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Anthony Davis wins 2012 AP College Basketball POY — Will he be a NBA Hall of Famer?
SCOTT JACOBS
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?
SCOTT JACOBS
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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Day 4 – The Sweet 16 is set; A visual breakdown
SCOTT JACOBS
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
SCOTT JACOBS
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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Day 2: And then there was 32 – breaking down the madness
Wrapping up a wild day 2 of the NCAA Tournament and where we stand going into the field of 32
SCOTT JACOBS
Shockers! I’m sure someone will do the research on this, but I can’t recall another tournament in recent memory boasting 9 double digit seeds surviving the second (**cough cough**) first round:
A breakdown by seed (note: [...]
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Fixing the Big East: Why Catholic Schools could be the answer
Instead of focusing on football, the Big East should reinvent itself by recruiting the best Catholic basketball schools in the land
SHANE SMITH
My last article discussed the very real reality of losing the Big East as a whole, but really the only thing anyone would really miss out on would be the amazingly competitive basketball of [...]
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March Madness: More women bet than men?
The NCAA Tournament is less than a week away and research confirms it: it’s the most unproductive time of the working year!
SCOTT JACOBS
March madness is upon us. With the conference tournaments in full swing and Selection Sunday just a few days away, it’s time to decertify from NFL Lockout talk for just a moment and [...]
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