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Its official: Temple will be joining the Big East. That’s coming from Brett McMurphy, and if Brett McMurphy is saying it, than you can pretty much believe it. The way it stands right now, Temple’s football program will be added in 2012 while their basketball program won’t leave the Atlantic 10 until 2013. Normally, you…
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Over the next 13 days, the brackets will start to take shape. Teams with no at-large aspirations will make one final push at the post-season. Teams on the bubble will look to assert themselves as worthy members of “The Big Dance”, and contenders will start priming their engines for a national Championship run. While “March…
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Recruiting rundown: Is Kansas on verge of blockbuster class?
Mar 7, 2012, 10:57 AM EDT
The news that 6-3 shooting guard Allerik Freeman of Olympic (N.C.), a nationally top-25 ranked player in the junior class, has narrowed his college list to two remaining selections came out last week, and the clubhouse favorite to land his college services, Kansas, could be on the verge of a dynamite 2013 recruiting class. Freeman’s…
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I wouldn’t blame you if you couldn’t name a single team — let alone a single player — in the SWAC. Buried at the bottom of the map and the bottom of just about every ranking formula, teams in this league are known more for the ridiculous road trip they take in November and December,…
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We all thought this was finally going to be the year. With the amount of talent that Kansas lost off of their roster from last season and with the majority of their recruiting class finding themselves ineligible to play this season, the Jayhawks were left with the inconsistent Tyshawn Taylor, the unproven Thomas Robinson and…
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Maybe you saw one during the Day 1 of the Big East tournament. If you watch today, you’ll almost certainly see a couple. ‘Cause they’re there. The guys who freak you out. OK, so that’s having a bit of fun. But fun is exactly what Zach Hillesland did with this Quad story from yesterday, detailing…
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Read through the rest of the NCAA Tournament Cheat Sheets here. Conference: Ivy Coach: Tommy Amaker Record: 26-4, 12-2 (1st) Rankings and Ratings: – Kenpom: 38 – RPI: 36 – AP/Coaches: Unranked Seeding?: It will be interesting to see where Harvard gets seeded. They had a solid RPI, a top 25 win and a 5-3 record…
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Over the next 13 days, the brackets will start to take shape. Teams with no at-large aspirations will make one final push at the post-season. Teams on the bubble will look to assert themselves as worthy members of “The Big Dance”, and contenders will start priming their engines for a national Championship run. While “March…
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- Photo of the Night – Luke Winn provides a fantastic-read on the friendship between Creighton stars Doug McDermott and Grant Gibbs. Gibbs was recruited by McDermott’s father Greg, when he was head coach at Iowa State. Gibbs decided to attend Gonzaga instead of ISU, but when he was in search of a fresh start,…
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Prior to the season starting, the was plenty of speculation about the strength of Conference USA. More specifically, there was talk that, if things broke the right way, this could end up being a four bid league. Central Florida was returning a lot of talent and bringing in a number of transfers. Marshall was going…
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The one problem with March? Somebody’s gotta lose those dramatic games that go down as great drama. And the other end of feel-good stories? Ones that hurt. When Western Kentucky capped a remarkable turnaround – it started the season 5-14, fired its coach, replaced him with a popular guy who eventually had the interim tag…
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It’s not uncommon for South Dakota State to score 52 points in a half. But even a rough offensive night wasn’t enough to keep the Jackrabbits from claiming its first bid to the NCAA tournament. A 52-50 overtime victory against Western Illinois in the Summit League championship marked the Jackrabbits’ lowest point total of the…
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This is what Ray McCallum Jr. envisioned when he committed to Detroit. What son wouldn’t want to lead his dad’s team to the NCAA tournament? Well, he did just that. The former McDonald’s All-American was the driving force behind Detroit’s 70-50 win against Valparaiso Tuesday night in the Horizon League tournament final, giving the school…
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Winners Seton Hall: The Pirates picked up an impressive 79-47 win over Providence in the first round of the Big East tournament on Tuesday night. Beating Providence isn’t exactly a marquee victory for the Pirates, but given what had just happened — losing to 28 by DePaul on the last day of the regular season…
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Princeton jumped out to a 21-6 lead on Penn on Tuesday night in New Jersey in the final game of the Ivy League’s regular season. The Quakers fought back, cutting the lead to three at one point in the second half, but Princeton was able to pull away down the stretch, winning 62-52. Ian Hummer…
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Every Cinderella team in March needs a good luck charm. Good thing Western Kentucky’s is its coach. The Hilltoppers reeled off four straight wins in the Sun Belt tournament and clinched an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament by rallying past North Texas in Tuesday’s final, 74-70. That makes coach Ray Harper 6-0 since taking…
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Connecticut won its Big East tournament opener on Tuesday. Seton Hall is handling Providence. But how do those would-be NCAA tournament teams feel about their chances for an at-large bid? Bobby Gonzalez and Tom Brennan discuss that very idea on SportsTalk. For what it’s worth, it seems that Brennan is overstating it a bit with…
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Drexel’s Bruiser Flint: ‘I won 19 in a row. What do you want me do to?’
Mar 6, 2012, 7:36 PM EDT
Bruiser Flint has already started his media campaign to try and convince the public and at-large — and, I guess, the Selection Committee — that his Drexel Dragons deserve a spot in the NCAA Tournament. “We won 27 games. We lost in the championship. We won the regular season. I think our resume, our stuff,…
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Duke won’t have versatile, sharpshooting forward Ryan Kelly for the ACC tournament, the school announced Tuesday. He suffered a foot sprain during practice. It will be re-evaluated Monday. Kelly, a 6-11 junior, has started 19 games and is the Blue Devils’ third-leading scorer (11.8 ppg) and rebounder (5.4), not to mention one of their top…
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NEW YORK– As Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun sat at the podium with players Ryan Boatright and Jeremy Lamb, following his team’s 81-67 win over DePaul in the first round of the Big East Tournament, questioning began about Calhoun’s recent health concerns. “Thank God it’s no longer a nerve pain and I’m not walking with a…
