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Sports Illustrated December 5, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Big 12 is best thus far The Big 12 is the best conference in the land for college basketball today...  |
Sports Illustrated December 6, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Taking on the Dukies So I pick Duke to go to the Final Four, and what do I get? Angry, angry e-mails from the Blue Devils faithful...  |
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 December 18, 2004 Cory Danner |
Who's Up to the Challenge? Looking over the remaining undefeated college basketball teams, of which there are 10 in the top 25, here are the three teams that have the best chance to run the table in the regular season and cut down the nets in April.  |
Sports Illustrated February 20, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Gonzaga's seed distort Where, oh where, do the Zags belong in the NCAA basketball tournament?  |
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.  |
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 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, 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 Illustrated December 13, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Sizing up the unbeatens It hasn't happened since 1976 and it may never happen again, which is why undefeated college basketball teams hold such a mystique for me. See, I want another team run the table, to do something historic...  |
Sports Central December 1, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
ACC Looking to Improve on Big Ten Over the next three nights, teams from two of the biggest and best conferences will come together for the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Here are some of the highlights.  |
Sports Illustrated March 11, 2001 Tim Crothers |
Chat Reel College hoops writer takes NCAA pairings questions...  |
Sports Central December 22, 2010 Ross Lancaster |
Atlantic Coast Calamity As of last week, the ACC had just one ranked team, normally an unthinkable phenomenon in most seasons approaching the holidays and conference play for everybody.  |
Sports Central March 17, 2011 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: NCAA Tourney Bric-A-Bracketology What happens in the dark room once the NCAA Selection Committee convenes?  |
Sports Illustrated November 13, 2002 Grant Wahl |
When is a forfeit not a loss? If Michigan 'vacates' games, record books don't change.  |
Sports Illustrated November 21, 2001 Grant Wahl |
What's going on in Maui? Let's wait until March before we call my preseason college basketball rankings a joke.  |
Sports Illustrated February 8, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Ending the Jacobsen/Dunleavy debate They're both great players and I'm a moron for driving a wedge where there was no need for one...  |
Sports Illustrated February 21, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Forecast has been clear Aside from overrating Arizona and underrating Iowa State, I think I've done all right this season...  |
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 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 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 Illustrated March 5, 2001 Tim Crothers |
Chat Reel Trying to predict the NCAA Tournament seedings...  |
Sports Central May 19, 2011 Kevin Beane |
Early-Season College Hoops Matchups It takes until pretty close to the season for all the Division 1 schools to say, "okay, here is our schedule" to where it can be reliably released to the media.  |
Sports Central March 21, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Coaching the Cause Behind Weak First Weekend I love the NCAA tournament. And that's what makes this that much harder to say: this year's tournament has sucked.  |
Sports Central March 24, 2010 Jonathan Lowe |
Back to the Future Some Sweet 16 thoughts on what's past and coming up.  |
Sports Central December 5, 2007 Ross Lancaster |
Who's Impressed So Far? In college basketball, Texas, Duke, and Butler have been extremely impressive and could be big players at the end of the season.  |
Sports Central March 17, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
Sports Central's Roundball Roundtable Sports writers compare notes and predictions about college basketball.  |
Sports Central March 15, 2010 Corrie Trouw |
Your Date For the Big Dance When you fill out your brackets, pick upsets with confidence. And, of course, pay attention to this analysis.  |
Sports Central March 29, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
Final Four: College Hoops Truly Gone Mad This year, we not only have the most unlikely Final Four in the modern tournament era (since 1980), but we have the annual coaching carousel spinning at frantic speed.  |
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 October 23, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Midterm Report There are three teams that, as expected, are very good if not great.  |
Sports Central March 18, 2008 Seth Doria |
2008 NCAA Tournament Preview Two days till the greatest weekend of the sporting year. Here are some thoughts on the bracket.  |
Sports Central March 19, 2015 Jeffrey Boswell |
March Madness: "Big Blue" Balls Can anyone stop Kentucky from completing an undefeated season with the national championship?  |
Sports Central December 30, 2011 Corrie Trouw |
The Healing Hoosiers College basketball suffers when historic programs plunge below their typical standards.  |
Sports Central March 14, 2007 Corrie Trouw |
Making Sense of the Madness Predictions for the NCAA basketball tournament.  |
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 5, 2005 Piet Van Leer |
10 Questions For College Hoops Season Who will win Conference USA?... Does anyone really believe in the Big 12 powers?... Will Duke win it all this year?... etc.  |
Sports Central November 12, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
Early Lessons in College Basketball When you're trying to evaluate college basketball teams, it's best not to draw too many conclusions based off just a game or two. Any team with a coach worth his salt will improve considerably between now and March.  |
Sports Central November 22, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
NCAA Men's Hoops About to Get Crazy Ask a diehard NBA fan what the true tragedy of the NBA lockout is, and they'll tell you it comes at the worst possible time.  |
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 29, 2005 Doug Graham |
Illinois Seeking an Undefeated Season? Well, it's that time of year where there are still a couple of unbeaten teams out there in the college basketball world. This year, there is Illinois and Boston College as the Top 25 undefeated.  |
Sports Illustrated January 24, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Let's give Stanford its due As a former (recovering?) East Coast basketball writer myself, I know there's a lot of ignorance about West Coast basketball. But some of the statements made about Stanford lately have been as unintentionally hilarious as Digger Phelps...  |
Sports Illustrated November 29, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Early-season hits and misses I try telling people there's no such thing as a Sports Illustrated jinx, and then it happens again. Beginning with the 1999 national title game, I've now been on hand six of the last seven times the AP's top-ranked team has gone down...  |
Sports Central March 24, 2009 Wailele Sallas |
Lessons Learned From March Madness Never underestimate the 'nobody believed in us' angle... Don't get caught up in the madness... The Big 10 is overrated!... The Big East is for real!... etc.  |
Sports Central March 25, 2008 Seth Doria |
NCAA Sweet 16 Power Poll Here's a look at the remaining Sweet 16, power poll-style.  |
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 Paul Bessire |
March Madness Champions In this article, WhatIfSports utilizes its free SimMatchup technology to rank the greatest March Madness Champions.  |
Sports Central April 1, 2004 Tony Arnoldine |
UConn Eyes Title One of the biggest sports spectacles in the world continues this Saturday when Duke plays Connecticut and Georgia Tech matches up with Oklahoma State.  |
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 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.  |