Ohio State entered the season as one of the true national championship favorites. The Buckeyes had the best returning big man along with a well-rounded and talented roster.Tonight, as a disappointing No. 2 seed, Ohio State went into battle with No. 1 seed Syracuse with a Final Four appearance on the line.Ohio State had lofty expectations from the start. Syracuse seemed the team to beat for a large chunk of the season.Both teams ultimately stumbled ...

One half of the Final Four is officially set, as Louisville and Ohio State punched their tickets to New Orleans on Saturday.The Cardinals used a thrilling second-half surge to send Florida packing, while the Buckeyes upended Syracuse thanks to a strong effort from Jared Sullinger.It was a great day of action and all four teams played hard. Unfortunately, this isn't elementary school. There were some clear-cut winners and losers, and not everyone got to go ...

Despite the in-game heroics of Christian Watford, who scored a season high 27 points, Indiana's Cinderella season came to end Friday night at the unshakable hands of John Calipari's Kentucky Wildcats. The game, which was easily the highest scoring of the NCAA tournament so far, also set the record for most points given up by a Hoosiers team in the program's tournament history. But the real story was not that IU actually out-shot Kentucky from the ...

This NCAA tournament is one unlike any other that has preceded it. Never before have we seen two two-seeds go down in the same round, on the same day. Never have we had four different teams from one single state make it to the Sweet 16. Except, it's not always about the team accolades, it's also about individuals. Now, I'm not talking about the big name players we already expected to do well in these games, I'm talking ...

There's no arguing it, the North Carolina Tar Heels are a better team with Kendall Marshall at the point. He is easily one of the top 5 distributors in college basketball, his basketball IQ is off the charts. Quite simply put, if he suits up Sunday vs the Jayhawks, the Tar Heel's chances of advancing to the Final Four increase tremendously.However, if Marshall is not able to play, the Tar Heels will need other players ...

Nearly three weeks have passed since Temple University accepted an invitation to join the Big East, and no one has offered an argument as to why the school shouldn't have made the move. That's because there aren't any. Nearly eight years after the Owls were forced out of the Big East football conference for being "non-competitive", the school was formally invited on March 7 to re-join the conference, this time in all sports. "This is ...

The Louisville Cardinals are going to the Final Four, and they have their resiliency and never-give-up attitude to thank for the honor.The Cardinals looked like a team that wasn't going to survive against a very dangerous and sharp-shooting Florida Gators team.Even though the No. 4-seeded Cardinals came into the game as the higher seed—Florida was seeded No. 7 in the West Region—there was no doubting that the Gators were coming into this game hot.They beat ...

On Sunday, North Carolina will take on Kansas, and Kentucky will match up with Baylor. The winners of these games will play each other for the national championship. Indirectly, they will have to take on winners from the East and West regions, but ultimately it will come down to the last teams standing from these two games.Baylor is a very talented team, especially in the frontcourt with Perry Jones III and the active Quincy Acy. ...

Kendall Marshall's wrist injury has been another devastating setback for the North Carolina Tar Heels— for the point guard has been dubbed the leader and creative force of the UNC basketball team. During this season, Marshall has averaged nearly 10 assists per game and has proven to be a significant scoring threat. As the UNC record holder for assists during a season, he has been involved in almost half of the points accumulated this season.  The Tar Heels' performance suffers without Marshall's presence on the ...

Here’s the game we’ve all been waiting for. Tonight we will find out which team will be representing the East region in the Final Four of the 2012 NCAA tournament. Tonight we will see: No. 1 Syracuse vs. No, 2 Ohio State at 7:05 p.m. ET on CBS Will Ohio State big men Jared Sullinger and Deshaun Thomas continue their dominance or will the 2-3 zone of Syracuse be too much for them to handle? ...