Perfect! Baylor, Griner beat Notre Dame to win 2012 national title, claim first 40-0 season
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For the first time in college basketball history a team (men or women’s) has achieved 40-0. Baylor’s Lady Bears did it tonight behind the unstoppable Brittney Griner, winning their 2nd national title since 2005.
Baylor, becomes just the 7th team in Women’s NCAA Tournament history (the tourney began in 1982) to [...]
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One Shining Moment! Kentucky beats Kansas to win 2012 NCAA Title
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College basketball’s championship trophy is headed back to the Bluegrass State. For the first time in 14 years, it’s Big Blue that can lay claim to being the final team standing in the Big Dance, as the Wildcats completed a 38 win season with an impressive win over a wily Kansas [...]
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2012 NCAA Tournament in Review with CBS Sports Analyst/SI columnist Seth Davis: the best game, the best team, and Anthony Davis
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SI.com columnist and CBS Sports analyst Seth Davis joins us to break down the best and worst of the 2012 NCAA Tournament from the Final Four in New Orleans, the influx of 1 and dones and whether it’s good for the game, John Calipari’s success, the NBA Draft age limit, and [...]
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Anthony Davis wins 2012 AP College Basketball POY — Will he be a NBA Hall of Famer?
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Anthony Davis has had a special season for a special freshman, and today he added another accolade to an impressive first year campaign, Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year.
He is just the second freshman ever (Kevin Durant) to win the prestigious award which has been given out since [...]
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Final Four Set: Kentucky, Kansas, Ohio State, or Louisville, Who wins it all?
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It takes 67 games to complete the NCAA Tournament. We now have just 3 left. The field has been whittled down from 68 to 4, and as we zero in on New Orleans, site of the 2012 Final Four, a quadrant of programs steep in tradition remain: 1. Kentucky, 2. Kansas, [...]
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Austin Rivers, another 1 and done: Are Freshman defections killing quality of play in college hoops?
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Austin Rivers is off to the NBA according to sources close to the shooting guard, freshman sensation from Duke. Zero people should be shocked by this announcement. The top high school recruit in the country was pretty much a lock to bolt for the NBA if he had even a decent [...]
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Day 4 – The Sweet 16 is set; A visual breakdown
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52 games down, 15 to go. It’s been a wild NCAA Tournament, but the Curse of Gus lingers — there has yet to be an overtime or buzzer beater (which is quite simply astounding). Still, with just 16 teams left — including 4 from Ohio (a record), 4 from the Big 10, and 4 [...]
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Day 3 – Nothing to get upset over, everybody goes chalk
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What a strange, double-personality this 2012 NCAA Tournament has taken on. On odd days it’s status quo, business as usual for the top seeds with a hiccup here and there, and on even days, it’s pure, unadulterated chaos!
We watched two 2 seeds and a 4 seed fall on Friday, and on Saturday the expectation [...]
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