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Baylor may be the least popular team in the country tomorrow afternoon. And contrary to what Baylor fans will believe, that fact has nothing to do with their head coach wouldn’t win many popularity contests or that their team spent the majority of the season folding when they were faced with an elite opponent. It…
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Indiana played pretty close to a perfect game on December 10th. That was the day that the Hoosiers, then undefeated but unranked, knocked off Kentucky in one of the season’s best games with one of the year’s most memorable shots. Indiana shot 9-15 from three that day. They won the battle of the back boards,…
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Sweet 16 Previews: Baylor’s zone vs. Xavier’s ball-screens
Mar 22, 2012, 3:41 PM EDT
Ed Isaacson of NBADraftBlog.com contributed to this post. Back in November, if I were to have told you that there would be a Sweet 16 matchup between Baylor and Xavier, you wouldn’t have been surprised. Both team were in the top 15 nationally, both teams had rosters stocked with talent surrounding a potential all-american. But were considered favorites…
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All anyone can talk about regarding North Carolina is the status of Kendall Marshall, quite obviously. The sophomore point guard fractured a bone in his wrist in Saturday’s round of 32 win over Creighton, and while he had surgery on Monday morning, it is unclear whether or not he will actually be sitting out or…
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Sweet 16 Previews: Anthony Davis, Cody Zeller and foul trouble
Mar 22, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
Friday’s rematch of December’s classic between No. 1 seed Kentucky and No. 4 seed Indiana is about a lot more than just a single personnel matchup. Marquis Teague is a different player than he was back in December. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is as well, although that isn’t necessarily a good thing. Indiana will be without Verdell…
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On Sunday night, Purdue very nearly pulled off an incredible upset of No. 2 seed Kansas, eventually succumbing to the Jayhawks as Tyshawn Taylor and Elijah Johnson turned three turnovers into fast break baskets in the final 70 seconds. Up until that point, however, Kansas had only held one lead in the entire game, when…
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Sweet 16 Previews: Michigan State’s essential pick-and-roll defense
Mar 21, 2012, 2:25 PM EDT
Ed Isaacson of NBADraftBlog.com contributed to this post. Louisville’s bread and butter offensively in the high-ball screen, as they use it on 12.4% of their possessions offensively, 27th most in Division I. Peyton Siva alone uses 41.7% of his possessions in the pick-and-roll, which in the second-highest total in the country behind Xavier Thames of…
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Ed Isaacson of NBADraftBlog.com contributed to this post. Jae Crowder is Marquette’s most important player, and based on the fact that he won Big East Player of the Year of Kevin Jones, the West Virginia power forward that led the conference in scoring and rebounding, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that he…
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Sweet 16 Previews: Why Yancy Gates needs to play like Josh Harrellson
Mar 21, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
Ed Isaacson of NBADraftBlog.com contributed to this post. I don’t know if I’m the first to say this, but I believe it with all of my heart: No. 6 Cincinnati is going to have a very, very good chance of beating No. 2 Ohio State in the Sweet 16 on Thursday night in Boston for…
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Sweet 16 Previews: Will Fab Melo’s absence matter vs. Wisconsin?
Mar 21, 2012, 10:59 AM EDT
Ed Isaacson of NBADraftBlog.com contributed to this post. Just eight short days ago, the course of the season for the Syracuse Orange completely changed. For the second time in the span of two months, Fab Melo, the Big East’s Defensive Player of the Year and the rock that had anchored the Syracuse zone, was ruled…
