I’ll preface this by saying, I like South Carolina Basketball Coach Frank Martin.  Me liking him has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he has taken South Carolina to the Final 4.  I liked him long before that for two reasons. First, he strikes me as just the type of complex personality that […]

It’s difficult to compare how conferences do in the NCAA Basketball Tournament, just as it to compare them in bowl games due to the match-ups those respective teams face, but it’s an annual conversation point particularly on talk radio.  And, there’s no question that for all its accolades, the ACC is getting hammered in this tournament.  […]

It’s that time of year again.  You know the time of year when you actually tune your television to TruTV.  Yes, the NCAA Tournament is underway with its First Four games in Dayton.  Tomorrow the entire thing gets going and by Sunday night the beauty that is 68 teams will be down to just 16. […]

There are 32 automatic bids to the NCAA Basketball Tournament.  Prior to this year, 31 of those went to champions of Conference Tournaments, with one bid going to the regular season champion of the Ivy League. That’s no longer the case.  The Ivy League stages its first-ever Conference Tournament this weekend at one of the cathedrals […]