The Butler Bulldogs are no Final Four Cinderella. Here is a breakdown of just how they became a true mid-major basketball powerhouse.
How Have the Butler Bulldogs Built Themselves into a Final Four Team?
A few days ago, when addressing the Butler Bulldogs’ march to the Final Four, we analyzed what were the necessary steps for [...]

First there was Gonzaga; now Butler. What do other mid-major basketball programs have to do to follow in their shoes and build a nationally ranked program year-in, year-out?
Building a Successful Mid-Major Basketball Program
For the second time in five years, a true mid-major has made it to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament’s Final Four. [...]

March Madness is living up to its billing in the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Oh, What a Sweet Sixteen It Is!
Sweet Sixteen, indeed!
After serving up one of the most exciting opening weekends in years, who else can’t wait to see what the 2010 NCAA Tournament dishes out for an encore?
Three double-digit (and four lower-half of [...]

It’s not baseball season yet.
An item in the current issue of Sports Illustrated begs for a second-look at the subject of college basketball.
In an essay about his book When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball, Seth Davis, also a featured commentator on CBS’ college basketball coverage during the season and the tournament, writes [...]

Editor’s Note: A new FierceAndNerdy.com cross-post.
With Gary’s analysis (Part 1 & Part 2) of who is the greatest all-time golfer, Tiger or Jack, on my mind and with both the men’s and women’s college basketball championships having just been decided, I figured I’d raise the question: which is the greatest NCAA women’s basketball team of [...]

It’s official, is there a sports team in the country that puts their fans through more tribulation than the Gonzaga University basketball team?
Gonzaga fans felt their loyalty tested again with another embarrassing exit from the NCAA tournament, in the latest instance in a history of high-profile losses featuring undisciplined play.
Gonzaga’s Friday night matchup against North [...]

BREAKING THE RACKET–I MEAN BRACKET—NO! I MEAN WHAT A RACKET!
I was so depressed at my dismal showing in my first round bracket; I decided to wait until Sweet Sixteen weekend to write a follow-up column.
Recovering nicely, I bracketed 14 of the Sweet 16. For my Elite Eight, I have Pitt, Villanova, North [...]

Anyone recall what I said a month ago about Villanova and Big East Dominance? Sheesh! The ACC is supposed to be the second-best conference and the Wildcats manhandled the Blue Devils. When I wrote that article in February, ‘Nova was dominating Syracuse, but in the last month the Orange have become dramatically [...]

You’re probably thinking, “Wow, this site was suprisingly quiet during the first two rounds of the tournament.”
And you’d be right.  We were.
One reason is that I’ve been making some updates to the design, organization and features of the site.  Some subtle, some slightly larger.  It’s tough to write and design at the same time.
The second [...]

Last year, a hot chick I know won 1500.00 in her NCAA Basketball tournament office pool. Guys who lost in earlier rounds were more pissed than a Fenway Park urinal. Their anger didn’t stem from her gender—although that did rankle their ego—but from her methodology, which went something like this:
“Bruins? I love [...]