
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.
by John Pudner6 Apr 2015, 8:57 PM PST0

Rihanna headlined the March Madness Music Festival in Indianapolis on Saturday, where she debuted her long-awaited new song “American Oxygen” and unloaded with both barrels on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
by Daniel Nussbaum6 Apr 2015, 8:17 AM PST0

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” took on the media coverage and participants in March Madness in their opening sketch. The sketch begins with commentator Charles Barkley admitting he doesn’t really like college basketball, but quickly turns to the teams as Duke
by Ian Hanchett4 Apr 2015, 9:23 PM PST0

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
by John Pudner4 Apr 2015, 9:54 AM PST0

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.
by John Pudner29 Mar 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

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.
by John Pudner28 Mar 2015, 8:55 PM PST0

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
by John Pudner28 Mar 2015, 9:45 AM PST0

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.
by John Pudner27 Mar 2015, 12:48 PM PST0

College basketball’s win-or-go-home NCAA Tournament rakes in surprisingly fewer viewers than a string of “meaningless” college football bowl games.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Mar 2015, 12:34 AM PST0

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%.
by John Pudner25 Mar 2015, 12:02 AM PST0

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.
by John Pudner23 Mar 2015, 12:02 AM PST0

Dave Zirin, Sports Editor for the Nation magazine, ripped the NCAA as “rank exploitation” and a “sham” on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. “Who are we really tuning in to watch? Who is wearing the corporate logos as they run
by Ian Hanchett21 Mar 2015, 8:38 PM PST0

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.
by John Pudner21 Mar 2015, 6:30 AM PST0

Charlie Sheen took to Twitter Wednesday to share his disdain for President Obama’s ESPN March Madness appearance, and after being labeled a “racist” by some news outlets for his use of Ebonics slang terms and a “birther” reference, refused to back down on Friday.
by Kipp Jones20 Mar 2015, 10:35 AM PST0

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.
by John Pudner20 Mar 2015, 6:03 AM PST0

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.
by John Pudner20 Mar 2015, 5:41 AM PST0

Sixteen games play on four networks for the next twelve hours. Skip your local listings and check Breitbart Sports’s tournament TV schedule.
by John Pudner19 Mar 2015, 9:24 AM PST0

Your bracket must be in by Thursday’s 12:15 ET tipoff between Notre Dame and Northeastern. The table included in the article outlines nine different paths to the title by evaluating the 64 remaining teams using nine separate measures.
by John Pudner18 Mar 2015, 7:46 PM PST0

Gonzaga has their best shot to make the Final Four, and they are virtually even with Duke as the top two teams in the region.
by John Pudner16 Mar 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

When the No. 1 seed in a bracket already beat the No. 2 seed (Kansas) 72-40 this season, one sees why the top seed plays as such a huge favorite. Two bigger threats to Kentucky than Kansas appear to be Wichita State and Notre Dame, teams who look evenly matched with each other.
by John Pudner16 Mar 2015, 7:02 AM PST0

The East looks the most wide open, with five teams within 10 points of each other when comparing seven categories.
by John Pudner16 Mar 2015, 6:19 AM PST0

Last year, it was Southern Methodist. This time around it’s Temple. Teams are sensing an anti-American sentiment coming from the NCAA selection committee. And we’re not talking about anti-Americanism in the sense of the flag-grabbing students at UC-Irvine.
by Kevin Scholla16 Mar 2015, 6:02 AM PST0

Four of the last six years the No. 1 Value Add player has led his team to the title. The two exceptions were when Kemba Walker finished No. 2 in 2011 and led UConn to the title, and when No. 1 Trey Burke’s Michigan team lost to the 2013 Louisville team, one of only three schools to ever have three of the top 30 Value Add players (Duke 2010 and this year’s Kentucky are the other two).
by John Pudner9 Mar 2015, 6:12 AM PST0

Despite 29 points from Jared Brownridge, Santa Clara became the 22nd team eliminated this weekend. It happened on a jumper by BYU’s Tyler Haws after midnight on Saturday.
by John Pudner8 Mar 2015, 7:35 AM PST0

Nearly 300 teams remain alive for 68 NCAA tournament spots.
by John Pudner6 Mar 2015, 7:30 AM PST0