Welcome to a Final Four of Blue Bloods versus Blue Collars
It’s loopy and strange and all kinds of backwards, but the best team left in the Final Four is UConn. Does America really want to watch cinderella on cinderella crime? Just how unlikely was this four-some? How did we get here?
SCOTT JACOBS
This isn’t the Final Four you predicted. It’s not the Final Four the bigwigs [...]
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NCAA Tourney ‘11: UConn does it. Again
From unranked to unbeatable, the Huskies have turned expectations upside down en route to a trip to the Final Four
SCOTT JACOBS
Four months ago, UConn was unranked, coming off a disappointing year, in which they missed the NCAA Tournament altogether, and then bowed out quietly in a forgettable N.I.T, and expectations were so low that Andy [...]
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NCAA Tourney ‘11: Arizona takes down the champs (emphatically)
10 years after losing to Duke in the National Championship Game, Arizona gets it’s revenge — in the Sweet 16
SCOTT JACOBS
The University of Arizona has been a mainstay in the NCAA Tournament. For 25 years in a row they were that one team you could count on without a doubt, that would be in the [...]
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NCAA Tourney ‘11: A Sweet 16 Tale of the Tape
We’re down to just 16 teams. Let’s learn a little bit about them and their tournament history, shall we?
SCOTT JACOBS
Hundreds of schools compete in NCAA Division 1A College hoops, and we are now down to just 16. Our final 16 aren’t just diverse in location, they’re also diverse in history, undergraduate students, and heck, while [...]
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NCAA Tourney ‘11: Reliving day 1 (The Second Round)
SCOTT JACOBS
Great first day of the NCAA Tournament (no, no, no, I’m not including the First Four). Buzzer beaters, clutch shots, and a pair of huge upsets, including Louisville going down! Rich-what? Richmond. A video look back at the best finishes of day 1. Here’s to many more in these next 3 weeks.
Morehead State shocks [...]
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NCAA Tourney ‘11: Let’s get Mad, baby!
Thursday afternoon is practically here, which means the greatest time in college hoops is just about upon us
SCOTT JACOBS
Are you ready? Cause it’s here! In all it’s capacious glory, the NCAA Tournament has arriveth. It looks a little different this year than from year’s past. Kind of has that new car smell. Yeah, a lot [...]
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NCAA Tourney ‘11: What if BCS ran college hoops?
The RPI is the closest thing college basketball has to the BCS, but what if college hoops had bowl games, instead of tourney games?
JIM RUBERA
(Rubera writes for The Spop)
Respected and powerful people much smarter than myself have pushed for a college football tournament in lieu of the BCS system. They have all failed. [...]
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NCAA Tourney ‘11: Welcome to National Gus Johnson Month
Let the love affair with Mr. Excitement begin again. The NCAA Tournament starts tonight and the most exciting announcer in sports is going to have plenty of shots to make some more memories
SCOTT JACOBS
If YouTube had an announcer it would be Gus Johnson.
“Clicks the video… and it’s playing! Ha Ha, from your living room, in [...]
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