March Madness is just around the corner, with one of the biggest sporting competitions of the year getting underway on March 14. Aside from showcasing some of the top basketball prospects, March Madness is exciting because of how many upsets there are. Each year, the underdogs manage to surprise people and beat the higher-seeded teams, […]
I cried minutes after my college graduation ceremony. Mostly because I feared the future, figuring out what to do with my life. I didn’t know what that was. I cried the day I got cut from my college baseball team. I had never been cut from any team before. That “you’re not good enough” thunderbolt […]
With the regular season and conference tournament behind us, it is now on to the reason why these players play this game. A chance to say they were a part of the Big Dance. For the America East Conference, they will be represented by the Vermont Catamounts (28-5 overall, 17-1 in AE). They won on […]
Bill Walton sets up his easel in the front of the out-of-the-way hotel meeting room in the Indianapolis Inn. It’s in this hotel where his UCLA Bruins are staying before tonight’s Final Four game against undefeated Gonzaga. He sets a 10-foot-by-10-foot chart on the easel showing John Wooden’s “Pyramid of Success” image that has sold […]
After a season that saw teams across the nation play, postpone, or cancel games, March Madness got underway in Indianapolis. The first game was the Tigers of Texas Southern, SWAC Champions, versus Mount St. Mary’s, champions of the Northeast Conference. The NCAA tournament was now underway with all 68 teams knowing they were now in […]
Once again, the ACC will be well represented when the NCAA Tournament gets underway this Thursday. Seven league members saw their name in lights when the field was announced on Sunday night. It marks the fifth straight year and seventh overall that the conference has had that many in the field. While some may have […]
The Selection Committee was very good to the ACC, as three teams were awarded No. 1 seeds: Duke, North Carolina, and Virginia. Before this season, that had only happened once in Tournament history, when the old Big East took three of the four No. 1’s in 2009. Duke also earned the No. 1 overall seed […]