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Sweet 16 breakdowns and predictions: Is an Iowa-LSU rematch in store for the Elite Eight?

[ad_1] The Sweet 16 field is set — mostly as we expected it but with some twists. The left side of the bracket (Albany 1 and Portland 4 regions) includes every No. 1 through No. 4 seed, while the right side (Albany 2 and Portland 3 regions) low seeds include a No. 5 and a…

‘I don’t know if we expected this’: Duke looks the part in blowout of James Madison

[ad_1] BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Jon Scheyer knows better than most the pressure that comes with wearing a Duke uniform. The highs feel a little higher, the lights brighter than they’d be for most. “And when things aren’t going as well, you can feel like you’re a lot worse than what you really are,” said the…

Dandy dozen: The 12 teams that can win the men’s NCAA Tournament

[ad_1] We don’t have many rules of thumb —what with only four total thumbs between us — for picking an NCAA Tournament bracket. But there’s one we believe in wholeheartedly: Don’t overthink it. To that end, there’s something simple to keep in mind (yet again) when choosing your Final Four and national champion. After Connecticut…

The Joker Effect: Playmaking centers have revolutionized college basketball offenses

[ad_1] When Fred Hoiberg left a front-office job with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2010 to coach Iowa State, he was ahead of his time chasing transfers to build a roster. Hoiberg was also ahead of the curve when he landed his biggest transfer prize: Royce White. White was built like an NFL tight end —…

Women’s March Madness bracket prep: Strengths, weaknesses for all 68 teams, outlooks and more

[ad_1] After five months of regular-season and conference tournament action, we have finally reached the best stretch of the year. It’s March Madness, and it’s setting up to be yet another eventful NCAA Tournament. At 32-0, South Carolina seems like the easy pick to make it to the championship game, but we thought that last…

Thirty years ago, Chris Farley and college basketball collided in an unforgettable way

[ad_1] Thirty years later, Christian Laettner isn’t sure he knew it was coming. In 1994, he was in the NBA, his second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Maybe someone had informed his agent but he doesn’t think so. The former Duke star just one day remembers seeing the commercial on ESPN. Chris Farley, then at…

How should broadcasts handle court-storming?

[ad_1] Throughout a three-decade career as a prominent ESPN play-by-play broadcaster, Dave Pasch says he has been on the mic for two college basketball games that ended in a court-storming. One occurred earlier this month as unranked LSU upset Kentucky as time expired at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La. Pasch recalled…

Should court-storming be banned — or at least made safer? ‘It’s a tough challenge’

[ad_1] By Brendan Marks, Dana O’Neil and Nicole Auerbach The floodgates burst before the final buzzer sounded. Although, given the record crowd inside Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, maybe that shouldn’t have been a surprise. Nearly 15,000 Wake Forest fans had crammed into the building to watch their team take on No. 8…

Cooper Flagg and the small New England town that raised basketball’s brightest young star

[ad_1] NEWPORT, Maine — In the calm moments — the few there are — snow slithers sideways across the northbound lanes of I-95. It’s almost graceful how the flurries snake right to left, passengers on every random gust of wind. Almost. But then the gusts become punches, pummeling and whipping the sides of this poor…