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 [...]

What a game of identity – Michigan State had four starters from Michigan, one from Ohio, while North Carolina didn’t have a player from in-state or near it in the starting lineup. Tom Izzo is well-identified as Michigan State’s coach; Roy Williams, as much as we try, still feels like Kansas’s coach on the wrong sideline.
Identity is [...]

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 [...]

I’m watching the NCAA Tournament Selection Show and listening to Mike Slive (selection committee chairman and Southeastern Conference commissioner) dance around the dwindling number of non-power conference at-large bids handed out is disgusting.  Only four such bids were given out this year; considering that Arizona made it in, San Diego State, Creighton and particularly Saint [...]

Editor’s Note: Another FierceAndNerdy.com cross-post.
March Madness is finally here!
What’s that, say you? It’s not March Madness yet! There are no brackets, no upsets, no buzzer-beaters.
Ah, but there are. Conference Tournament Week is here. And each year, the conference tournaments expand more and more both in excitement and importance, having reached that [...]

We have our first highly-ranked college basketball team casualty of the season, and it’s #4 UCLA. The Bruins were defeated by unranked Michigan last night by a score of 55-52.
UCLA may be the first this year, but it seems like top teams go down earlier and earlier every year.  Why is this?  I think [...]