John Pudner

Many 2016 March Madness games will be decided in the next five days when stars must choose between the NBA and one more college run.

The initial Value Add Projections for 2016 have Villanova and LSU as Final Four teams after Trevor Lacey and Bobby Portis announced for the NBA Draft Wednesday. Portis projected as the third-best returning player, but his Arkansas team dropped from 6th to 24th after his announcement.

Breitbart Sports talked to the mentor of Thabo Sefolosha of the Atlanta Hawks in the wake of the player’s claim that New York City police caused his season-ending injury as reported by Breitbart Sports and other sources.

A few years ago I was walking across the bridge in Pittsburgh that leads to the Pirates stadium when a homeless man saw my Marquette shirt and stopped playing his clarinet to yell, “Marc Marotta was overrated!”

The simple story is that three college basketball players were much better than the other 4,000. Each of those was worth more than 11 points a game to his team than what a replacement player would have provided, while no one else was worth even 10 additional points.

In 2004, Duke became the first team with three top 40 Value Add players, and today Duke becomes the first team to top that mark with four Top 40 players after the run by Justise Winslow.

Charles Barkley said the key to the national championship was whether Jahlil Okafor or Frank Kaminsky was in foul trouble. Okafor endured foul trouble, yet Duke won. Duke rallied for the win only after Kaminsky dominated Okafor so bad that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski had to sit Okafor almost the entire last 12 minutes.

Most were shocked when Breitbart Sports was the first outlet to name Frank Kaminsky as the best center in the country back on February 14, 2014. Winning the title required him to beat the best two NBA prospects, and after scoring 20 points and grabbing 11 rebounds against Kentucky’s Karl-Anthony Towns he now faces Jahlil Okafor.

After a week of hearing religious liberty attacked, my religion doesn’t let me watch the biggest college game of the year Saturday night. This from an Alabaman who drove to Indiana to see the Hoosiers upset Kentucky in a regular

Breitbart Sports ranks the top-100 players with basketball left in them in the NCAA, NIT, CBI, and CIT.

Louisville’s win slipped away when Mangok Mathiang’s shot rolled off the rim with two seconds to play. Gonzaga faded in the final five minutes after Przemek Karnowski drew a double team and passed to All-American Kyle Wiltjer only to have him miss a game-tying open lay-up.

Duke is one of only six teams with three top 100 players at www.valueaddbasketball.com, and 83% of those teams made the Elite 8. Gonzaga is one of the less than 1% of teams without three top 100 players to make the Elite 8, but we are picking their four NBA prospects to expose Duke’s inside defense and pull the upset.

Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith once again showed their ignorance of college basketball this week, complementing a player not playing, saying another player would be the key to Arizona beating Wisconsin before he was outscored 27-6, and backing the Arizona pick that dropped President Obama to 20% against the Breitbart Sports bracket.

With 14:26 to go, Notre Dame’s Pat Connaughton drove to the hoop for a dunk that gave them a 46-42 lead, and Ashley Judd covered her head. The rest of the game was a battle, and with 2:36 to go Connaughton found Jerian Grant 24 feet from the basket and Grant buried the long three-pointer to give Notre Dame a 66-64 lead.

Gonzaga’s 74-62 win increased Obama’s deficit, but different rules could give him a second chance to win his bracket. Meanwhile “Our Mother,” translated as Notre Dame, will try to upset the overwhelming favorite Kentucky just as they did when they

In his first game since yelling, “What the F… is wrong with Barack Obama?” NC State’s Anthony “Cat” Barber will go up against one of only two teams that feature two Breitbart Sports All-Americans.

Count on the New York Times to base a piece on how few people watched Texas Southern in March Madness ($1.134 billion in TV revenue to rank barely behind NFL playoffs) while three other much better March Madness games aired on other channels.

Who moves on to the Elite Eight? Breitbart Sports breaks down the Sweet Sixteen.

The Occupy Movement appears to have spread to basketball courts to address concerns over new Value Add calculations showing the top 1% are now considered “more valuable” than the bottom 44%.

President Obama’s Barack-et had two more double-digit losses to Breitbart Sports picks Sunday, guaranteeing that the commander-in-chief cannot catch Breitbart Sports’s bracket even if the president’s picks on the remaining 15 days of March Madness all come in correct.

When the brackets were announced Gallup measured a net positive job approval rating for President Obama. Since then, Obama has dropped to a -9% (43% approve, 52% disapprove).

West Virginia, which voted 62%-36% against President Obama in 2012, beat his bracket pick Friday, or at least the state’s marquee college basketball team did, to push him behind Breitbart Sports. Then Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins said he does not pay any attention to President Obama.

Best Madness Predictor? If you went with the Breitbart Sports published brackets for each region you are a strong 12-4, but if you simply took the team with the best Value Add player in each game you are definitely winning your bracket at 14-2.

After a record five one-point games in a single day, March Madness resumes at 12:15 pm ET with Kansas against New Mexico State.

Sixteen games play on four networks for the next twelve hours. Skip your local listings and check Breitbart Sports’s tournament TV schedule.