college basketball

Ok, I’ll come clean: I’m a message board junkie. And few are more entertaining than the one for the University of Kentucky, named aptly Cats Pause. You see, UK fans have had a tough year. After a mediocre start, the team finished 12-4 in the SEC and squeaked into the tournament. Suddenly, Lexington started romancing […]

One of the joys the NCAA tournament game is hearing Gus Johnson to do the play-by-play. Jim Allen and I don’t call him “The Screamer” for nothing: [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=sgeqrYxu_YM] One of the joys the NCAA tournament game is hearing Gus Johnson to do the play-by-play. Jim Allen and I don’t call him “The Screamer” for nothing: […]

Basketball is a terrific, fast-paced, up-and-down-the-court game … until the final minute. Then it degenerates into a flurry of timeouts that turn mercury into molasses. Duke beat No. 15-seed Belmont ($5 to anyone who knows what state it’s in without looking it up), 71-70, but the last minute seemed like it lasted an hour. Possession, […]

(Editor’s note: Sean Jackson wrote our preseason men’s college basketball preview in which he picked UCLA to win it all. Having watched the entire season unfold, he is back with his tournament preview): So what have we learned this season? Just a few things. – Turn your phone to vibrate if you know Kelvin Sampson […]

The bracket to your right is my best guess for this year’s NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. The operative word here is “guess.” For the record, my Final Four are UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas and Pittsburgh, with UNC beating UCLA. You can clearly do better. Sign up here and play for free. We will give […]

Why does ESPN even have “experts” picking to talk about the NCAA tournament? Their insight is no better (actually, it’s worse) than simply looking at the seedings. Last year, we heard “look out for Long Beach State,” which got dismantled by Tennessee in the first round. This year, ESPN had five “experts” pick their Elite […]