First Upset Of Tourney, No. 13 Morehead State Beats No. 4 Louisville
In the first upset of the 2011 NCAA Tournament, the 13th seeded Morehead State Eagles shocked the 4th seeded Louisville Cardinals.
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In the first upset of the 2011 NCAA Tournament, the 13th seeded Morehead State Eagles shocked the 4th seeded Louisville Cardinals.
For the next two and a half weeks we all become college basketball fans. Even if you did not watch a single minute of the regular season or know who is broadcasting the tournament itself, we all fill out a bracket.
For the first time in the history of the NCAA Tournament, every game will be nationally televised. But there's another addition to this year's tournament coverage that has fans excited, Charles Barkley.
In 1965, the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium featured its own version of a "First Four," before the Fab Four made history.
It's time to put on your dancing shoes, make those last minute tweaks to your bracket and celebrate St. Patrick's Day with corned beef, green beer and what is sure to be a full day of crazy tournament action.
Just one day away form the start of a two-day stretch that is sure to feature plenty of upsets and memorable games, it doesn't hurt to get a little bit of last minute help with your bracket.
We are now at the start of the March Madness. We gather around our computers and smartphones and hope our teams have a successful run so we can get the unfiltered thrill that only comes with the purity of college basketball.
Sure the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee left out teams like Colorado, Virginia Tech and St. Mary's, but what's more troublesome was how poorly the committee seeded teams.
Despite there being plenty of controversy surrounding the NCAA Tournament selections and seedings, the ratings the for the Selection Show tied a sixteen-year low for CBS on Sunday evening.
The NCAA Tournament is one of the most physically and mentally taxing stretches any college basketball player will endure. And the players out of the Big East conference might be the best prepared to take on that challenge.
As the their season came to a close, some thought that the Fighting Illini had already secured their place in the NCAA Tournament.
The decision to expand the NCAA Tournament was supposed to help reduce the controversy surrounding the teams made the cut and the teams that didn't.
The Northwestern Wildcats may have missed out on their first NCAA Tournament bid, but the team was able to secure their third-straight postseason appearance, a school record.
All the buzz this Monday revolves around seeding, matchups and bracket busters. In my world, there are only two ways to fill out a winning bracket.
The initial matchups for the 2011 NCAA Tournament have officially been set, now it's time for every sports fan to play college basketball expert and pick their way through the matchups and into the Final Four.
As expected the Big East got 11 teams in the NCAA Tournament. The record-setting number is as much of a product of the toughness of the league, as it is a show of the weakness of the entire field.
Surprisingly, seven Big Ten teams punched their tickets to the NCAA Tournament last night, but outside of the top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, do any of the other teams have what it takes to make a run to Houston?
Don't feel bad.....you are not alone. March Madness has become as American as the Air Jordans (made in China).
Ok, so the NCAA field is lame. The 68 slots are bloated with bleh, NBA scouts are muttering about the lack of future impact players, and we're fresh off a pretty ordinary season, to put it nicely.
It's filled with potential potholes and a bunch of hazard cones (orange ones, of course), and the only exit ramp off it leads straight back to Champaign.
The only chance the Northwestern Wildcats had of making the NCAA Tournament was to win the Big Ten Tournament, and for a while it looked like that might happen.
Indianapolis is a great basketball town, but Chicago is a great city.
Don't be that guy, this year. We all hate him, the one shouting "I had that!" and strutting past cubicles when a four-seed loses to Buttcrack State on a flailing put-back.
Thursday marks the start of the Big Ten Tournament. For some teams it's win or miss out on the NCAA Tournament, for others it won't matter much.
With conference tournaments already underway, it's not too late to to starting pegging some teams that could slip under the radar and do some damage once the big dance starts.
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The family says the team was not supposed to be running full-contact drills, and no helmets were worn.
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