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Connecticut continued its improbable tournament success – the Huskies have won the Maui Invitational, Big East tournament and four straight NCAA tourney games – by holding off Arizona in the West Regional final on Sunday. Here’s a rundown of the reaction. Yes, Kemba is the best player in the nation. Yes, Jeremy Lamb is a…
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Butler reached its second straight Final Four by beating Florida 74-71 in overtime on Saturday in the Southeast Regional final. Here’s a rundown of the reaction. Let it sink in: back-to-back Final Fours. That rarely happens even to college basketball’s royalty, the North Carolinas and Dukes and UCLAs. But Butler? Teeny-tiny, humble, unassuming Butler? As…
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Yes. Yes they did. /files story and closes lid on laptop. Kansas loss to Virginia Commonwealth, not to take anything away from the Rams, was the biggest choke job in this tournament, and it ranks up there among some of the biggest choke jobs in tournament history. Less than 24 hours after Butler downed Florida…
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Pick a storyline. Any storyline. Odds are this Final Four has it. There are underdogs, fab freshmen, bluebloods, fantastic coaches and superstars. But the odds are a good place to start. The long odds, that is. Who knew? Virginia Commonwealth won five straight games and pulled off the tournament’s biggest upset vs. Kansas Sunday. The…
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Buzzer-beaters, beatdowns — Big Dance’s second weekend had it all
Mar 28, 2011, 4:31 AM EDT
As much as I love the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, I think that the second weekend — the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 rounds — are actually my favorite part of the dance. The chaos, coast-to-coast madness, and desire to be able to watch and listed to all four games at once makes…
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Kentucky fans waited 13 years for a return to the Final Four. That thousands of them flocked to the Lexington, Ky., airport to greet is exactly what I’d expect. In fact, I’m a little surprised it was only 2,500 people. Then again, they were waiting for about three hours. They were one happy bunch, too.…
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Who ya got? When One Shining Moment starts up next Monday night, who will be the one cutting down the next in Houston? You also can follow me on Twitter @MikeMillerNBC.
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The season may have come to a disappointing end, losing to Kentucky 76-69 in the East Regional final, but this was not a disappointing year for North Carolina. In fact, if I had told you on January 17th — the day after North Carolina lost to Georgia Tech by 20 points — that the Tar…
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VCU and Kentucky weren’t the only ones making news on Sunday. Two schools hired new coaches – and a third might soon be on the way. The biggest move among them was Tennessee hiring Cuonzo Martin to replace Bruce Pearl. In three years at Missouri State, Martin, 36, was 61-41. The Bears had a breakthrough…
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The Kentucky Wildcats hoops team arguably carries more weight in college basketball than any other program in the country. Their fans are completely and utterly narcissistic (and that’s a compliment, I swear I’m not trolling!), their media will chase – literally chase – coaches out of town, and their players are treated like royalty in…
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This year’s Final Four may be the least-chalkiest according to seeds, but that doesn’t mean the four teams involved — UConn, Kentucky, Butler and VCU — have the worst combined records. That mark still belongs to 2000 when Michigan State, Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin made the final weekend. Per AP, the lowest overall winning…
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Schools, teams, coaches who’ve have NCAA tournament games vacated
Mar 27, 2011, 8:24 PM EDT
Schools, teams, coaches who’ve have NCAA tournament games vacated by the NCAA.
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And we all thought that Butler’s run was incredible. VCU has now done something that no other team has done before. The Rams, who took part in the first ever at-large play-in game just 16 short days ago, is now headed to the Final Four after capping off their astonishing run through the bracket with…
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Who needs words for a VCU’s amazing win when we have photos? Here, in pictures, is the immediate aftermath of the Rams’ victory over No. 1 Kansas. Rob Brandenberg and Joey Rodriguez as the buzzer sounds. Ed Nixon pops the jersey. Form left, Jeff Withey, Travis Releford, Elijah Johnson, Thomas Robinson and the Morris twins,…
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Conference Records in the NCAA tournament, compiled by the Associated Press. Conference (teams in) Wins Losses Pct. Horizon (1) 4 0 1.000 Colonial (3) 6 2 .750 Atlantic Coast (4) 8 4 .667 Southeastern (5) 7 4 .636 Mountain West (3) 4 3 .571 Pac-10 (4) 5 4 .556 Big East (11) 11 10 .523 Big…
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Butler could get used to this. Scratch that. The Bulldogs are used to it. “I think it’s about believing, and we want them to believe,” coach Brad Stevens said Sunday. “You know people say ‘This is unbelievable.’ But when you know these guys, it’s not unbelievable. It’s believable.” Who know who else is used to…
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Kansas has suffered two of the most surprising NCAA tournament losses in the last two years. A second-round defeat to Northern Iowa KO’d the Jayhawks when they were the top overall seed. This year, it was 10-point loss to 11 seed VCU, a game Kansas was favored to win by 10.5 points. So which game…
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From the Associated press – teams seeded ninth or lower that have advanced to the Final Four since 1979, when the NCAA began seeding all teams: 1979 – No. 9 Pennsylvania: lost to Michigan State in semifinals, lost to DePaul in third-place game 1986 – No. 11 LSU: lost to Louisville in semifinals 2006 –…
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I called them the most complete team remaining in the tournament no less than 48 hours ago, and I could not have been more incorrect. Relying far too heavily on The Brothers Morri, Kansas was downed by VCU 71-61 in a game that the Merriam-Webster Dictionary may or may not have an adjective to precisely…
