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Bubble Banter: UConn, Miss. St., Northwestern badly need wins
Mar 3, 2012, 9:25 AM EDT
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The NCAA tournament bubble isn’t necessarily any weaker, but it certainly isn’t shrinking. Games this weekend should help clear up a few spots – although it hasn’t happened yet. Right now, there are 25 teams listed as projected locks, with another seven teams in strong position to claim a bid (Should Be In). When you add in the…
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Jim Calhoun attends UConn practice, but may not coach Saturday
Mar 3, 2012, 2:27 AM EDT
UConn coach Jim Calhoun was back at practice Friday, but that doesn’t mean he’ll be coaching the Huskies when they play host to Pitt on Saturday. In fact, Calhoun was mostly there to alleviate some restlessness, not because he feels better after having surgery to alleviate nerve pain in his back. “I feel tired now,”…
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Don’t count Butler out just yet. With their NCAA hopes hanging by the thread of a Horizon League Tournament championship, Brad Stevens has the Bulldogs marching forward. Khyle Marshall and Roosevelt Jones each had 17 points and Butler dominated Milwaukee in the second half to get a 71-49 victory and advance to the semifinals of the…
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Two weeks ago, following a 56-50 road win over Penn, it looked like Harvard was solidly in control of the Ivy League. But then they flattened out. By going 3-2 in their next five while Penn won five straight, the Crimson allowed the Quakers to creep back into the conference title race. Now it comes…
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Basketball’s the same at every D-I school. Rims are 10 feet high, free-throws are from 15 feet away and the court’s 50 feet wide and 94 feet long. Only thing that changes is the ball. NCAA rules mandate a ball that weighs between 20 and 22 ounces, features a circumference between 29½ and 30 inches,…
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Southern Illinois fires Chris Lowery; may go for Bruce Weber
Mar 2, 2012, 5:11 PM EDT
Southern Illinois’ wretched start turned into a dismal season, which spelled the end of Chris Lowery’s tenure. Hard to believe given his start in Carbondale. Lowery was fired Friday, not long after the Salukis completed an 8-23 season, their worst in eight seasons under Lowery. It even included a loss to a D-II school. The…
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The Sun Belt’s regular season was never much of a race. That’s what happens when you have one dominant team rush to a 10-0 start in league play. That’s precisely what Middle Tennessee State did. After putting together an impressive non-conference slate — one that was strong enough to garner them serious consideration for an…
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Terrence Ross living up to declaration of Pac-12′s ‘best player’
Mar 2, 2012, 2:47 PM EDT
If Terrence Ross is the Pac-12 top player, Thursday didn’t hurt his cause. Washington’s sophomore scored 18 points in an 80-58 win Thursday against USC, a victory that clinched the Huskies at least a share of the league crown. If he ensures they win Saturday at UCLA, Ross could just take home the hardware. Ross,…
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Back in October, the MAAC looked like a two-team league. Iona and Fairfield were both stocked with talent, both homegrown and of the transfer variety, and had some pundits speculating that this could feasibly turn into a two-bid — if not three-bid, WCC-in-2008-style — conference by the end of the season. Alas, it didn’t happen.…
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Patsos never has to hear about the ‘Stephen Curry defense’ again
Mar 2, 2012, 1:29 PM EDT
Jimmy Patsos’s good year got even better Thursday when he was named MAAC coach of the year. And to think, it wasn’t that long ago that he was making headlines for some not-so-brilliant defense on Stephen Curry. The Loyola (Md.) coach took his team to a 21-8 season, the first time the Greyhounds have ever…
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The bid thief doesn’t linger very long. It gets in, gets out, and handles it’s business. The bid thief is one of the last things a desperate bubble team wants to see in early March. The longer a bubble team or potential at-large team can stay alive in a conference tournament, the better their chances…
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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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When Big East play got underway I was lucky enough to see, in-person, the then undefeated Syracuse Orange play consecutive games. The Orange ran over Providence on a Wednesday, then defeated Marquette three days later in the Carrier Dome. At the top of my pad of paper I carried with me, I kept a running…
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You want to see a list of every game that has bubble implications this weekend? Well, here’s a list of every game that has bubble implications this weekend. Click here to see our Weekend Preview of the top games. Sat. Pitt @ UConn, 12 p.m. (ESPN): Here’s my issue with the fact that UConn’s bubble…
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Game of the Weekend: Sat. No. 6 UNC @ No. 4 Duke, 7 p.m. (ESPN) It doesn’t get much better than this. Last day of the regular season. Duke and North Carolina. An ACC title on the line. A potential No. 1 seed in the balance. And the icing on the cake? The last time…
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I can see it now: Americans who treat March Madness like the Olympics scratching their heads and banging their remotes. “That Butler team has gotta be somewhere on my television dial.” /fumbles around the living room “Marge, do we get….um…truTV? I can’t find Butler. Where is Butler?” After serving as the National Championship runners-up for…
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Kentucky has been driven by their stellar underclassmen this season, but Senior Night in Lexington reminded us of one thing: Darius Miller is going to be just as important for the Wildcats as they pursue a national title. The senior guard Miller had 17 points, including 5-of-9 shooting from three-point range, pacing Kentucky in their…
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VCU, South Florida, Colorado St. sneak into our latest NCAA bracket
Mar 2, 2012, 8:58 AM EDT
Welcome to March. Three new teams have joined the bracket: Colorado State, South Florida, and VCU. Sliding out: Northwestern, Dayton, and St. Joseph’s. It’s going to be an interesting nine days until Selection Sunday. The race for No. 1 seeds continues with Goliath matchups this weekend. Michigan State hosts Ohio State and the Spartans can wrap…
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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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- Pat Forde believes that Ben Howland has lost his way. That’s all you get about UCLA today – It wouldn’t be Friday without Luke Winn’s Power Rankings – Just one of the many articles explaining why this Kentucky team is the most special of all the Calipari teams – The USC Trojans are not…
