After 40 minutes of evenly-matched basketball, the last Elite Eight showdown between the Michigan Wolverines and the Kentucky Wildcats came down to which team had the ball last. Shooting with Caris LeVert in his face, freshman guard Aaron Harrison put up a shot from behind the arc with 4.3 seconds remaining that proved the difference...
In his 20 years as the head coach at Michigan State, Tom Izzo has been a model of consistency. Every one of his recruiting classes has managed to play in at least one Final Four during their four years at the school... every one, that is, until the streak ended on Sunday. Against the Connecticut Huskies, the Spartans committed an...
Without an answer for seven-foot forward Frank Kaminsky, the Arizona Wildcats became the last Pac-12 team bounced from the NCAA Tournament on Saturday when they fell to the Wisconsin Badgers 64-63 in overtime. Kaminsky, who finished with 28 points and 11 rebounds, ended the game as the leading scorer.
In the first 12 minutes,...
Entering their showdown with the number-one overall seed in the 2014 NCAA Tournament, the Dayton Flyers were the last remaining double-digit seed left in the Elite Eight. But after taking down Ohio State and Syracuse and bulling past Stanford in the Sweet 16, Archie Miller's crew hung in early before the Florida Gators ratcheted up...
The Kentucky Wildcats rode their wave of momentum into the Elite Eight Friday night as John Calipari’s young squad took down the defending champions in dramatic fashion.
The Wildcats stormed back after being down 66-59 with 4:33 left in the game. The trio of Julius Randle, Alex Poythress and Aaron Harrison led the comeback for...
The monkey is finally off Bo Ryan's back. Since 2005, when the Badgers went to the Elite Eight before falling to eventual national champion North Carolina, Ryan has coached one talented Wisconsin team after another into the NCAA Tournament. More often than not, they entered the bracket as a top-five seed, ostensibly one of the top 20...
It’s NCAA Tournament time, and everyone is trying to fill out their brackets and predict who will fit the glass slipper this year. There are a few teams that could make a deep run, but it is those pesky teams that take out the high seeds early and ruin your “Billion Dollar Bracket.”
Bold Prediction #1: Baylor will...
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...
