The 2019 NCAA Tournament was unveiled on Selection Sunday and Duke, Virginia, North Carolina and Gonzaga are the four No. 1 seeds. You can read our bracket reactions and region-by-region breakdown here. [RELATED: Here’s What You Hear When You Sit Courtside] NCAA Tournament play will officially kick off with the First Four in Dayton, Ohio, […]
No. 4 Virginia Tech def. No. 11 Saint Louis 66-52 12 – That’s how many more free throws Virginia Tech made than Saint Louis in its 14-point win. The Billikens out-rebounded the Hokies 35-37 but Virginia Tech got to the free throw line 27 times to Saint Louis’ 16. The Hokies were 22-of-27, while the […]
The NCAA Tournament provides incredible moments and displays of emotion, ranging from when Cinderella teams experience their first trip to the Big Dance to seniors coming to the realization that their college careers are coming to an end as their teams face an insurmountable deficit in the final minutes. For every NCAA Tournament matchup, starting […]
Two No. 13 seeds upset a No. 4 seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament – Buffalo over Arizona and Marshall over Wichita State – and while it’s rare that two No. 13 seeds advance in the same year, it’s perhaps more common than you might think that teams on that seed line make the second […]
When the NCAA announced the creation of a new metric to gauge college basketball teams, it was billed as an all-encompassing formula that would displace traditional metrics like RPI and effectively measure teams throughout the season. “What has been developed is a contemporary method of looking at teams analytically, using results-based and predictive metrics that […]
It’s officially the week of the 2019 NCAA Tournament. The bracket has been released and we’re here to help you make your picks. We assembled a four-person panel that includes Stadium’s Chinmay Vaidya, Michael Rizzo, Andy Wittry and Michael Bolling. We asked our panel seven questions about the NCAA Tournament bracket, including topics ranging from […]
The wait is over, the 2019 NCAA Tournament bracket has finally been revealed. Here are our immediate reactions and region breakdowns for the tournament bracket. The ACC makes history with three No. 1 Seeds The four No. 1 seeds in the 2019 NCAA Tournament are Duke, Virginia, North Carolina and Gonzaga. That’s a historic […]
The day has finally arrived. It’s Selection Sunday and the 2019 NCAA Tournament bracket has been released. Now comes the fun part of analyzing each region and picking first-round upsets, a dark horse team, the Final Four field and a national champion. But first, you need to print your bracket. You can find it here. […]
There will be 32 automatic bids earned to the 2019 NCAA Tournament over the course of the next two weeks. Many conference tournaments will be won by teams that would’ve made the NCAA Tournament regardless of how they fared in their conference tournament but some teams will “steal” valuable auto-bids, meaning they wouldn’t have made […]
We’ve finally reached Selection Sunday, which might as well be a national holiday for college basketball fans across the country. It marks the end of NCAA Tournament bracket projections and speculation as the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee will reveal the field of 68, including the four No. 1 seeds, the potential road to […]
KANSAS CITY — After Shaka Smart’s Texas Longhorns lost to fall to a mediocre 16-16, and will now hope to become the first-ever .500 team to make the NCAA tournament, Athletic Director Chris Del Conte failed to give a ringing endorsement of his head coach when asked whether Smart would return next season. “I won’t […]
March Madness is finally here, and behind the Super Bowl, it’s probably the biggest event in the world of sports betting. And because of the uniqueness that comes with the sport’s regular season conference tournaments, handicappers have to alter their usual betting strategy. There are distinctive situations to factor in that could give you an […]
Six of the top 10 prospects from the 2018 recruiting class play for a national championship contender and the same could be said of 14 of the top 25 recruits, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, Nevada, Kansas and LSU are among the 16 teams with the best odds of winning […]
College basketball’s regular season is officially over and conference tournament action is underway. There’s a new AP Top 25 poll to reflect the results from the final week of the regular season after North Carolina completed a season sweep of Duke, as did Michigan State against Michigan and Houston against Cincinnati. Here are reactions to […]
College basketball’s regular season is officially over, which means time is running out for teams to improve their resumes and climb onto the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble. Four automatic bids have already been clinched and if there’s a high number of bid stealers, then the number of at-large hopefuls will shrink. Here’s […]
