On March 4, 1990, Hank Gathers died on the court while playing basketball for Loyola Marymount University, the most high-powered offense in the country. A year earlier he had become only the second player in NCAA history to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding in the same year.
Gathers had a heart condition, for which he took...
After controversy among fans about the seeding and a few wild finishes, we have found ourselves ready for the Final Four with an unexpected quartet of teams ready to compete for the title in Phoenix. Two of the four teams are making the first appearance and one of the remaining two is making their first appearance since the very...
A year ago around this time of year, the buzz of college basketball centered around a freshman from Melbourne, Australia, named Benjamin David Simmons.
Simmons never got a chance to show off his skills in the NCAA Tournament - LSU missed the tournament with a 19-14 record. But the 6-foot-10 ball-handling forward averaged 19.2...
The one shining moment could only belong to one college basketball dynasty on Monday night as the Kentucky Wildcats and the UConn Huskies met on a collision course in North Texas as the two power-houses battled for the right to cut down the nets.
Despite how Kentucky seemed to be destined to redeem to title of the “Fab Five” by...
For the first time in 30 years, the Dayton Flyers will be playing in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA tournament. The 11-seed Cinderella upended 10-seed Stanford Thursday night to continue on their magical run.
Dayton got even contributions from across the board, as four players scored in double figures and only one player who...
The battle for who was going to be the fourth number-one seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament was as up-in-the-air as it has ever been. Villanova, Kansas, Virginia, and Louisville were all in the mix to grab that last spot atop the bracket. Ultimately, it was the Cavs who were granted the top seed by virtue of their regular season ACC...
Every year there is some school that manages to captivate the country's imagination, a minnow that roars back against the big fish of March Madness. While college football delights in restricting access for mid-major schools, basketball at the Division I level revels in these Cinderella stories. For some schools, merely reaching the...
Welcome to the fifth week of the greatest mailbag on the face of the planet, the Sports Unbiased Mailbag. If you haven’t seen the Mailbag before, it works like this. You, the readers, send us, Alex and Chris, sports questions to either @SU_Mailbag on Twitter, the Facebook page at Sports Unbiased Mailbag, or shoot us an email at...
With just a week left before the bracket is finalized for this year's NCAA Tournament, teams are jostling for position in conference tournaments and regular-season finales. To get into the spirit of March Madness, we have taken a look at the numbers and found 16 sweet facts to get you fired up for the NCAA Tournament:
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If a coach ever wanted his players to model their game after anybody in college basketball, they would more than likely pick Doug McDermott.
He rebounds. He leads his team emotionally. He moves without the ball as well as anyone in the nation. And, of course, he scores.
Who better to preach these qualities than his own...
