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If he and his North Carolina basketball coaches and teammates can get past that small but often difficult part about perception, Ty Lawson should play craps here every available second until the Tar Heels are eliminated from the Final Four or crowned its champion.
A colleague was bragging the other day about her NCAA Tournament bracket. She was closing in on first place and purposefully inquired where my entry sat among more than 60, knowing full well it had exploded like a cargo ship in Halifax Harbour once Wake Forest decided that rolling over and beginning its offseason early was more enticing than winning a lousy game or two.
Billy Packer …
Chalk defines teams that have advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16, but it has nothing to do with how well the leading players might translate in the NBA.
Pete Manarino coached for decades in the mecca of youth softball. He witnessed the skill, watched it be nurtured, lost track of the number of travel teams at, oh, tons.
The Wranglers today are like a home ready to be shown to interested buyers, but not yet listed.
Paul Howard wants you to know his betting tickets are for sale. The ones with Siena and Texas A&M and Virginia Commonwealth winning the NCAA Tournament.
When order has been restored and all the nonmajor basketball programs are sent home from the NCAA Tournament — or, in the case of this year’s Cinderella-lacking bracket, all the below-average-to-awful Big Ten teams and Arizona — the Final Four will be staged in Detroit.
Exclusivity is an upsetting trend to everyone except perhaps Jim Nantz. It is everything college football has become and everything we once could count on the NCAA Tournament avoiding.
UNLV has a men’s basketball team today preparing not for the NCAA Tournament but rather a first-round National Invitation Tournament matchup at Kentucky for one reason.
Craig Thompson and his Mountain West Conference brethren stand on the other side of the fence today, from seeking an objective process in football to hoping a subjective one in basketball falls in their direction.
Gonzaga basketball coach Mark Few was asked Sunday night about what it meant for the West Coast Conference to move its postseason tournament off a participating school’s home floor to the neutral setting of the Orleans Arena.
Jamie Smith is the basketball player that has undoubtedly kept college coaches up late visualizing all the rebounds and instinctive plays and clutch shots they might have owned had they just looked harder at those darn highlight tapes.
