Archive for March, 2015

Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Kentucky Wildcats Betting Preview, Game Stats

Posted by OddsShark.com on March 14 2015 Add Comments
The top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats can head into the Big Dance unbeaten with a victory against the Arkansas Razorbacks in the championship game of the SEC tournament Sunday. The top-seeded Wildcats advanced to the title game with a 91-67 rout of the 13th-seeded Auburn Tigers in the first tournament semifinal Saturday as 24-point favorites to land right on the number for a push. The second-seeded Razorbacks later took care of the third-seeded Georgia Bulldogs with a 60-49 victory ...

Kansas vs. Iowa State: Score, Twitter Reaction for Big 12 Championship 2015

Posted by Rob Goldberg on March 14 2015 Add Comments
The comeback kids have done it again. After being down 17 points in the second half, Iowa State stormed back to earn a 70-66 win over Kansas Saturday night in Kansas City, Missouri. The victory gives the Cyclones their second Big 12 tournament title in a row. Georges Niang led the way for the Cyclones with 19 points and five rebounds in the come-from-behind effort, doing everything necessary to help his team win. Three other players ...

Kansas’ Wayne Selden Jr. Throws Down Strong 1-Handed Alley-Oop Versus Iowa State

Posted by Brian Chen on March 14 2015 Add Comments
The No. 9 Kansas Jayhawks took on the No. 13 Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday night for the Big 12 championship.The highlight of the game might have come in the second half  when Jayhawks sophomore Frank Mason III found an open Wayne Selden Jr. cutting to the hoop.Mason threw the perfect lob, and Selden Jr. slammed it home with authority.Unfortunately, it wasn't enough for Kansas as they fell, 70-66.[Vine]Read more College Basketball news on BleacherReport.com

UNC vs. Notre Dame: Live Score, Highlights for ACC Tournament Championship 2015

Posted by Brian Pedersen on March 14 2015 Add Comments
Notre Dame has claimed its first ACC tournament title, using a 24-2 second-half run to score a 90-82 win Saturday night over North Carolina. The Fighting Irish (29-5) scored 51 points after halftime, going from down seven to up by double-digits in almost an instant. They did that with turnovers and outside shooting, forcing 13 takeaways and hitting 10-of-20 from three-point range while making 54.2 percent of their overall shots. North Carolina (24-11) shot 53 percent and ...

Warren Buffett’s $1 Billion Bracket Challenge Dropped for 2015 NCAA Tournament

Posted by Joseph Zucker on March 14 2015 Add Comments
College basketball fans whose route to getting rich involved winning the $1 billion bracket challenge will instead have to pursue another avenue. According to CNN Money's Ben Rooney, the brainchild of Berkshire-Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, Quicken Loans and Yahoo is dead in the water. Rooney reported that a series of lawsuits between the three parties led to the challenge's stoppage. Quicken Loans spokesperson Aaron Emerson released a statement to Benzinga's Javier Hasse (via Yahoo Finance) that read: ...

Xavier vs. Villanova: Live Score and Highlights for Big East Championship 2015

Posted by adam biggers on March 14 2015 Add Comments
Villanova coach Jay Wright earned his first Big East tournament title after Saturday night’s 69-52 victory over Xavier at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Dylan Ennis led the No. 1-seeded Wildcats with 16 points. Josh Hart scored 15 points and Darrun Hilliard II finished with 12 points. The Wildcats made 24 of 48 shot attempts and knocked down nine of 23 attempts from long range. Villanova led 34-21 at the break, despite a respectable effort ...

Michigan State vs. Maryland: Score, Twitter Reaction for Spartans’ Upset Win

Posted by Adam Wells on March 14 2015 Add Comments
Never doubt head coach Tom Izzo in March. The Michigan State Spartans struggled during the regular season but will be playing for the Big Ten Conference championship thanks to their 62-58 upset win over the Maryland Terrapins Saturday at Chicago's United Center.  The Spartans rallied from a huge deficit, trailing by as many as 16 points in the first half and outscoring Maryland by 12 points in the second half to set up a showdown with ...

Iowa State vs. Kansas: Live Score and Highlights for Big 12 Championship 2015

Posted by Sean Hojnacki on March 14 2015 Add Comments
The Iowa State Cyclones trailed by 17 points early in the second half, but they staged another incredible comeback and stunned the Kansas Jayhawks 70-66 to win Saturday's Big 12 Championship Game. Cyclones forward Georges Niang dominated with 19 points, spoiling a highlight-reel night for Jayhawks guard Wayne Selden Jr. who dropped a career-high 25 points on 8-of-12 shooting. The Cyclones trailed 40-23 after the first possession coming out of halftime. Five minutes later following a furious run, they trailed ...

Jim Harbaugh Uses Recruit’s Prom Sign to Lure Him to Michigan

Posted by Brian Chen on March 14 2015 Add Comments
Boss Tagaloa is one of the top defensive tackle prospects in the class of 2016, sitting 10th on 247Sports.com's composite rankings.The De La Salle (Calif.) product has offers from more than a dozen colleges, per 247Sports.com, but Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh likely had the most clever (and funny) recruiting tactic to lure the 295-pounder to the Wolverines.Harbaugh hilariously replicated a sign Tagaloa used for prom, with a few edits, of course:"UM will be SOUR ...

ACC Championship Ticket Features Dismissed Duke Player Rasheed Sulaimon

Posted by Arman Walia on March 14 2015 Add Comments
The ACC might like a re-do on tickets to its tournament championship game.On Saturday night, North Carolina and Notre Dame will meet in the ACC tournament final. The player featured on tickets to this event is Duke's Rasheed Sulaimon.There's only one problem here: Duke kicked him off the team in January for failing to meet the standards of a Blue Devils player. The junior guard was the first player head coach Mike Krzyzewski ever dismissed.Putting a player from an ...