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What a game. What a season. The 2012-2013 college basketball season is officially in the books and we were sent off into the sunset with arguably the best game of the season. Last night’s National Championship game between Louisville and Michigan was better than anything we could have asked for. Let’s hit the links. Read…
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Highlight-reel dunks from Harrell and Hardaway Jr. shook Atlanta
Apr 9, 2013, 12:45 AM EDT
What. A. Game. What we witnessed on Monday night in the Georgia Dome may go down as one of the best, most entertaining National Championship games in the 75 year history of the NCAA Tournament. Louisville’s 82-76 victory over Michigan was not only the best game of the NCAA tournament, but also the best game…
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The CBT Podcast is here to finish off the 2012-2013 NCAA college basketball season in style. Raphielle Johnson joins Troy Machir (Me) to discuss a busy week of news and notes from the college basketball world. The release of the video tapes documenting Mike Rice’s disturbing practice behavior and his subsequent firing from Rutgers is…
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Mike Rice was fired at Rutgers. Richard Pitino is the new head coach at Minnesota. The best high school players in the country played very little defense last night at the McDonald’s All-American game in Chicago. That and more in today’s T.M.M. let’s hit the links. Read of the Day: Kevin Ware has become a…
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The N.I.T. Finals are set as Baylor and Iowa won their semifinals and advanced to the championship game. In other news, Rutgers head coach Mike Rice is on the brink of being fired, thanks to the public release of video footage revealing the coach’s appalling behavior towards his team at practice. Also, I should point…
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Monday was a busy news day. Kevin Ware began his recovery, West Virginia lost a trio of players, NC-State lost two, Tubby didn’t stay fired for long, and the maestro of #DunKCity is moving to SoCal. let’s hit the links. Read of the Day: This is the best story on Kevin Ware yet. His team…
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VIDEO: Seth Davis, Dan Patrick discuss coverage of Kevin Ware’s injury
Apr 1, 2013, 12:05 PM EDT
Deciding how to handle a traumatic event on live television is one of the most difficult and sensitive decisions in all of broadcast production. There is no handbook on how to handle the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event on live television. On Sunday, CBS did a masterful job navigating the through the aftermath of…
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Marquette had enough talent to win in March, but not enough to play to April
Mar 30, 2013, 9:10 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marquette has seen the Syracuse 2-3 zone before. They’ve seen it a lot, both in-person and on film. In fact, they’ve beaten the zone this year, a 74-71 win back on February 25th. But the teams that survive and advance late into March are usually equipped with a handful future NBA players,…
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We are in the heart of March Madness. We’ve had two tremendous weekends of exciting basketball that feature great games, outstanding plays and entertaining finishes. As the Madness continues to unfold throughout the country, we’ll be monitoring the great moments, spectacular plays and exciting finishes. – Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 -…
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We are in the heart of March Madness. We’ve had two tremendous weekends of exciting basketball that feature great games, outstanding plays and entertaining finishes. As the Madness continues to unfold throughout the country, we’ll be monitoring the great moments, spectacular plays and exciting finishes. – Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 -…
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Four spots in the Elite Eight were handed out last night. Ohio State won on yet another game-winning 3-pointer. Wichita State looked like a legitimate Final Four team against La Salle. Marquette made Miami look like, well, Miami and Syracuse roughed up Indiana worse than any team had done this season. Four more games are…
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The first weekend of March Madness has come and gone. It was a tremendous weekend of exciting basketball that feature great games, outstanding plays and entertaining finishes. As the Madness unfolds throughout the country, we’ll be monitoring the great moments, spectacular plays and exciting finishes. – Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 -…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Syracuse was not supposed to be in the Elite Eight. Not with No. 1-seed Indiana, not on a court in which they were blown out by 22 points less than a month ago. But thanks to a career-high 24 points from Michael Carter-Williams, the Syracuse Orange advanced to the Elite Eight with…
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Hurricanes go ice cold, miss 41 shots in Sweet 16 loss to Marquette
Mar 28, 2013, 10:40 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Never has MIA been a more fitting nickname for Miami. The Miami Hurricanes entered Thursday night’s NCAA tournament East regional semifinal with Marquette as one of the nation’s top field-goal shooting teams and were ranked in the top-50 in effective field-goal percentage. But after 20 minutes of play, the No. 2-seed Hurricanes…
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It’s game day folks. We’ve been sitting and waiting all week for some real basketball (Sorry N.I.T.) and it’s finally here. But before the games tip-off we got some pressing news and notes we need to discuss. Let’s hit the links. Read of the Day: More questionable NCAA behavior has been unearth regarding…
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Good news everyone. We’re only 36 hours away from another installment of meaningful postseason basketball. There’s some half-decent N.I.T. games tonight if you’re really scratching at the itch tonight. Let’s hit the links. Read of the Day: Here’s an interesting stat: Arizona’s Kaleb Tarczewski is the only top-10 recruit in this season’s freshman…
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We haven’t had a day like this in some time. No games yesterday, no games today, no games tomorrow. From now until Thursday (Unless something absolutely bonkers happens in the N.I.T) it’s going to be nothing but chatter: News, opinion, insight, analysis, etc. It’s going to be “Media Day” from now til Thursday. Oh, and…
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2013 NCAA Tournament in Pictures: Best of the First Weekend
Mar 25, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT
The first weekend of March Madness has come and gone. It was a tremendous weekend of exciting basketball that feature great games, outstanding plays and entertaining finishes. As the Madness unfolds throughout the country, we’ll be monitoring the great moments, spectacular plays and exciting finishes. – Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 -…
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What a weekend. The first weekend is finally in the books, and it’s pretty clear that the craziness we saw during the regular season carried over into March Madness. We were introduced to Dunk City, Florida (Coined by yours truely. Yes I was the first to use it, no I did not receive any credit…
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Is Florida Gulf Coast the most surprising Cinderella of all time?
Mar 25, 2013, 7:00 AM EDT
Every tournament needs a Cinderella. It’s one of the great recurring subplots that March Madness supplies and it usually helps shape the tournament’s identity. No. 15-seed Florida Gulf Coast is in the midst of what could be the greatest Cinderella story in NCAA tournament history. The University was founded just 16 years ago in 1997. The men’s…
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As the Madness unfolds throughout the country, we’ll be monitoring the great moments, spectacular plays and exciting finishes. – Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 Here are the best pictures from Sunday’s third round games. You can contact Troy Machir on Twitter at @TroyMachir
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The final day of the first weekend is here. As the Madness unfolds throughout the country, we’ll be monitoring the great moments, spectacular plays and exciting finishes. – Day 1 – Day 2 Before the final day of third round games gets underway, take a look back at the best pictures from Saturday. You can…
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The third of March Madness is here. As the Madness unfolds throughout the country, we’ll be monitoring the great moments, spectacular plays and exciting finishes. – Day 1 Day 2: Pt. 1, Pt. 2 Before the third round gets underway, take a look back at the best pictures from Friday. You can contact Troy Machir…
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The second day of March Madness is here. As the Madness unfolds throughout the country, we’ll be monitoring the great moments, spectacular plays and exciting finishes. – Day 1 Day 2: Pt. 1, Pt. 2 Here are some of the best pictures from day two of the 2013 NCAA Tournament. You can contact Troy Machir…
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The second day of March Madness is here. As the Madness unfolds throughout the country, we’ll be monitoring the great moments, spectacular plays and exciting finishes. – Day 1 – Day 2, Pt. 1 Here are some of the best pictures from day two of the 2013 NCAA Tournament. You can contact Troy Machir on…
