The Miami Heat made it 19 wins in a row by dominating the Atlanta Hawks 98-81, giving LeBron James supporters another talking point as the streak topped Michael Jordan’s best streak ever. However, with Dwyane Wade continuing his torrid streak
After Monday’s action, you can find any Division 1 college team on one of four lists: the 50 teams that Breitbart Sports says are in the tournament, the Breitbart Sports Middle 20 that could be selected with strong finishes, the 124 listed below
Stony Brook’s incredible defense led by the duo of Low-Major All-American Tommy Brenton (6-foot-5) and 6-foot-8 Jameel Warney looked strong enough to upset a power conference team in the tournament, but they will not get that chance after a last
Anyone who doesn’t believe that almost every team gets invited to the “National” March Madness tournament, need only look at Western Kentucky. The Hilltoppers do not have a top 500 player on www.valueaddbasketball.com, and have not had a winning season
Gonzaga is the clear No. 1 in both the writers poll (see AP story here) and coaches poll (see UPI story on USA Today poll here), but they are only ranked 10th in RPI, which has been a bigger determiner
Temple beat VCU (21st in AP Top 25) 84-76 to make it very likely the Atlantic 10 will have five teams in the NCAA tournament (see the others on the Breitbart Sports list of 45 teams that have locked in bids
Liberty University was the big winner Sunday, claiming the 46th spots in the tournament. The team that likely took a spot away from the Breitbart Sports Middle 20 was Florida International, who shocked 1-seed and tournament lock Middle Tennessee in
Our preseason Player of the Year Cody Zeller (pictured grabbing one of his 10 rebounds) scored his 25th point with 13 seconds to go to give No. 2 Indiana a 72-71 lead at No. 7 Michigan with just 13 seconds
In the 1970s Jerry Falwell founded Lynchburg Baptist College and then worked to increase the political participation of fundamentalist Christians who had viewed politics as something to avoid. Now Liberty University will be known to a lot of people, as
The following three links take you to lists of the 45 locks for the NCAA tournament, the 164 teams that can only get a bid if they win their conference tournament, and the 118 eliminated teams. The only teams not on one of
There are 164 teams that will not get an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, but are still alive in their conference tournament. Any of these teams can win the national title if they do not lose again, winning the
San Diego was one of 230 teams still alive to go all the way until well after midnight Eastern time. All they had to do was pull off the overtime game against St. Mary’s Saturday … and then beat No.
At the conclusion of Saturday’s basketball play Harvard and Florida Gulf Coast had joined 43 other teams that were already locks to make the tournament. Belmont also won the Atlantic Sun tournament, but they were already a lock to make
In the preseason some thought that the Duke-UNC finale this year might not feature the ACC champion for a change. What is a surprise is that it is Miami, rather than preseason favorite NC State, who hosted the outright ACC
Two years ago almost every team wanted Pierre Jackson to play point guard for them for two years. Though only 5-foot-10, Jackson was the best Junior College player in the country and he looked like the best point guard in the country
Back on January 24, Breitbart Sports predicted something might be brewing in Los Angeles, as the freshman trio was only going to get better the rest of the season. The preseason Value Add ranking of UCLA as a potential Final Four
Georgetown claimed the Big East title and No. 1 seed in the Big East tournament by drubbing Syracuse 61-39 in the Orangemen’s last regular season Big East game before leaving for the ACC. Laster Saturday Marquette claimed a share of
With the Chicago Blackhawks loss, the Miami Heat now have the longest active win streak among pro teams. LeBron James dominated the Philadelphia 76ers for 34 minutes Friday, beating them by 19 points during the 34 minutes he was on
Georgia Southern (9-seed), Furman (8) and UNC Greensboro (10) all pulled upsets Friday to kick off the Southern Conference tournament. Saturday Georgia Southern kicks off action against 1-seed Davidson at noon ET. There is no longer a player named “Curry” on
Niagra is the 1-seed, but www.kenpom.com ranks them as the fourth best team in the very balanced Metro Atlantic Athletic tournament that started Friday and concludes Monday in Springfield, Mass. The five top teams are ranked between 100th and 138th. The top
Middle 20 fans should root hard for Middle Tennessee, because they truly deserve a bid regardless as the 27th best team in www.kenpom.com behind the duo of Marcos Knight and Bruce Massey, two of the top 100 Low-Major players. However,
Yale may have just put Harvard in the NCAA tournament. Ivy League students study during the week and play their games on Friday and Saturday. They also cannot take time away from the books for a tournament, so they are
Creighton’s Doug McDermott is the only player besides Cody Zeller to be in the Top 15 on www.valueaddbasketball.com last season and this season, and having surged from 28th to 14th in two weeks does deserve the Player of the Year consideration he is getting.
Breitbart Sports was ahead of others in saying on February 16 that Kentucky was heading out of the tournament, and by 10 days ago we had them a full five spots out of the tournament at No. 12 in the Middle
Buffalo Wild Wings latest basketball theme commercial portrays an NCAA tournament expanded to 256 teams, giving even mediocre teams a theoretical chance to win the title. In fact, that is already done, we just call the first rounds of the
