Harvard clinched the Ivy League title on Saturday with its win over Cornell and Princeton’s surprising loss to Brown. The Crimson will be making back-to-back NCAA appearances for the first time ever. You may have noticed that people who attend Harvard are generally pretty bright. I’m not really sure why, but it just seems to work out that way. But there are many other interesting things to know about the school in Cambridge, Mass. Here are five things you probably didn’t
Belmont punched its ticket to the Big Dance by outlasting Murray State in an overtime classic in the Ohio Valley championship game on Saturday night. Bruins guard Kerron Johnson hit two clutch jumpers from the free throw line–one at the end of regulation and one in overtime–to lift Belmont to the title and back into the NCAAs for the third consecutive year. Belmont (26-6) will likely be seeded somewhere in the 10-12 range. Here are five things you probably didn’t know
It’s a dark, snowy Tuesday night in Hamden, Connecticut, the kind that last all basketball season in the Northeast. John W. Adams is sitting by himself in the last row at the TD Bank SportsCenter, preparing to take in yet another game in the long stretch of games that make up his life each winter. Over the next five months, the NCAA’s head of men’s basketball officials will traverse the country, going from city to city, small gym to huge arena, to
Who has time for the NBA during the NCAA Tournament? We do. And on Friday night, you should have made time, too. From John Rohde of the Daily Oklahoman: “Inside one locker room sat a player who had just set a single-game franchise record for points scored, while four chairs away sat a teammate who had collected his first career triple-double with 25 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds. And this was on the losing team. Inside the victorious locker room across
You hear the phrase all the time when you watch coaches get stopped by sideline reporters before heading into the locker room. It’s a conversation that usually goes like this. Reporter: “Coach what adjustments are you going to make at halftime.” Coach’s response: “We just aren’t making shots” or “we have to take away their space, they’re just making shots.” Shot makers come in all shapes and sizes, but there are those who are put on the floor to make them. That’s their
March Madness resumes Thursday and Friday with a Sweet 16 that features all four No. 1 seeds, four teams from Ohio (representing four different conferences), four from the Big East and four from the Big 10. The remaining teams are led by a Who’s Who of big-time college coaches, including Kentucky’s John Calipari, Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, Louisville’s Rick Pitino, North Carolina’s Roy Williams, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, Kansas’s Bill Self and Florida’s Billy Donovan. Calipari is the only man on that list not to have
Hot lingo among the internet world when discussing a player similar to one from years past is to refer to said player as “so-and-so 2.0.” It is a tech term for an upgrade. Well, Draymond Green of Michigan State seems to be Anthony Mason 2.0. Green is not left-handed, and it took a long time before Mason became a trusted jump shooter. But Green is an excellent combination of size and skill. He possesses the rare combination of post-up ability at the
Few players in the nation have baffled me more than Patric Young. Here’s a guy who plays his best against the best, then can completely disappear while having the ball completely ignore him on both ends. Coming out of the first half against a Kentucky team that could challenge some NBA teams, Young perfectly sealed UK’s wonderbig Anthony Davis then perfectly fed a cutting teammate for a layup. Beautiful drop step followed by an even better delivery to get an easy