SAN JOSE, Calif. — Most of the blame is dumped on the coach when a game or a season ends in depression. Dave Rice deserves some criticism at the conclusion of his second season.
NCAA Tournament
AUSTIN, Texas — Minnesota coach Tubby Smith got the win he needed to calm his critics at home. UCLA’s Ben Howland took a loss that will only ignite a new round of howling for his job out West.
PHILADELPHIA — San Diego State did nothing spectacular and might not find its play on many tournament video clips.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Before the NCAA Tournament begins, Rick Pitino likes to scan the list of teams, looking for a few sleepers he considers “dangerous.”
Dunks are more exciting than free throws, and that’s stating the obvious, but Doug McDermott is the type of player who excites bettors even though he’s not a big-time dunker.
I suppose there is a silver lining for UNLV basketball today, hidden somewhere in the mess of yet another opening-game loss in the NCAA Tournament.
There might not be a more fitting moniker for an event than “March Madness.”
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Colorado State didn’t think its NCAA Tournament opener against Missouri would go this smoothly.
SALT LAKE CITY — Give those Harvard kids an A-plus in another subject: Bracketbusting 101.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dominic Artis anticipated Marcus Smart’s pass and took the interception the other way for a layup early to set the tone for Oregon.
Tim Husted has spent his entire adult life making a yearly March Madness pilgrimage from the Midwest to Las Vegas to park himself in front of a wall of TV screens for 14 hours on the first full day of NCAA basketball tournament games.
The Review-Journal’s Adam Hill, Kelly Stewart and Matt Youmans compete against handicappers Bruce Marshall and Ken Thomson in a contest covering NCAA Tournament games today and Friday.
It was not predetermined, and this is unlikely to be a popular pick. Even since the return of senior forward Ryan Kelly from a foot injury, Duke has been far from dominant. So how did it come to this?
A sampling of some of the best places in town to experience the NCAA Tournament:
If anything, the shove exposed the urgency that has attached itself to Mike Montgomery’s legacy. Perhaps it was for motivation’s sake, of driving his best player to greater heights. Perhaps it came from that cavernous place that said the moment was big, the game was bigger, and not many of either are left in his coaching career.
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