The NCAA College Basketball Tournament is underway. Millions of people had hopes of raking in the cash with Yahoo! and Quicken Loans offering a $1 Billion reward for a perfect bracket. However, most of their hopes have been dashed, thanks in large part to two unlikely upsets. Los Angeles Lakers guard Kent Bazemore is all about it, having played for a mid-major school that made a Cinderella run of its own, stringing along unlikely upsets with Old Dominion from the Colonial Athletic
The Big East Tournament as we all know it is now gone. But the recent five-day basketball bender in New York City left behind many indelible impressions; including 64,248,336 #BigEast hashtag impressions on Twitter from Tuesday, March 12, through the close of Saturday, March 16. [Read more…]
The Cincinnati Bearcats will make their 27th appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Will 27 be the lucky charm for Cincy to make a Final Four run? Here are five facts you need to know about the Bearcats as we move toward March Madness: 1. Sean Kilpatrick (16.9 ppg), Cashmere Wright (12.6 ppg) and JaQuon Parker (11.3 ppg) are capable of going off in a big way if you don’t force them into difficult situations. They’re all solid scorers who can get hot
Unless you are accustomed to betting on collegiate basketball, you might not be familiar with the Cincinnati Bearcats from the University of Cincinnati, which now play in the Big East Conference since they moved from the Conference USA in 2005. [Read more…]