Posted by Mike Foster on March-17-2010 Add Comments

March Really Is Madness: Should NCAA Divide College Basketball In Half?

Last night featured the "opening game", or play-in game, for the NCAA tournament. Arkansas-Pine Bluff, at 17-15, faced off against 19-13 Winthrop. The two teams, who come from the SWAC and Big South Conference respectively, immediately showed off their lack of championship potential thanks to a sedative opening few minutes. I tuned into the game, and within 10 minutes tuned out of it. Then came Mississippi State vs. Jacksonville State, and North Carolina vs. William and ...
Posted by Jay Hendry on March-17-2010 Add Comments

Florida Gators Writers Struggling to Find Stories During Slow Week

The Florida Gators are one of the NCAA's most successful collegiate sports teams. They have multiple titles in multiple sports and are generally regarded as an elite program. The rabid fanbase, ever seeking the next tidbit of Gators news, created an entire segment of journalism devoted solely to covering Gators sports. Unfortunately for all of those writers, this has not been a good week. Like, literally nothing has happened. In response to the borefest, and seeking to not lose ...
Posted by Bret Feddern on March-17-2010 Add Comments

Todd Lickliter Fired: 11 Candidates Who Could Replace Him as Iowa Head Coach

For the second time in a little over three years, the University of Iowa is looking for a new head basketball coach. The Lickliter era has come to an end, and it will be remembered by most Hawkeye fans as the worst stretch of basketball in the history of the university. The 22-loss total was the worst ever recorded by the men's basketball program, as was Lickliter's overall win percentage while at Iowa (.396) Hours after ...
Posted by Michael Huckstep on March-17-2010 Add Comments

Projecting the Top 20 College Football Rushing Attacks for 2010

As the game of football has evolved, more teams have shied away from the traditional ground game and have concentrated on developing pass-oriented offenses. However, old-school fans (this writer included) still enjoy a relentless, smash-mouth running attack. In this slideshow, we will take a look at 20 teams whose rushing offenses should be among the best in the coming season. If you think that rankings like this can be silly and subjective, you're not alone. Often times they ...
Posted by Marlin Terry on March-17-2010 Add Comments

Running of the Horns: Texas Looks To Hit the Ground Running in 2010

You’re coming off back-to-back 13-1 seasons, in which most of your fans believe that you were a healthy quarterback and a tick-of-the-clock shy of two national championships.  Your record setting, two-time Heisman finalist quarterback is leaving the 40 acres.  And in the upcoming season, you’ll be breaking in a new quarterback for the first time since 2006. But if you are Mack Brown, you aren’t answering the what-ifs of past seasons, or questions about your new ...
Posted by Garrett Tucker on March-17-2010 Add Comments

March Madness 2010: 50 Predictions for the Tournament

Now's the time of year we hear all this talk from analysts and fans alike trying to preview the college basketball at its most intriguing point: March Madness. Thousands of people around the world are predicting their brackets for a chance to win the big bucks or the new 2011 car; right now as you read this someone is pondering on who they should advance in their bracket. And whenever they decide, it's a prediction. So, with ...
Posted by Todd Williams on March-17-2010 Add Comments

Washington Huskies 2011 Recruiting Part One: QBs and RBs

Successful coaches know the key to maintaining a top program is through recruiting. Coach Sarkisian learned this lesson well watching his mentor Pete Carroll awaken the echoes of a powerhouse in Los Angeles. Sarkisian’s first recruiting class at Washington was considered small, and average. With previous coach Tyrone Willingham giving up on recruiting, knowing he wasn’t going to be back, Sarkisian had to work to ...
Posted by Chris Benz on March-17-2010 Add Comments

Oregon’s Suspension of Jeremiah Masoli: How Do We Move Forward?

This has been an extremely rough offseason for the Oregon Ducks to say the least. There have been enough arrests for the men in green to fill a county drunk tank. The worst of all is Jeremiah Masoli's 2010 season-long suspension. So now the question is what will, and should, happen to his career at Oregon? Many have been saying that he should just transfer and forever leave the state of Oregon in order not to ...
Posted by J.T. Axelrod on March-17-2010 Add Comments

2010 NCAA Tournament: Why Purdue Could Be the Latest Example of the Ewing Theory

In 2001, ESPN columnist Bill Simmons debuted the "Ewing Theory." In order to achieve this "Ewing status," the situation must include two main elements: "1. A star athlete receives an inordinate amount of media attention and fan interest, and yet his teams never win anything substantial with him (other than maybe some early-round playoff series). "2. That same athlete leaves his team (either by injury, trade, graduation, free agency or retirement)—and both the media and ...
Posted by Jeff Pencek on March-17-2010 Add Comments

34 Tips for the Ultimate NCAA Tournament Bracket

Initially, this article was to be 65 tips, but luckily Winthrop does not matter, so less work for me. Thank you play-in game. Then, I realized that combining 64 rules could be successfully done well after brackets are done. So instead, here are 34 tidbits of betting fun. I'm doing 34 tips as a Corliss Williamson tribute to the 1994 bracket that started all of my crazy analysis patterns. Filling out the perfect bracket is almost impossible, but ...