The first round of the NCAA Tournament is officially complete. Every No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 seed is still standing, which we couldn’t have said last year, obviously. Twelve higher-seeded teams won their first-round matchup but just eight if you don’t count the 8/9 games. Here’s our breakdown of the winners and losers […]
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 […]
No. 10 seeds have won roughly 38 percent of their first-round games against No. 7 seeds historically so that alone makes No. 7 seed Nevada vs. No. 10 seed Florida a game to keep an eye on. But the contrast in perception between the two teams for most of the season makes this Thursday evening […]
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 […]
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 […]
Three years ago, UNLV had Chris Beard. Then Tubby Smith left Texas Tech for Memphis, and Beard’s stint in Vegas lasted less than two weeks before he went to Texas Tech. UNLV scrambled and wound up with New Mexico State’s Marvin Menzies, who brought a ton of mediocrity to the Runnin’ Rebels program before he […]
Once the 2019 NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed on Selection Sunday, we’ll be able to break down which matchups and potential paths to Minneapolis are conducive to the latest batch of national title contenders. But until then, we took another approach at examining this year’s national title contenders: karma. There’s no stat for karma but […]
Eight of college basketball’s 32 conferences are projected to send multiple teams to the NCAA Tournament, according to Stadium’s latest tournament projections. For any conference with at least one at-large team, but especially those eight conferences, if a school that isn’t projected to earn an at-large bid wins the conference tournament, that will qualify as […]
Once the 2019 NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed on Selection Sunday, we’ll be able to break down which matchups and potential paths to Minneapolis are conducive to the latest batch of national title contenders. But until then, we took another approach at examining this year’s top programs: karma. There’s no stat for karma, but in […]
The next month or so will bring NCAA Tournament games, a national champion and no shortage of hirings and firings. We wondered, what have been the home-run hires and the major flops over the past decade – and who made them? First, here are the 10 best coaching hires over the past 10 years. […]
Eleven ranked teams are in action Tuesday night, including five teams ranked in the top 10 and nine teams that are projected to earn a top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament, according to Stadium’s latest NCAA Tournament projections. Here’s a look at the biggest games on Tuesday night and how their results could affect the […]
Beginning in 2020, the Las Vegas Bowl will annually feature a team from the Pac-12 against a team from the SEC or Big Ten, and a new bowl in Los Angeles will feature the Pac-12 against the Mountain West, sources told Stadium. Other changes: The ACC will add the Holiday Bowl, the SEC and Big […]
Fourteen ranked teams lost since the release of the last AP Top 25 poll, including No. 3 Duke at Virginia Tech. No. 1 Gonzaga finished conference play with an undefeated conference record, as did Wofford. Here’s how we predict the college basketball AP Top 25 poll to look like in Week 18. 1. Gonzaga […]
