Selection Sunday – Ohio St (37 of 50 points) Bid Status: In the tournament. Perhaps the hottest team in the nation coming into Sunday’s Big Ten championship, moving from 13th to sixth in www.kenpom.com in less than a month. With
Selection Sunday – Providence (17 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them as a long shot, ranked 13 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN and Palm/CBS give them no chance. As great as Bryce Cotton is, Providence fell badly at
Selection Sunday – Southern Mississippi (21 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them just missing,ranked 12 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN has them where we do – four spots OUT, while Palm/CBS says they are not even that close.
Selection Sunday – St. Mary’s (23 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them solidly in, ranked 4 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN has them strongly in as an 11-seed, and Palm/CBS has them a little weaker than as as
Selection Sunday – Temple (18 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them in on a close call, ranked 5 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN and Palm/CBS both are even stronger on them – both saying 10-seeds. Temple is one of the hottest teams, improving
Selection Sunday – Tennessee (18 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them just missing,ranked 10 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN has them one spot behind us as the third team OUT, while Palm/CBS has them next to last team
Below is an alphabetical list of the 78 teams who will be listening for their names to be called on the NCAA Selection Sunday show at 6 p.m. ET. We included any team that was listed as a tournament lock
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Five more teams were eliminated Tuesday, but stat geeks around the country celebrated when their hero Nate Wolters was not one of them. The ultimate stat guru, Luke Winn of Sports Illustrated, accounted the NBA Scouts asking him if Wolters
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The NCAA men’s college basketball tournament–known as “March Madness”–is the most lucrative postseason tournament in all of sports when it comes to advertising revenue, surpassing even the NFL and college football’s BCS bowl games. According to AdWeek, a new report
ESPN college basketball commentator Dick Vitale thinks college basketball players should get paid. “My feeling is with the millions that are being made by the schools and the billions for television rights, I definitely think the kids should get paid
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What can President Barack Obama possibly have in common with Charlotte Bobcats owner and NBA legend Michael Jordan, UFC President Dana White, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, NASCAR Chair Brian France, PGA President Tim Finchem, Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive,
(AP) Thunder hold off Smith, Knicks as Anthony sitsBy BRIAN MAHONEYAP Basketball WriterNEW YORK The Kevin Durant-Carmelo Anthony duel was postponed, though J.R. Smith filled in nicely – for three quarters. The Oklahoma City Thunder finally silenced the Knicks’ streaky
Measuring 5’3″, Tyrone ‘Muggsy’ Bogues (pictured with Michael Jordan) is the shortest NBA player of all time. At 4’5″, Julian “Handles” Newman is perhaps not only the shortest high school basketball player in the country, but also the youngest. This dual
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
On Monday, Obama press secretary Jay Carney ripped into the North Korean dictatorship for inviting former NBA star Dennis Rodman for a visit. “Instead of spending money on celebrity sporting events to entertain the elites of that country,” said Carney,
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
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