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Connecticut, Louisville Win, Will Meet In Women's NCAA Title Game

Joe Student — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:06:50 +0000

Connecticut and Louisville each won national semifinals in New Orleans on Sunday night to advance to the 2013 NCAA women’s national championship on Tuesday. Connecticut 83, Notre Dame 65 Breanna Stewart scored a career-high 29 points, and Connecticut beat Notre Dame, 83-65, in the 2013 NCAA women’s Final Four in New Orleans on Sunday night. [...]

Buzzer Beaters: NCAA 'First Four' Begins, Heat Streak Continues and More

Chris Chaberski — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:46:54 +0000

Todays’ top sports stories: The “First Four” games in this year’s NCAA Tournament begin tonight, with North Carolina A&T facing Liberty for the 16 seed and St. Mary’s vs. Middle Tennessee for the 11 seed. Both games are part of the Midwest regional. [Washington Post] The Miami Heat ran their second-best-ever winning streak to 23 [...]

Which NCAA Team Got the Biggest Snub? — Sports Survey of the Day

Chris Chaberski — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:19:16 +0000

March Madness begins on Tuesday, with the four play-in games, then starts for real on Thursday. But on Sunday, we finally got a look at the brackets for the first time—and a few teams are feeling left out, forgotten or just plain insulted. Pac-12 Tournament champion Oregon received a 12 seed, the kind of seed [...]

2013 NCAA Tournament Report — Creighton Among 5 Teams To Win Automatic Bids

Joe Student — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:15:04 +0000

Creighton, Liberty and Harvard were among the first five teams to qualify for the 2013 NCAA men’s basketball tournament via automatic bids they received for winning their conference championships this weekend. Here’s a recap of the conference championships: Sunday, March 10 Missouri Valley Conference Championship: Creighton 68 — Wichita State 65 Jahenns Manigat scored 16 [...]

NCAA Basketball Awards 2013: 5 Candidates For National Player of the Year

Joe Student — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:01:05 +0000

As teams complete their regular seasons with hopes of being selected to the 68-team NCAA tournament field, national player of the year candidates are polishing their resumes for consideration. Unlike players from the teams on the bubble for the NCAA tournament, fans can be sure they'll see all of the following candidates in the 2013 tourney:

Who's the Best Team in NCAA Men's Hoops? — Sports Survey of the Day

Chris Chaberski — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:29:14 +0000

Gonzaga University—for a long time everyone’s favorite Cinderella pick in the NCAA Tournament—took over the national number one ranking in the Associated Press poll on Monday, making it the fifth team to do so this year. But are they really the best team out there? With a comparably tiny enrollment of just 7,600, the Zags [...]

New Adidas NCAA Uniforms May Ruin Your Tournament Viewing Experience

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:49:11 +0000

Do not adjust your TV sets when watching the NCAA Tournament — the colors are supposed to look like that. Just in time for the 2013 NCAA Tournament, Adidas has unveiled new uniforms for Cincinnati, Kansas, Notre Dame, Baylor, UCLA and Louisville. The verdict? Put on your sunglasses because, man, these threads are brighter than [...]

8 Teams on the Bubble of the 2013 NCAA Basketball Tournament

Joe Student — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:46:42 +0000

The ‘March Madness’ of the 2013 NCAA men’s basketball tournament begins with the play-in games on Tuesday, March 19. With no truly dominant team in the NCAA this season, a spot in the 68-team tournament field will allow the selected schools an even better chance at the national championship. While powers like Duke, Indiana and [...]

5 College Football Scandals That Rocked the NCAA

Phil Richardson — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:05:44 +0000

For a long stretch of time it felt as though every few years an NCAA university football program was caught abusing the rules and manipulating the system. These days it seems that not a single month goes by without hearing allegations of cheating by a major national football power. The latest instance has the NCAA [...]

Will Indiana Win the NCAA Basketball Title? — Sports Survey of the Day

BJ Ragone — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:54:16 +0000

We are getting very, very close to all that March Madness we all love so much. So is Indiana going to win it all? The NCAA Tournament is highly unpredictable, and big upsets always happen. Right now, the Indiana Hoosiers are playing some great basketball and sit atop the polls. Their latest win came against [...]

New NCAA Football Rules: What Exactly is Being Proposed?

Phil Richardson — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:16:57 +0000

It's the off-season for NCAA football - you know, that minute of time between National Signing Day and Spring Training - whereby the NCAA rules committee comes together for their annual meeting of the minds to determine if any changes to the existing rules should be made. With all of the media reports concerning player safety in mind, the committee has released 10 proposed changes for the 2013-14 season:

College Football 2012 — Week 12 Preview

Wes Glinsmann — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:40:22 +0000

We’re down to the home stretch of the regular season, with most teams having just two games remaining. There aren't many big games this week, with only two top 25 matchups and five ranked SEC schools dropping down to play FCS teams. But there is still some action this week that could shake up conference-title races. #1 Oregon faces a ranked team and #2 Kansas State hits the road against one of the nation’s top offenses. Hey, after last week, anything’s possible.

Here is what to watch for this week in the top 25:

College Football 2012 – Week 11 Recap

Wes Glinsmann — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:37:00 +0000

Now things are getting interesting.

Texas A&M threw college football for a loop, pulling off the biggest upset of the season and, at least for the time being, knocking the SEC out of the national title picture. But that was far from the only excitement this week in college football.

Here is all the action from around the Top 25.

College Football 2012 — Week 11 Preview

Wes Glinsmann — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:29:41 +0000

We’re getting down to crunch time in the college football season. Several top teams are trying to wrap up their respective divisions or keep their title hopes alive while others are just struggling to hold on to bowl eligibility. There are several interesting games this week: only three matchups between ranked teams, but 11 ranked teams have tough road trips.

Here is what to watch for this week in college football:

College Football 2012 – Week 10 Recap

Wes Glinsmann — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:46:05 +0000

It was another crazy weekend in college football with Alabama and Notre Dame needing last minute rallies to survive, Oregon and USC giving us a PAC-12 shootout for the ages and the Heisman frontrunner leaving with an injury.

Here are all the highlights from an exciting weekend in the Top 25.

College Football 2012 — Week 10 Preview

Wes Glinsmann — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:57:56 +0000

Last week's showdowns knocked several teams from the ranks of the unbeaten and shook up the rankings. This week, we get two of the biggest games of the season, with Alabama-LSU and Oregon-USC setting the stage for conference- and national-championship runs.

But the excitement doesn't stop there. Here is what to watch for around the top 25:

College Football 2012 – Week Nine Recap

Wes Glinsmann — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 07:21:18 +0000

This week’s rankings will look very different when the new AP Poll comes out following a Saturday full of upsets. Four Top Ten teams fell this week and five ranked teams suffered their first losses of the season. Meanwhile, Collin Klein and Manti T’eo boosted their Heisman chances while Alabama, Oregon, Kansas State and Notre Dame continued to make their case for a shot in the national title game.

Here are all highlights from a wild week in college football.

College Football 2012 – Week Eight Recap

Wes Glinsmann — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:30:50 +0000

It was another exciting week in college football with some big games in the SEC, wild shootouts in the Big 12, record-setting performances in the PAC-12, some close calls for ranked teams and Collin Klein showing us why he’s now very much in the Heisman mix.

Here are all the highlights from this week in the Top 25.

College Football 2012 — Week Eight Preview

Wes Glinsmann — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:25:30 +0000

For most teams, we’ve reached the halfway point of the regular season and the conference title races are starting to take shape. Last week gave us exciting finishes and monster upsets, and we’ve got another good slate of games this week with three big games between ranked teams and 11 ranked teams playing on the road.

Here is what to watch for this week in college football:

NCAA Pulling Championships Out of New Jersey Over Gambling

Wes Glinsmann — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:25:48 +0000

The NCAA announced Monday that it would move its future championship events out of New Jersey after the state adopted new rules to allow gambling on sporting events. The move will impact these events scheduled for next year: a Division I women’s basketball regional in Trenton the Division I men’s and women’s diving championship [...]