Best in Bark: from Unranked to Unbeatable, UConn wins it all
In arguably the ugliest championship game ever played, UConn overcame a pesky, cold shooting Butler team to give embattled Head Coach Jim Calhoun possibly his last One Shining Moment, and Kemba and Friends the championship few could have forseen back in November
SCOTT JACOBS
The hats may read NO 1 if you look at them quickly, but [...]
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You ready for the Final Four? VCU’s fans are!
We’re down to four. UConn, Kentucky, VCU, and Butler left to vie for a national championship. Here’s a VCU song and my picks
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Someone emailed this to me yesterday. It’s a song written and produced by VCU students Torin Ortiga and DJ Fili embracing their school’s Shaka-ing run to the Final Four. Will it end [...]
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Forget VCU, everyone should apologize to the selection committee
From scrutinized to on their way to Houston, the VCU Rams have been quite a story. But we don’t owe them an apology
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Alright, so let’s get this out of the way. Nobody, not even the most die-hard VCU fan, could have seriously considered the Rams as a Final Four team. It is one of [...]
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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)
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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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