Loyola Marymount, the 9-seed in the West Coast Conference, pulled a minor upset 65-54 Wednesday over 8-seed Portland, and if they pull two more upsets they could earn the right to play the No. 1 team in the country, Gonzaga, for
It looked like the Patriot League might produce two All-Americans and two bids, but with Lehigh’s CJ McCollum (23.9 PPG, beat Duke in last year’s tourney) apparently still out with a broken foot, All-American center Mike Muscala was able to
The Ohio Valley Conference could argue that they are actually a mid-major with Belmont and Murray State together and an improving Eastern Kentucky. All of the top eight players (see below) on www.valueaddbasketball.com are among the Top 40 low-major players
Robert Morris won the regular season title in the Northeast Conference, and now gets home court through the rest of the tournament including what they hope will be a championship game on March 12 to determine who goes to the
Since Florida Gulf Coast stunned Miami early this year, everyone has anticipated a Mercer vs. Florida Gulf Coast championship game on Saturday to determine which Atlantic Sun team goes to the tournament. Mercer is rated slightly higher at 129th at
LeBron James seems set on perfecting his game and eradicated every defect. Michael Jordan said before the All-Star game that the key to stopping James was to force him left because he always pulls up for a jumper. Wednesday with
Columbia is joining the new Big East. Not really, but after the middle of the pack Ivy League team went into Villanova for a huge win, no one would have expected that Villanova would beat three Big East teams ranked
Ray McCallum was the best player in the Horizon League and 12th best in the country this year and Detroit has three of the top five players, but Valparaiso earned home court advantage throughout the tournament by winning the conference.
Anthony Raffa was rated as the top player in the Big South and 16th best low-major player, but his Coastal Carolina team was one of four teams to see its season end Tuesday with an opening round loss in the
The day after the Top 25 teams were released, Tuesday’s release of the Top 25 Value Add players indicates the three hottest players have their teams on top of the Big East and Missouri Valley Conferences. Noone is going to catch Trey
LeBron James is within three games of Michael Jordan’s longest winning streak, as the Miami Heat beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 97-81 Monday. The Heat now goes back to Miami and can tie the Bulls’ longest winning streak if they beat
This is the key week for the stars who play in the Low-Major Conferences starting their tournaments, likely for their only chance to go to the NCAA tournament. The following is the Breitbart Sports Low-Major All-American team. Except for Harvard
The Ivy League title and a bid to the NCAA tournament has come down to Princeton (9-2 in Ivy League) and Harvard (9-3), making them two of 325 teams who can win the NCAA National Championship if they just win
Look out NBA – the Lakers are back at .500 and Kobe Bryant’s guaranty that they will be in the playoffs may be scaring opponents after their miserable start to the season. Three times in the last three minutes the
Michigan is one of many teams to take a turn at No. 1 this year, but for months no one has challenged their point guard Trey Burke as the top player in college basketball. A new player has risen to
It would take LeBron James at least five more years to catch Michael Jordan’s six NBA titles, but he needs just four more wins to match his all-time win streak at 18 games. Sunday appeared to be the biggest obstacle
Every SEC team was in action Saturday – the question now is if any of them besides Florida and Missouri will be playing in the NCAA tournament. Monday Breitbart Sports listed only two SEC teams as “locks” for NCAA bids, and we
Ryan Kelly was injured during Duke’s humiliating 90-63 loss at Miami. During his 15 games before getting injured, he was averaging a nice 13 points, nine shots and five rebounds a game, so his return from the injured list for
MILWAUKEE – During the past year in Wisconsin you often could not pick up prescriptions or do shopping without being asked to sign a petition to remove former Marquette student Governor Walker as Governor, and before that legislators could not
MILWAUKEE – The history of Notre Dame vs. Marquette battles that included legendary coaches Digger Phelps and Al McGuire battling with All-Americans and national title implications may have ended with the most unlikely star in one-eyed unknown center Chris Otule.
Watch out NBA. Even with a very human LeBron James, the heat ended Memphis 8-game winning streak by winning their 13th straight. Memphis played almost a perfect game and held James to just four points through three quarters, but Dwyane
Since Christmas the St. Mary’s has won 17 straight games when playing any who is not about to be the No. 1 team in the country (Gonzaga), but they may have received a late Christmas present from the NCAA by
Against NCAA tournament-bound teams, Joe Harris (photo) is averaging 22 points a game – Thursday he scored 36 against No. 3 Duke. In those same games Akil Mitchell is averaging 11 rebounds a game, Thursday he had 12. Put it together
When the Catholic 7 broke away from the Big East I wrote that the most likely additional teams were Xavier, Butler and VCU and that they should be able to keep the Big East name due to the breakdown of
Tennessee’s upset of Florida earlier in the week is the biggest development among the Middle 20 this week, and tonight Virginia and Brigham Young have the big chances for resume building home upsets that would move them up the Breitbart
