Five Things: First Teams Clinch NCAA Tournament Bids
It's the most exciting time of year for college basketball fans. Some of the smaller conferences have wrapped up their tournaments, while the bigger leagues' are set to begin.
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It's the most exciting time of year for college basketball fans. Some of the smaller conferences have wrapped up their tournaments, while the bigger leagues' are set to begin.
Here are the teams ranked 21-25 and a few key facts to help you get to know them.
Here are the teams ranked 16-20 and a few key facts to help you get to know them.
Alec Peters is not just a scorer. The 6'9" forward proved that in the first half of Valparaiso's regular season finale against Cleveland State, passing out of double teams and attempting just two shots.
Here are the teams ranked 11-15 and a few key facts to help you get to know them.
Here are the teams ranked 6-10 and a few key facts to help you get to know them.
Sheldon McClellan scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half and Davon Reed tied a career-high with 19 as Miami kept its slim hopes of an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament alive with a 67-63 win over Pittsburgh on Wednesday night.
Here are the top five teams and a few key facts to help you get to know them.
Saturday's slate was incredible, and some of the biggest and best games are recapped below. In many conferences, regular season concluded this past weekend, meaning the league tournaments are set to begin (some as early as tomorrow).
Here are five games this week that will get you ready for the upcoming NCAA Tournament.
NFL scouts and general managers spend tireless hours watching collegiate players in order to make what they hope are the best decisions on who to pursue.
FSU, UVa, Miami favorites at ACC baseball tourney
Young scored 20 points for Kentucky last night, twice as many as the next highest-scoring Wildcat, in a 60-54 loss to Connecticut. This was Young's ninth 20-plus point game and he led Kentucky with 17 in the Final Four win over Wisconsin.
Last night, the Huskies cut down the nets in Dallas after beating Kentucky 60-54 to win the school's fourth national championship. Consider that Kentucky needed four straight late escapes to reach the final and you get a sense for what kind of Tournament this was.
Connecticut's upperclassmen were too much for the kids of Kentucky.
Shabazz Napier scored 22 points and Connecticut won its second NCAA title in four years, beating all those Kentucky freshmen 60-54 in the championship game Monday night.
There's an old saying of what a difference a year makes. For the University of Connecticut and the University of Kentucky, it's the difference between sitting at home and playing for a national championship.
The wildest NCAA Tournament of the modern era culminates with an 8 seed versus a 7 seed for the championship. Kentucky, a 74-73 winner over Wisconsin on Saturday, will face Connecticut, which upset Florida 64-53.
Scottie Wilbekin sat hunched in his locker, his eyes red, his voice hush and his legs still cramping.
Aaron Harrison hit a 3-pointer with 5.7 seconds left to lift Kentucky to a one-point victory over Wisconsin.
The national semifinals drew 79,444 AT&T Stadium, beating the previous record of 78,129 when Kentucky beat Michigan State in a regular-season game at Ford Field in Detroit on Dec. 13, 2003.
DeAndre Daniels had 20 points and 10 rebounds to help UConn snap Florida's 30-game win streak.
Mention Connecticut basketball and Shabazz Napier is the first name to come up. Talk about top-ranked Florida and Scottie Wilbekin is the player most often brought up.
The Florida Gators have lost two games this season, one to Wisconsin (November 12) and the other to Connecticut (December 2). That makes it fitting that if the Gators want to win another national championship, they may have to beat both teams.
Calipari embraces the sordid system, uses it, and dominates. He doesn't pretend he's taking kids for the leafy campus life, for the diploma that will never arrive, or even for a few classes. He wants talent. And talent he gets. And talented he is.
