March Madness
NCAA Tournament-related posts, stories.
Finding this year’s Stephen Curry is easy.
The player capable of single-handedly carrying his team deep into the NCAA tournament and wowing onlookers also happens to be the favorite for player of the year and the slam-dunk pick for No. 1 in this year’s NBA draft. Yeah, that's Blake Griffin.
But he's not the only one who could have a huge Sweet 16.
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It’s déjà vu all over again.
Last year featured a Sweet 16 filled with powerhouse teams who piled up wins like never before. All four 1 seeds, three 2 seeds and three 3 seeds were in the 2007 Sweet 16.
But this year’s ridiculous Sweet 16 – all four 1, 2 and 3 seeds advanced, along with two 4s and a 5 – created the predictable “The sky is falling in Cinderellas’s head!” responses.
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What happened, ACC?
You used to rule the 64-team NCAA tournament. Your six titles since the tourney expanded in 1985 is more than any other league. You placed at least one school in the Final Four 17 times between 1985 and 2005. You sent at least two teams to the Sweet 16 for 15 straight years.
The last four tournaments have been a different story.
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Western Kentucky provided Thursday’s only real upset in the NCAA tournament, but the Hilltoppers were far from the only storyline.
With Memphis’ early drama, Jim Calhoun’s absence and American’s Garrison Carr trying to do a Stephen Curry impersonation, there wasn’t a reason to turn off the TV, or the online streaming.
Here’s a rundown of the Big Dance’s opening day, and a snippet at what’s to come Friday.
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Nobody’s perfect.
Keep that in mind when checking your NCAA tournament brackets the next few week. When you shake your head over missing that upset “you knew would happen” don’t fret. When that 12 seed makes a run to the Sweet 16, just keep this in mind.
The odds of picking a perfect bracket are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 1.
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President Obama isn’t much different from me, and a good number of other hoops fans – at least when it comes to filling out his NCAA tournament bracket.
He picks a few upsets, but relies on the top seeds when it comes to choosing a Final Four. And his champ? Also no stunner.
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So, you’ve spent the past two days pouring over every bit of info related to the NCAA tournament. You’ve scoured the Web sites, the blogs, the newspapers (or not), listened to the radio, watch the TV and talked with friends about your bracket.
And now, here you are, still agonizing over which 5 seed will lose first, if North Carolina can win with an ailing Ty Lawson, and just which mid-major is the most likely to make a run.
It’s a bear, right? Here’s some help.
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Another year, another Selection Sunday. Now the real fun begins.
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After four days of upsets and bubble busting, Sunday may be the most dramatic NCAA tournament prelude in years. Who’s in? Who’s out? Who are the 1s? How will it all shake out when the brackets are announced at 6 p.m. ET?
This one would stump Nostradamus.
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Thursday wasn’t kind to would-be No. 1 seeds. Pitt lost to West Virginia. Oklahoma State upended Oklahoma. And Syracuse outlasted UConn – in near-record fashion five overtimes.
The upsets created a flurry of discussion about each team’s likelihood about grabbing a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament and, if the Panthers, Sooners and Huskies were no longer worthy of a top spot, which teams should take their place.
The reason everyone focuses on those No. 1 teams is because those are the teams most likely to win it all.
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