It’s going to be a very busy weekend, what with conference-tournament craziness all weekend, plus the St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday morning, a Great Big Sea concert Saturday evening, and of course, the Selection Show and the start of the 15th Annual Living Room Times NCAA Pools on Sunday. Meanwhile, Loyacita and Loyette are both a bit sick, so Becky’s… Read more »
This weekend, all of my tweets, links, etc., will appear in the ScribbleLive window below. This post will stay on top of the page. See below it for any other new content. There will be a Selection Show Live Chat here on Sunday, starting around 3:45 PM Mountain Time. Stay tuned! (For now, you can comment in the usual way,… Read more »
If “March Madness” hadn’t officially arrived yet, it definitely made its presence felt yesterday. ‘Twas a crazy day of hoops, capped off by a buzzer-beating bank-shot 3 for West Virginia, beating Cincinnati and ending the Bearcats’ longshot NCAA hopes: The day’s theme was bubble teams doing their damndest to play themselves out of the conversation, as SI’s Andy Glockner explains:… Read more »
With the exception of the green line in back, all of this was drawn by Loyette (using the Scribble app on my new iPod touch). She seems to think it’s pretty cool. 🙂 P.S. Can you believe all the bubble teams losing today? Crazy!
I’m typing & publishing this post on the WordPress app on my new iPod touch, which I got for free by signing up for a bank account with direct deposit. So happy. 🙂
Schlabach says there are currently six available bubble spots for the 17 teams he lists as having “work left to do,” namely, in no particular order: Georgia Tech, Seton Hall, South Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Washington, Arizona State, Florida, Mississippi, Mississippi State, San Diego State, Rhode Island, Dayton, Saint Louis, Utah State, UAB and Memphis. (Notre Dame, Cal and UNLV are… Read more »
After breaking their own NCAA record with consecutive win #71 by — ho-hum — beating the #6 team in the country by 15 points*, the Huskies have just seven games left on their road to 78 straight and another national title. Then comes the real drama, maybe: can Geno beat John? Auriemma > Wooden? The Sorcerer of Storrs bests the… Read more »
As regular readers know, I’ve got three primary college basketball rooting interests: my alma maters, USC and Notre Dame, and the team I’ve randomly followed since just before they became a household name, Gonzaga. There’s also team number four, the UConn Huskies, who I grew up rooting for, but who I now only casually follow, at best. But there are… Read more »
NBC’s Chuck Todd: “There’s no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something’s a story because Drudge links to it.” I know about this interview with Chuck Todd because… Drudge linked to it.
The latest bubble update from Mike Scullin’s NIT-ology is instructive, both for thinking about this year’s NCAA Tournament, and for thinking about how an expanded, 96-team field would change the nature of the discussions that we have at this time of year. With respect to the current state of the NCAA bubble, Scullin writes: I’m sure this is a common… Read more »
