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Player of the Year: Jamaal Franklin, San Diego State There is a lot of talent in the Mountain West, but what Franklin did this season simply cannot be overlooked. He averaged 17.1 ppg and 8.0 rpg on the year, but those numbers bumped up to 19.5 ppg and 9.9 rpg in league play. A 6’5″…
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The last two NCAA tournament featured a fair number of early round upsets, not to mention Butler making the Final Four (and VCU last season). Compared to 2008 when all four No. 1 seeds made the Final Four, that’s mass chaos. But it’s not nearly as fun to type. I’d prefer a visual representation, you…
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I’m not sure you would actually believe me if I told you how bad Savannah State was just a short six seasons ago. They went 2-28. One of those two wins came against something called Wilberforce. They lost to Oregon 83-23. They lost to Pacific 82-37. Yale beat them by 29. Texas A&M-Corpus Christ beat…
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Read through the rest of the NCAA Tournament Cheat Sheets here. Conference: Southern Coach: Bob McKillop Record: 25-7, 16-2 (1st) Rankings and Ratings: – Kenpom: 66 – RPI: 66 – AP/Coaches: Unranked Seeding?: Davidson is probably looking at somewhere around a 13 or 14 seed. They are definitely one of the strong mid-major automatic bids —…
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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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Read through the rest of the NCAA Tournament Cheat Sheets here. Conference: WCC Coach: Randy Bennett Record: 27-5, 14-2 (1st) Rankings and Ratings: – Kenpom: 43 – RPI: 30 – AP/Coaches: Unranked/18th Seeding?: Prior to their win over Gonzaga in the WCC title game on Monday night, most people had St. Mary’s slotted as a seven…
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Player of the Year: Jorge Gutierrez, Cal The last time a player in the Pac-12 (then the Pac-10) won Player of the Year without leading his team in scoring was Mike Bibby, and we all know what he went on to be. Gutierrez is a different player than Bibby, but his contributions go well beyond…
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Read through the rest of the NCAA Tournament Cheat Sheets here. Conference: CAA Coach: Shaka Smart Record: 28-6, 15-3 (2nd) Rankings and Ratings: – Kenpom: 46 – RPI: 41 – AP/USA Today: Unranked Seeding?: It will be interesting to see where VCU gets placed in the bracket. They don’t have an overwhelming profile — they probably…
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North Carolina entered the season as the team to beat. Seems the Tar Heels are trying to end the season that way as well. Saturday’s win at Duke not only moved UNC up to No. 4 in the AP poll and a 1 seed in our latest NCAA tournament bracket projection, it also moved them…
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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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- According to Pat Forde and Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports, the Syracuse basketball program repeatedly violated internal drug policy. It seemed like a big issue at the time, but is it really that big of a deal? But finally, somebody (and that somebody is Dana O’Neil) tackles the ”so what if it’s a big deal” angle – Jason…
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Early in the year, the Atlantic 10 was all Xavier. With a lofty preseason ranking, an all-american anchoring a back court that could match up with anyone in the country and a pair of come-from-behind wins over Purdue and at Vanderbilt, it really shouldn’t be any wonder that the Musketeers were the talk of the…
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For the last time ever, we will be watching the Big East Tournament as we know it. Next season, West Virginia will be gone, headed to the Big 12. Pitt and Syracuse won’t be far behind them, replaced by powerhouse programs like SMU, Houston and UCF. Saying the league will be diluted is akin to…
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It’s conference tournament week. So expect every Photo of the Day from now until Selection Sunday to involve some sort of championship game result. Just sayin’. It’s that time of year. Take Monday. Four teams earned automatic bids to the NCAA tournament by either outplaying or simply outlasting their opponent. The latter probably best fits…
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Player of the Year: Kendall Marshall, North Carolina Marshall didn’t put up the numbers that the rest of his teammates did. He didn’t score as much as a number of other point guards in the conference. But there is no one in the league — maybe in the country — that was as vital to…
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Several mid-major bubble teams will have long waits until Selection Sunday. These include Iona, Drexel, Oral Roberts, and Middle Tennessee State. All lost in their conference tournaments. We now have 28 projected locks and another six teams that should feel confident. That leaves 29 teams on the bubble for roughly 12 spots. It’s going to…
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Steph Curry not around, but Davidson’s back in NCAA tourney
Mar 6, 2012, 12:26 AM EDT
Good thing Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors played at 4 ET on Monday. That meant Davidson’s most famous recent player could watch (and bite his fingernails) as the Wildcats clinched a return to the NCAA tournament in the Monday’s most dramatic game. A 93-91 double-overtime win against Western Carolina gave Davidson the Southern Conference tournament…
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St. Mary’s pulled off the double dethrone of Gonzaga this season. But it needed every bit of the regular-season to win the WCC title. Then it needed overtime time to claim the tournament crown. But it was enough. The Gaels’ 78-74 win against No. 24 Gonzaga will go down as one of the week’s thrilling…
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Oral Roberts became the latest top seed in a conference tournament to fall short of the title game. A day after Iona and Middle Tennessee State suffered stunning losses, the Golden Eagles lost 54-53 to Western Illinois in the Summit League semifinals Monday night. Perhaps most surprising is how Oral Roberts lost.Today’s shocker? Oral Roberts…
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After the Redhawks lost to Toledo in the first round of the MAC Tournament, head coach Charlie Coles announced that he will be retiring as the head coach of Miami (OH). Coles had been at Miami for 16 years, with 14 of them as the head coach as he took over for Herb Sendek, after…
