Category Archives: College Basketball Is My First Love

by | March 15, 2011 · 1:36 pm

I Don’t Know How I Feel About My Bracket

Thank you to CBS Sports for the Sucker Punch banner ad. That's exactly what I wanted on the top and bottom of my 2011 bracket. Sarcasm.

These are my Final Four: Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas and BYU, and I have no idea how that happened.

You see, my process for picking my Final Four teams is very scientific. I do the entire first round first, and go by the matchups. I then do the entire second round. Then the entire Sweet 16. Etc. I look at each matchup and determine who should win. I do not pick a favorite to win it all right off the bat, because everyone’s “Road to the Final Four” is very different. And somehow I get Notre Dame in the final game? I guess I just have to trust my predictions.

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by | March 7, 2011 · 7:17 pm

Clips with Coach: WILD WEEKEND IN COLLEGE HOOPS EQUALS WARM-UP FOR THINGS TO COME!

Intensity. It's March.

What was the wildest happening in Division I basketball this weekend?

Was it regular season MAAC champion Fairfield falling behind 40-15 at the half and eventually losing to fourth-seeded St. Peter’s? Was it Ohio State shooting a crazy 14-15 from three-point range and crushing Wisconsin, 93-65 (before the game, Buckeye players said they wanted to beat them by 50 to avenge their earlier loss)? Was it Jim Mower’s three-point basket with 0.5 seconds remaining in double-overtime to lift fifth-seeded Lafayette over second-seeded American, sending the Leopards into the Patriot League final against Bucknell? Was it fifth-seeded Stony Brook beating league champ Vermont by 22 in the American East? Was it West Virginia scoring 5 points in 9 seconds to beat Louisville? Was it lowly Iowa knocking off Purdue? Or, was it just how easy North Carolina took apart Duke?

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by | March 1, 2011 · 9:44 am

It’s March; Let the Madness Begin!

My Golden Tickets!

Fair warning: this blog is about to become all college basketball, all the time. It’s March 1st, and though the Madness has yet to officially begin, it will be here before you know it.

This is my Christmas. My Fourth of July. This is what New Year’s Eve would be like if it lasted a whole month. Can. Not. Wait.

There are still a few more games left before the conference tournaments start. There are even seven Top 25 teams playing tonight. But if the regular season was any indication of what the National Tournament has in store for us, I fully expect some major upsets. It could even be a year in which no number one seeds make it to the Final Four.

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