Results matching “conference preview”
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UPSET ALERT Sat. 3:00 pm: No. 10 Syracuse @ Marquette: It’s too early to say Marquette is desperate. They have wins over Notre Dame and West Virginia in their back pocket. Their “bad loss” is to Gonzaga. They even have a better-than-you-think non-conference win over Bucknell. They may have dropped eight games this season, but…
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Bubble Banter will officially launch on Tuesday, February 1. In preparation and ahead of our newest bracket projection on Monday (Jan. 24), here is an overview of how Bubble Banter is shaping up. ATLANTIC 10 – With Temple falling behind the pace of early leaders Duquesne and Xavier, there are no secure spots in the…
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UPSET ALERT Sat. 12:30 pm: No. 17 Wisconsin @ Northwestern: There may not be a team in the country that needs a win on Saturday as badly as the Wildcats need this win. This was supposed to be the year for Northwestern. Most of the experts expected the Wildcats to compete for a tournament bid,…
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Friday’s Pregame Beat: Previewing your college hoops weekend
Jan 14, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT
UPSET ALERT Sat. 6:00 pm: No. 6 SDSU @ New Mexico: With Duke’s loss to Florida State on Wednesday night, there are now just four undefeated teams left in the country — Ohio State, Kansas, Syracuse, and SDSU. And while, on paper, SDSU seems to be the outlier in this group, don’t be fooled by…
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UPSET SPECIAL Sat. 8:00 pm: St. John’s @ No. 15 Notre Dame: The Johnnies are back, baby! Well, at least they will be if they can put together a win in a Saturday night foray into the Joyce Center. After beating West Virginia and Providence on the road and knocking off Georgetown at home, St.…
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Blogger spotlight: Bearcatsblog previews Cincinnati-Xavier
Jan 6, 2011, 11:30 AM EDT
Today kicks off a weekly feature where we spotlight a college hoops blogger and hit ‘em with a serious of questions heading into one of the week’s big games. This week, it’s Scott King, who runs Bearcatsblog. His Cincinnati Bearcats play Xavier in the Crosstown Shootout tonight. We chatted about that, the best Cincinnati team…
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UPSET SPECIAL Fri. 2:00 pm: Charleston @ Tennessee: To be honest, I’m not sure if this can even qualify as an Upset Special with the way that Tennessee has been playing of late. After knocking off then-No. 3 Pitt in Pittsburgh in early December, the Vols lost three straight games — to Oakland, Charlotte, and…
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UPSET SPECIAL Sat. 2:00 pm: Cleveland State @ West Virginia: If every college basketball team in Division I was to be ranked strictly according to record, Cleveland State would be the No. 1 team in the country. The Vikings are currently the only team in the country sitting at 12-0. Granted, that 12-0 hasn’t come…
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UPSET SPECIAL Sun. 2:00 pm: No. 12 Villanova @ La Salle: No city in the country does rivalries quite like Philly. Known as the Big 5, Villanova, Temple, La Salle, Penn, and St. Joseph’s play a yearly round robin, with the winner getting city bragging rights for the whole year. While the tradition and the…
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Back in October, before the season officially kicked off and every website was pouring out their season previews, the general consensus seemed to be that the Big Ten and the Big XII were going to be vying for the spot atop the conference power rankings this year. It made sense. The Big XII was home…
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UPSET SPECIAL Sat. 12:00 pm: Utah State @ No. 14 Georgetown: While Kenpom may be telling you that Washington State over Kansas State is the upset to watch out for, I’m going with the Utah State. Stew Morrill runs one of the most consistently underrated programs in the country. Generally, he avoids playing road games…
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I’ve always loved the concept of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Two of the best conferences in the country teeing off against one another for bragging rights over a two day span. When it comes to college hoops in December, it doesn’t get much better than that. I’ve said this before, and I will say it…
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For the third straight season, ESPN will be airing their 24 Hour Tip-Off Marathon, which starts at midnight tonight. Twenty games in total, over the course of 25 hours. Its what every college basketball fan dreams about. Here is the full schedule: Midnight: Miami at Memphis, ESPN2:00 am: St. John’s at Saint Mary’s, ESPN4:00 am:…
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- It looks like College of Charleston will be leaving the SoCon in order to join the CAA. Davidson on the other hand will not be leaving. Jeff Eisenberg explains why both schools got it right. This is your #ReadoftheDay – Just go read the latest from Glen Logan at A Sea of Blue. His…
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- An awesome story about what Nerlens Noel did to show his support for a young Kentucky fan battling cancer (We have ourselves a #RefereeGuy Vinny Swope Reference!) – Sign me up for this: Butler is auctioning off a chance to walk the beloved Butler Blue II out to the Hinkle Fieldhouse court for the…
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- Ken Pomeroy once again provides the #ReadoftheDay. The grandmaster advanced statistician took a long hard look at the 18th most improbable comeback from last season. You should vaguely remember it too. NCAA Tournament Opening Round: Western Kentucky vs. Mississippi Valley State -Boston College head coach Steve Donahue believes that there is not another conference in the…
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Monday was a busy news day. Kevin Ware began his recovery, West Virginia lost a trio of players, NC-State lost two, Tubby didn’t stay fired for long, and the maestro of #DunKCity is moving to SoCal. let’s hit the links. Read of the Day: This is the best story on Kevin Ware yet. His team…
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On Thursday evening, the NCAA tournament’s Sweet 16 play will begin, meaning we’ll be four days away from finding out who the four teams are that will be playing for the national title in Atlanta. And in case you spent the past four days living under a rock or on a really, really long flight…
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NCAA Picks: A quick breakdown of some 2013 Final Four possibilities
Mar 19, 2013, 2:01 PM EDT
This has been a season of upsets, underdogs, and unpredictability. The conventional wisdom has been that the NCAA tournament will follow suit. But will it? Will we see four No. 1 seeds in Atlanta, or none at all? Check out the tiered preview below: The Top: These are the teams that, when judging by seed…
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Round of 32 No. 7 Creighton-No. 2 Duke (Midwest) Doug McDermott has been one of the most dominant players in the country this season and will now be able to play on a national stage against a universally recognizable program in the NCAA tournament if the Bluejays and Blue Devils meet in the Round of…
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Just a couple of years ago, it would have been difficult to call any game a “must-see”, simply because television coverage of the NCAA tournament was heavily regionalized. If you lived in, say, Tampa and wanted to watch the Salt Lake City pod, your local channel might not show it. It was off to the…
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Filling out a NCAA Tournament bracket is a time-honored tradition shared by those familiar and those new to college basketball. Everybody fills out a bracket, from President Barack Obama to the paper delivery boy, everybody does it. But the act of filling out a bracket that accurately predicts the winners of each game is task that…
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The top overall seed in the 2013 NCAA Tournament, the Louisville Cardinals, receive the perk of landing in the Midwest Region which will culminate in Indianapolis. The Cardinals, who shared the Big East regular season title and won the conference tournament, open with the winner of the opening round game between Liberty and North Carolina…
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The NCAA Tournament doesn’t get going until March 19, but for the real college hoops fans, the days leading up to Selection Sunday is when the madness really begins. Over the next two weeks teams will fight for the postseason lives. Bubbles will burst and tickets will be punched, and Cinderellas will be born. This…
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Tickets continue to get punched. Five teams gained entrance to the madness last night, including Gonzaga of course, Davisdson of course, Iona mild surprise, James Madison sure, why not? and Western Kentucky Seriously? Again? Let’s hit the links. Read of the Day: Middle Tennessee won the Sun Belt by five games. But a fluke loss…
