated between wild and brilliant for the first 26 (or so) minutes, but I can guarantee one thing: no BCS league team wants any part of Siena or Niagara come next Thursday and Friday.
Siena’s up 46-43 right now and this game looks destined for a frenetic and memorable finish.

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Tomorrow night at 9:00PM EST. St. Mary’s vs Gonzaga for all the marbles in the West Coast Conference. If you haven’t gotten your March Madness on yet, then I highly recommend you get it on Monday night.
Gonzaga demolished Santa Clara 94-59 tonight while St. Mary’s put Portland away with a game-ending [...]

Morehead State frosh forward Steve Peterson, who averages less than 2 PPG and had yet to score in the game, stepped off the bench with seconds left to play in the second overtime of the OVC title game. All he did was calmly take a pass from Eagles’ point guard Brandon Shingles on the [...]

Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried just threw down an alley oop slam off a beautiful dime from Brandon Shingles to put the Eagles up 57-55 with 6.7 seconds left to play. Faried climbed — and I mean climbed! — to grab the lob and throw it down.
I don’t like to pick favorites, but [...]

Coming down to the wire in Nashville, as Morehead State has battled back from several deficits all game to tie Austin Peay at 55 with about a buck and a half left to play. In rugged and cerebral sophomore forward Kenneth Faried, Donnie Tyndall has a superstar in the making. How the fuck [...]

There was about as much reason to think Colgate could beat Navy in the first round of the Patriot League tourney as there was to think that buskers (among others ) without verifiable income buy $500K houses without any cash down and keep on paying the mortgages on said houses. While the latter came [...]

How sweet it is!
After running through way too much of our college hoops betting bankroll thanks to a slew of ill-advised picks back in December and January, we took some time off from Pick of the Day. The time off served us well, as we were able to refine our top secret methodology — [...]

It’s opening night for conference tourneys across Mid-Majordom, with the Big South, Ohio Valley, and the Horizon League all starting tonight. Since this means that March Madness is officially under the way, we’ve decided that it’s time to dust off the mothballed Pick of the Day feature and try to win back what we’ve [...]

Blue II and Butler could play host to the Horizon League tourney
List of leagues — The Colonial Athletic Association, The Valley, Big Sky, and the MAC all spring to mind — were the conference tourney is going to be an absolute bloodbath. Most people know about 23rd-ranked Butler and some folk know about Cleveland [...]

Saturday’s emphatic win over Miami has catapulted the Bulls into Joe Lunardi’s current Big Dance bracket.
Lunardi has Buffalo as 13-seed and headed west to Portland for an eminently winnable first round match-up with Arizona State. There’s a lot of hoop to be played before March Madness, but, to see a team picked [...]

Start with Caleb Peiffer’s preview at Basketball Prospectus — this is the first time teams that finished one and two in the Pomeroy Ratings met in the final — before motoring on over to Beyond The Arc, where Mike Miller sees some ‘Melo in Memphis’s frosh point guard Derrick Rose and finish it up by [...]

There’s not a whole lot for members of the Mid-Major nation to get excited about it in tonight’s NCAA Championship game between Memphis and Kansas, the latter side being a true college hoops blueblood while the Tigers are an occasional Final Four interloper. Sure, the 38-1 Tigers may play in Conference USA, which is a Mid-Major league if I’ve ever seen one, but they are in no way, shape, or form a Mid-Major squad. Memphis is a power conference team that plays in a conference without any power. All that being said, any game is better when you can take sides and cheer for one team so we’re stuck with our yearly question of who to cheer for in the NCAA Championship game.

Start with Basketball prospectus and then move on to Mike Miller’s spin at Beyond The Arc before checking out the outstanding post at CAA: Life as a Mid-Major, which makes a forceful argument for chucking the current way — RPI and all — of picking teams for the Big Dance. Something that I’m all [...]

Gotta love those kooky, nerdy Davidson supporters:

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can’t remember ever seeing a shooter as sweet as Curry at the college level. With his quick release and tireless ability to keep moving on offense, there seems to be nothing a team can do to defend him once he gets going. He wasn’t getting open looks on Sunday and Friday. He had a hand or two or four or six in his face every time he shot. Didn’t matter. Curry was money.

Maybe watching Reggie Miller during his senior year at UCLA or watching Calvin Murphy shoot the lights out for Niagara in the late 1960s is the closest it comes to watching Curry work his magic. I only sort of remember watching Reggie during his career at UCLA since I was 14 when he graduated and I wasn’t but a vision in the smoke from one of my parents bong hits when Murphy was playing college ball. So, as far as I know, watching Stephen Curry shoot the rock is as good as it gets in college hoops.