All Entries in the "NCAA Basketball" Category
Butler’s miracle ran out, Duke Blue Devils National Champions
For nearly three weeks, Butler took over the NCAA Tournament with an uprising against college basketball bluebloods that captivated the country. Monday night, with the national championship at stake, Duke, the once and again king, put down the revolt. The Blue Devils took the smallest of leads early in the second half and held on [...]
The Butler story: crazy or a miracle? The Duke Blue Devils about to find out
I had never seen Butler play until they played against Kentucky and made the American heroes in John Wall and Demarcus Cousins look like high school kids and made the Kentucky coaching staff wonder how come they are losing a game to a team that is unable to make a field goal inside the three [...]
The Final Four ready to DANCE
The NCAA Final Four 2010 field has been set, but not without one of the games going down to the wire. Michigan State and Tennessee battled all the way down to the last 2 seconds when Michigan State’s Raymar Morgan made a free throw to give Michigan State a one-point win. This is their second [...]
John Wall, Evan Turner and DeMarcus Cousins lead All-America team
Having a couple of freshmen on The Associated Press’ All-America team is nothing new. This year, however, they are from the same school. Kentucky’s John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins were on the All-America team announced Monday. Joining them were Ohio State junior Evan Turner, who received all but one first-team vote, Syracuse junior Wes Johnson [...]
NCAA Tourney Day 4 – March Madness Report
One day after the favored Kansas Jayhawks bowed out, two more teams with a legitimate chance to cut down the nets left no question as to whether they belonged among the final 16 teams in the Big Dance. Syracuse, still without starting big man Arinze Onuaku, dismantled a well-balanced Gonzaga team. The ‘Cuse got a [...]
NCAA Tourney Day 3 – March Madness Report
Say it with me. Ali Farokhmanesh. The Northern Iowa senior guard’s name is pronounced “Fuh-ROAK-muh-nesh.” It’s not just an announcers’ nightmare. Now, it’s Kansas’ nightmare as well. Farokhmanesh became the latest tournament hero when he knocked down a 3-pointer with 29 seconds left on the shot clock, the Panthers leading Kansas by a point and [...]
Ali Farokhmanesh Shows Kansas the Door
This is the upset of the NCAA Tournament: Northern Iowa stuns Kansas. It’s something that has to be reviewed again in brief and via video to appreciate what happened in the NCAA Tournament. The key shot of the game heard round the NCAA Tournament was a cold dagger to the heart of Kansas applied by [...]
NCAA Tourney Day 2 – March Madness Report
After a thrilling first day with buzzer-beaters, overtimes and upsets, Friday basically went according to plan. Nearly all of the favorites advanced. Sure, there were scares: Michigan State needed a controversial call to get past New Mexico State and Wisconsin came down to the wire against Wofford. However, there was only one legitimate upset: No. [...]
NCAA Tourney Day 1 – March Madness Report
One year ago, it was a yawner. Just three of the 16 games wound up in single-digits and upsets didn’t exist. This time around the first day of the Big Dance brought about a trio of buzzer-beaters, three overtime contests and a couple more one-point games. But it wasn’t quite so enjoyable for the Big [...]
NCAA tournament 2010 Breakdown: the toughest and easiest regions and more
Toughest region: Midwest. This region does not seem balanced at all. Ohio State would have been a popular Final Four pick for lots of people. Instead, Evan Turner and Co. are stuck having to face Kansas in the Elite Eight. And Georgetown should have been a No. 2 seed. Instead, the Hoyas will have to [...]
Let the Dance Begin – Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse are your No 1′s
Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse have earned No. 1 seeds for the NCAA tournament. No. 1 Kansas, seeking its second national championship in three years, won the Big 12 tournament on Saturday by beating Kansas State and enters the tournament at 32-2. The Jayhawks are a No. 1 seed for the third time in four [...]
The Highest Paid College Basketball Coaches (A-List Edition)
By any normal business metric, the top-paid college basketball coaches in the NCAA are the most overpaid leaders in the U.S. Take Kentucky’s John Calipari, No. 1 on our pay list. He parlayed a run at the national title with the University of Memphis Tigers into an eight-year, $32 million deal. It’s good money, sure, [...]
Top 10 College Basketball Players (Big Men on Campus – A-List Edition)
It’s March Madness Time and here at the A-List we are more interested at who are the Big Men on Campus – the people playing the best basketball at this point of the college season. To rank these players we used a combination of individual stats, team’s performance and individual’s contributions to games outcome. While [...]
Memphis forward Garcia tears ACL
On Friday, Memphis got some good news about its future — and bad news about its immediate present. Memphis, already down to nine scholarship players, saw that number dwindle to eight when coach Josh Pastner announced sophomore forward Angel Garcia had torn the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and will miss the 2009-10 [...]
