Winners and Losers After the NBA Draft Decision Deadline
The deadline for NBA Draft prospects to return to school or stay in the draft was Wednesday night. Jeff Goodman breaks down the winners and losers in college hoops.
Analyzing College Basketball’s Relationship Between Recruiting Rankings and Wins
College basketball coaches will hit the recruiting trail on Friday for the start of a six-day recruiting period in which they’re allowed to evaluate prospects and make in-person, off-campus contact with recruits. The final day of the official NCAA “recruiting period” for the 2018-19 recruiting calendar is Thursday, May 2, which means the next two-plus […]
March Madness 2019: NCAA Tournament National Championship Game Schedule, Dates, Times, Scores
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] Here’s the schedule for the Final Four. Matchup Date Time Location Channel No. 1 […]
Here’s How This Year’s Final Four Teams Stack Up to Years Past
The Final Four is set: No. 1 seed Virginia, No. 2 seed Michigan State, No. 3 seed Texas Tech and No. 5 seed Auburn. It’ll be the Cavaliers matched up against the Tigers and the Spartans vs. the Red Raiders in Minneapolis. How does each school stack up to the Final Four teams from years […]
Zion Williamson, R.J. Barrett Become First Freshman Teammates Since John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins to Earn First Team AP All-America Honors
Duke freshmen Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett were named to the five-player First Team Associated Press All-America team Tuesday, making them the first freshman teammates since Kentucky’s John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins in 2010 to earn the honor. Murray State’s Ja Morant, Michigan State’s Cassius Winston and Tennessee’s Grant Williams round out the First Team. […]
Auburn, Texas Tech, Purdue Among Best 2019 NCAA Tournament Bracket Picks
The 2019 NCAA Tournament isn’t over but we’re down to the Final Four and the three most popular picks to win the national championship, according to ESPN’s Tournament Challenge, have been eliminated. Here’s a look at the teams that had the best and worst “value” in bracket challenge games, meaning the difference between a team’s […]
Four Matchups to Watch in the West Region During the Sweet 16
Gonzaga, Florida State, Michigan and Texas Tech have advanced to the Sweet 16 in the West region after an underwhelming opening weekend in the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Two teams feature experienced coaches who have been in this spot plenty of times, while Texas Tech’s Chris Beard and Florida State’s Leonard Hamilton are attempting to make […]
Search Firm: Predicting BYU’s Next Head Basketball Coach
BYU’s Dave Rose is out as head basketball coach after 14 seasons. Rose and the school came to a mutual agreement that he would retire. Rose has dealt with health issues in the past, and has experienced plenty of success at the school – winning almost 350 games, going to eight NCAA tournaments and adding […]
Previewing No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 4 Florida State: Date, Time, Location, Spread
Overview Matchup: No. 1 seed Gonzaga vs. No. 4 seed Florida State Date: Thursday, March 28 Time: 7:09 p.m. ET Channel: CBS Location: Anaheim Spread: Gonzaga -7.5 How they got here: Gonzaga def. No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson, No. 9 seed Baylor Florida State def. No. 13 seed Vermont, No. 12 seed Murray State [RELATED: […]
A Chalky Opening Weekend in the NCAA Tournament Means the Best Is (Hopefully) Yet to Come
They say patience is a virtue and the patience of an upset-craving, viral-moment-retweeting national college basketball audience was tested in the first two rounds of the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Sunday’s thriller between No. 1 seed Duke and No. 9 seed UCF, which was highlighted by two unicorns of basketball players – let alone human beings […]
Here Are the Best Photos From the 2019 NCAA Tournament
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 […]
One Key Number From Every NCAA Tournament First Round Game
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 […]
What Would the 2019 NCAA Tournament Look Like Based on NET Rankings?
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 […]
2019 NCAA Tournament Automatic Bid Tracker: Conference Tournament Dates, Schedule
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 […]
Selection Sunday 2019: NCAA Tournament Bracket Show Date, Time, How to Watch
The 2019 NCAA Tournament bracket will be announced on Selection Sunday, which falls on Sunday, March 17 this year. It’s the most anticipated date in the sport’s calendar as college basketball players, coaches and fans alike find out which teams made the NCAA Tournament, which were snubbed and what the potential path to a national […]