Jon Rothstein's NCAA Tournament Primer: Picks, Upset Alerts And Players To Watch
It's that time again! See which teams hoops expert Jon Rothstein has moving on from each region in this year's NCAA Tournament.
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It's that time again! See which teams hoops expert Jon Rothstein has moving on from each region in this year's NCAA Tournament.
Syracuse and Georgetown, one more heavyweight clash in Madison Square Garden. Two original Big East titans toe-to-toe on the New York stage. Jim Boeheim. John Thompson III. One ... last ... time.
I'm well aware of what Duke has accomplished with Ryan Kelly in the lineup, but there's just something about this group of Cardinals that makes me believe that Rick Pitino will wind up winning his second national championship.
King played with the Nets from 1977-1979 and with the Knicks from 1982-1987. He finished his career with New Jersey in 1993. The Brooklyn native was a four-time NBA All-Star and the 1985 NBA scoring champion.
Tuesday night's showdown with the Golden Gophers is the beginning of a pivotal nine-day stretch for Florida State. The Seminoles also host Florida next Wednesday, December 5, in Tallahassee.
Texas coach Rick Barnes doesn't have a go-to guy like he did last year with J'Covan Brown but he's absolutely thrilled with what he's seen from his team so far this fall.
Just how good is Louisville? Well, this has the potential to be Rick Pitino's best team since he stepped back into the Commonwealth 11 years ago.
Steve Masiello, who was an assistant under Pitino for six years at Louisville, once told me he planned to incorporate 99.9% of what he learned from his mentor into his own program. And that's exactly what's happened.
With early entries to the 2012 NBA Draft set, college hoops insider Jon Rothstein updated his early Top 25.
Only one person has been in the type of high-profile position in sports that John Callipari is in and handled it with such poise, and that was Joe Torre when he was manager of the New York Yankees.
The Buckeyes don't wow you offensively but are exceptionally tough and seem to land every 50-50 ball. On Saturday, that will be the difference.
A major element in Saturday's Final Four showdown between Louisville and Kentucky will be the Cardinals' match up zone.
Rick Pitino and John Calipari have met before in the Final Four --- it was 16 years ago in 1996 when Pitino was at Kentucky and Calipari was at Umass --- but this is different.
Cardinals finished the game on a 23-8 run for a 72-68 victory over Donovan's stunned Florida team.
Who doesn't love the NCAA tourney? Jon Rothstein tells us why this year's tournament will live up to its March Madness moniker.
Louisville withstood a closing run by Cincinnati for a 50-44 victory Saturday night that gave the Cardinals their second Big East tournament championship.
Sean Miller told me prior to the season that he hoped his young team would develop to the point where they'd be playing their best basketball toward the end of the year.
Ed Cooley grew up in Providence watching Rick Pitino and his beloved Friars advance to the 1987 Final Four. Fast forward 25 years and Cooley's first ever Big East win as head coach of Providence is against Rick Pitino and his 14th ranked Louisville Cardinals.
St. John's couldn't hit a shot. Well, the Red Storm did make one in a span of 26 shots in a 73-58 loss to No. 11 Louisville on Tuesday night.
Masiello on the court is as good as I've seen. It's hard to believe he hasn't coached a Division 1 game yet.
After another great Friday night of Semi-Finals action, we are in for a special Big East Championship tonight at the Garden as Louisville takes on UConn.
Preston Knowles, despite playing the final 10 minutes of regulation and overtime with four fouls, scored 20 points to lead No. 14 Louisville to an 83-77 victory over No. 4 Notre Dame on Friday night.
Preston Knowles hit three 3-pointers in a game-opening 17-2 run and Louisville held Rutgers to its lowest point total in four years in a 55-37 victory Tuesday night.
The three New York area Big East schools all had new coaches to start the season. Steve Lavin, Mike Rice and Kevin Willard have made it to the halfway point, each trying to turn around a program in what is without argument the best conference in the country.
A jury has convicted a Kentucky woman of demanding millions of dollars from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino after the two had sex in a restaurant.
