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 […]

As we say goodbye to February, and hello to March, with all due respect to those of you who believe that things other than tournament basketball are the best sporting events, to me it’s Christmas time because in my humble little opinion there is nothing like tournament basketball.  That applies to all levels from the […]

In less than 40 years, the Big East Conference has had a profound impact in allowing certain universities to achieve athletic success that frankly seemed out of reach. The greatest example of that is Virginia Tech and now there are three largely forgotten basketball schools that are reaping the same benefits. The Big East was formed […]

Last night the Connecticut Women’s Basketball team set an NCAA Record that will likely never be matched, must less exceeded and they aren’t finished yet.  With a  win over South Carolina at home in Storrs, Connecticut the U-Conn Lady Huskies won their 100th straight game.  Their last loss was in November of 2014 at Stanford.  Since […]

One thing stands true about College Basketball.  It just never disappoints.  One thing struck me when watching  Virginia and Villanova (the team many pundits point to as the best in the country) last weekend, that this was a late January NCAA Tournament type game.   Same with Kansas and Kentucky.  Big win for the Jayhawks, only […]

In the history of the NCAA Basketball Tournament (which remains in my opinion the year’s greatest sporting event), only 5 schools have never heard their name called on Selection Sunday.  Virginia’s William and Mary, Army, St. Francis of Pennsylvania, The Citadel, and Northwestern. Northwestern is the only Power 5 school on that dubious list, but […]

We are in the midst of Winter, although you couldn’t tell it where I live.  The temperature has been in the 70s for about a week and a half and the grass is actually getting green in places.  Hey, give me an excuse to get out the John Deere. While we will likely pay the […]