Sports Illustrated posted a series of articles on the proposed expansion of the NCAA tournament to 96 teams. First, Stewart Mandel explains that expansion — for better or worse — is imminent.
Second, George Dohrmann offers four (just four?) reasons why expansion is a terrible idea.
Finally, Billy Donovan asserts his case for tournament expansion.
While Dohrmann’s article [...]
Several months ago, I posted a diatribe about Ole Miss and its frustration with students chanting “The South Will Rise Again”, and I suggested their continued use of the team name “Rebels” and their mascot “Colonel Reb” may be the sort of thing to embolden negative student behavior (I have since learned that Colonel Reb, [...]
While EA Sports has already announced that it will be ending its NCAA Basketball franchise after this season (because video game players didn’t understand why they had to play a regular season…zing!), the game manufacturer and the NCAA will likely continue to suffer for the annual college sports video games they have put out over the [...]
For those monitoring the business side of college basketball, this article provides a good overview of the machinations underway between the NCAA and CBS. In a nutshell, the NCAA can opt out of its contract with CBS at the end of this year and is hinting that they may take the NCAA tournament to cable [...]
Same and Different game of the week!
Purdue at Indiana, 3:30 pm
Different: Purdue is not the upper-tier of the Big Ten in football. In fact, even with a win, Purdue will not be bowl eligible this year. But Purdue is still a dangerous out. The only Big Ten team to defeat both Michigan and Ohio State [...]
Harrison Barnes commits to UNC. The Ames, Iowa guard eschews Iowa State as everyone except Larry Eustachy’s old drinking buddies expected.
Here we go again. Time to run-down of a few of the weekend’s football games and explain how they are the same and different from basketball. This week there are some suspiciously basketball sounding matchups: Syracuse v. Louisville; Notre Dame v. Pitt; Arizona v. Cal. However the snark train is still waiting at the station [...]
Here we go again. Time to run-down of a few of the weekend’s football games and explain how they are the same and different from basketball.
Louisville v. West Virginia, 12 PM
Same: Formerly scorching and exciting offense that no longer clicks after the head coach left for Michigan — check.
Different: West Virginia fans don’t express an [...]
This is currently a football phenomenon, but we can expect it to spill into the basketball season so I thought I’d drop a line about it here. Apparently the student body of Ole Miss has decided that it is stunningly clever to append “the South will rise again” to the end of a gameday chant.
The [...]
As the “Ambassador to the BCS” (or whatever official title I was given as the football guy) I am introducing a new run-down of a few of the weekend’s football games with an eye toward helping those of you who care more about basketball embrace the storylines of the pigskin matchups by providing explanations of [...]
