Articles in the NCAAB Category
NCAAB »
The NCAA Tournament officially begins Tuesday night in Dayton, with Winthrop and Arkansas-Pine Bluff playing for the right to get crushed by Duke on Friday.
Winthrop (19-13) was the Big South Tournament champion and closed the season winning 14 of its final 18 games. This is Winthrop’s nint... read more
NCAAB »
If you can’t quite wait for Thursday and the start of the NCAA Tournament, the NIT tips off on Tuesday night with a few of college basketball’s normal heavyweights, North Carolina and Connecticut, headlining the field.
Of course Carolina is the defending national champion, while UConn los... read more
NCAAB »
There is a job opening in the Big Ten now as Iowa has fired head basketball coach Todd Lickliter following the Hawkeyes’ 10-22 season and 4-14 record in the Big Ten. Those 22 losses are a school record, and only Penn State had a worse conference record than the Hawkeyes. The 10 wins this season ma... read more
NCAAB »
The Syracuse Orange got pretty good news on injured center Arinze Onuaku, but it still appears that he will miss SU’s first- and second-round NCAA Tournament games.
Onuaku was hurt in the Orange’s loss to Georgetown in the Big East Tournament. It looked quite serious and there were conce... read more
NCAAB »
Following Connecticut’s hugely disappointing first-round Big East Tournament loss to St. John’s – a game in which it seemed that UConn quit early – speculation raged that coach Jim Calhoun might not be brought back. After all, the Huskies finished the season at 17-15 and with four straight l... read more
NCAAB »
The Big Ten co-regular season champion Michigan State Spartans are the third seed in the Big Ten Tournament, but MSU won’t have a starter for its tourney opener and possibly beyond.
That would be guard Chris Allen, who was suspended by Coach Tom Izzo indefinitely from the team. Izzo gave fe... read more
NCAAB »
The Pac-10 Tournament opens on Wednesday night in Los Angeles with one game, Washington State vs. Oregon, and it’s quite likely to be the last game for Ducks coach Ernie Kent.
Kent reportedly has told his players he won’t be back next season. The Ducks are 15-15 in Kent’s 13th seaso... read more
NCAAB »
The Texas Longhorns have been one of the major disappointments this college basketball season. It sure didn’t start out that way, as UT was 17-0 at one point and No. 1 in the nation for the first time. But since then, the Horns are just 6-8 and enter the Big 12 Tournament unranked and without even... read more
