Tag: NCAA basketball
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Tony Romo Made Super Bowl Deal With Jahlil Okafor
What on earth did the Duke Blue Devil’s do when they won the NCAA national title? Aside from party it up, they invoked the first piece in an oral agreement between team star Jahlil Okafor...
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March Madness: Bracketology Update
Well friends, we've made it. It's Selection Sunday, and that means my most recent Bracketology projections below have a more limited shelf life than ever before. At 6 pm today the field of 68 teams...
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Christian Laettner Explains Why Duke Gets so Much Love From the Refs
Image courtesy of James DiBianco/Flickr. Former Duke Blue Devils star Christian Laettner is the focus of an upcoming ESPN 30 for 30 about his basketball career and how much fans loved to hate him when...
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Kentucky Wildcats Continue to Pursue Perfection
Image courtesy of U.S. Army National Guard/Staff Sgt. Scott Raymond/Flickr . The Kentucky Wildcats’ pursuit of 40-0 continues after a late-game comeback at Georgia’s Stegeman Coliseum, where they won 72-64. The Wildcats found themselves behind...
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WATCH: Remembering Hank Gathers
Screen capture courtesy of CBS . Twenty-five years ago today, the basketball world watched one of their own die on the court. Standing at 6'8, Philadelphia native, Hank Gathers, lost his life due to a...
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Surprise, surprise: Kentucky Wildcats' freshmen come through again
Image courtesy of Tach_RedGold&Green/Flickr . When does perception overtake reality and become the truth? After defeating a popular underdog pick in the opening round? After knocking off the top seed in the region? How about...
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College basketball mirrors NBA market disparities
Image courtesy of Phil Denton/Flickr . When the NCAA tournament bracket is first released, most fans turn on their laptops or desktop computers or whatever their preferred medium is for viewing online content and they...
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NCAA Tournament: South Region Preview
(1) Florida Gators vs. (16) Albany Great Danes Florida, the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament, comes in off a nail-biting win over the Kentucky Wildcats in the SEC tournament final. The Gators...
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NCAA Tournament: Midwest Region Preview
March is here, which means everyone from Andy Katz to your grandma has filled out an NCAA tournament bracket. Someone might even win $1 billion doing so. (It'll probably be someone's grandma if it happens,...
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NCAA Tournament: West Regional Preview
If you’re a follower of international politics, this week you may have heard Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkoy dismiss U.S. sanctions and praise legendary West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur in the same sentence. Only the...
