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Bracket Analysis: West Regional Preview
The theme of the 2011 NCAA Tournament seems to be “mis-seeding” (or if you're Colorado and Alabama, highway robbery) and the West Region is no...
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Bracket Analysis: East Regional Preview
The number one seed overall has its privileges. You usually get to play a number of pseudo home games and are supposed to get a favorable draw. So...
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Previewing the Tourney
Lock it up, ladies and gents: It's Tourney Time. March to March recently contributed to a series of previews for SB Nation. Check out the opening monologue of a few below, then...
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Elite Eight Breakdown: Part I
The only thing certain about the upcoming madness here in the third weekend in March is uncertainty. There’s not a wire to wire thoroughbred like the 1990 Vegas squad or a UNC...
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Jim Calhoun and an “Atmosphere of Compliance” are not Facebook Friends
Per Andy Katz at ESPN, the NCAA Infractions Committee will soon make its ruling on the UConn investigation. Katz reports that the committee will...
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Elite 8: Week of February 21
Well by this point in the season, it seems pretty clear that there are five major conference teams in consideration for four #1 seeds, and any of them could make a compelling case for...
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Thoughts on Duke vs North Carolina
It’s the ultimate college hoops rivalry. One state, one ridiculously high standard of basketball, and two shades of blue. From Jeff Capel’s...
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Duke-UNC
Or UNC-Duke, if you prefer. The ZOMG FTW IAMRIGHTYOUAREWRONG BEST RIVALRY IN COLLEGE SPORTS (ESPN patent pending) is back on television tonight, for the first of what could be up...
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Elite 8: Week of February 7
KB will be posting up his thoughts on his final Elite 8 teams. You can start the series with Ohio State and Texas; look for more to come in the upcoming days. As for me, I'll still be...
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Elite Eight Round Robin Part II: Texas Longhorns
Al McGuire used to say he’d only recruit kids that had cracks in their sidewalks. The colorful hall of fame coach from Marquette wanted tough...
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Elite Eight Round Robin Part I: Ohio State
Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. SWOT. In other words, Every MBA professor’s wet dream, or EMPWD. Here I sit, armed with SWOT...
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Random Ballscreens: Around the Fantake Network (and more!)
We'll start at the Mothership, where Longhorns fans are riding high. After last year's clusterflux, Texas finds itself undefeated and atop the Big...
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Welcome
My name is Kevin Berger, and I'm a basketball addict. Sweet, got that first step out of the way. Seriously, I just wanted to take this opportunity to tell you who I am and how I...
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Duke Basketball: The Devil You Know?
The last game of the 2009 season for the Blue Devils was a wake up call. And by wake up call I mean chasing ephedrine laced diet pills with a...
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A Few Thoughts on Villanova @ West Virginia
Other than the gratuitous "duck!!" advice I'd offer the Villanova coaching staff during timeouts, here are some of my thoughts about tonight's Big...
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Top 8 Teams in College Hoops
This is from a post at the start of February (clearly as Texas is but a smoking crater). ________ Never to early to start looking to March. Joe Lunardi has a pretty solid...
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Making a Case for a 1 Seed: Villanova Tops the ‘Neers
Going into the game you would have thought the battle would have been a classic matchup between West Virginia's frontcourt and Villanova's...
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Quick Hitter on What I’ll Be Watching Tonight
First off, I'll be sure to check in to watch, historically, college basketball's greatest rivalry. I get that UNC is a shell of its...
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Bedeviling Without a Point Guard
The old adage is that guard play wins basketball games, especially tournament games. The adage rings true, for the most part, because in the heat of a possession things can go...
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Big Dancing: Sorting Out the One Seeds
A quick check of the calendar tells you this post is way too early, but today's slate of basketball games leaves a lot to be desired. Call it the...
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Syracuse vs. Villanova for All the Marbles
It's the moment all Big East fans have been waiting for. A battle of the two conference titans featuring contrasting styles should be one for...
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Orange Crushed: Syracuse Dominates Villanova
Here endeth the lesson. The big dog of the Big East has shown himself and he's wearing Orange. If you're playing the biggest game in the...
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Duke Blue Devils Plant Virginia and a 1 Seed
When Tony Bennett left Washington State to coach Virginia he must have felt like he was traveling to another country. After watching his...
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ACC Game Preview: Duke Blue Devils vs. Maryland Terrapins
Much like the huge Big East battle between Syracuse and Villanova last Saturday night, the game between Duke and Maryland in College Park will be...
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Some Thoughts on Kansas vs. KSU
Lost in all of the Big East and ACC hoopla, there's another battle for a national 1 seed going on tonight in the Big 12. What's that Mr. Jayhawk fan? No. Don't worry. The...
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Tricky Terrapins: Maryland Upends Duke
For the Duke Blue Devils, walking into the Comcast Cole Center had to feel like walking into college basketball's version of an ambush. Or a dojo...
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March Madness: Ohio State Bucks Eyeing Final # 1 Seed
With the Duke Blue Devils loss at Maryland and upstart Kansas State falling victim to a Kansas Jayhawk onslaught, the search for the final national...
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One Seed Weaknesses Part I: Syracuse Orangemen
One of the most memorable scenes in the movie "Hoosiers" depicted Gene Hackman surrounded by Hickory High's players in their pregame lockerroom. ...
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One Seed Weaknesses Part II: Kansas Jayhawks
Superman had kryptonite. Michael Jordan had John Starks, Dean Smith, and gambling. Bob Knight had Puerto Rican police officers and ill...
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One Seed Weaknesses Part III: Kentucky Wildcats
Youth is wasted on the young. So are 40 inch verticals, freakishly explosive crossovers, and $3,000 rims on a Chevy Corsica. In college...
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One Seed Weaknesses IV: Duke Blue Devils
I'm taking some liberties here, I know. I'm assuming Duke wins a couple games in the ACC tournament and holds off West Virginia and Ohio State...
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Thoughts on Evan Turner’s Bomb
A two dribble, thirty-five foot form jumper for the win at the buzzer is Player of the Year worthy stuff. It was a great shot by a great player that will be shown 8 billion times...
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Conference Tournaments = Big Dogs Struggling
This time of year there's a lot of teeth gnashing and hand wringing when a top team struggles or gets upset in conference tournament play. Keep in...
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Big East Beast: The West Virginia Mountaineers
Bob Huggins doesn't recruit basketball players he recruits tough guys who happen to play basketball. He did the same thing at Cincinnati with...
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Evan Turner is the Best Player in the Country
For my money the race for Player of the Year isn't all that close. Sorry John Wall. My apologies Wes Johnson. Evan Turner is the most dynamic and...
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React-to-Ology: Early Look at the Madness of March
Hold on a second...give me a chance to pop in some ear plugs as Dick Vitale waxes indignant about some selection snubs. Count down to mocking a...
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Bracket Analysis: The Wild West Regional
Go west young man. There's gold in them there hills, which probably sits well with the 12th seeded UTEP Miners. There's little resistance in...
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Bracket Anaylysis: Monsters of the Midwest Regional
The top four seeds in the Midwest region were introduced by Jim Nantz on selection Sunday in seemingly rapid fire succession. Kansas. Ohio State. ...
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New Recruiting Feature on March to March: Weekly Whispers
March to March is excited to announce the addition of a new weekly feature called Weekly Whispers from a source with intimate knowledge of the...
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Making it Official: Tighter Officiating’s Effect on the Tournament
It's common knowledge that officiating gets a little tighter in tournament play. Especially when compared to the infrequency of whistles blown as...
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Final Four Prediction
Arinze Onuaku's injury has forced me to turn this year's bracket prediction into a "Multiple Endings" story. Don't get me wrong, we're not hyper-geeks playing Dungeons and Dragons...
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Round 2 Saturday Recaps
We talked about the upset of the decade in this post, but I watched some other great basketball today I'd like to comment on. For me, the theme of the day was well-played...
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Top Ten Reasons Why Cal Can Beat Duke
This would probably go a bit better if you read it in your Bobby Knight voice and it had two decades worth of goodwill built up from its gratuitous...
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Goats of the Weekend
What would one shining moment be without 100 forgettable moments? It would be a trophy ceremony at the YMCA. You know what I'm talking about. Even if your basketball team went...
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Reseeding the Tournament
I like the tournament exactly the way it is. But for the purposes of identifying whose playing the best ball, let's try an experiment and see how things would look if we reseeded...
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Memphis Tigers Denied Win Reinstatement: Is Kentucky Concerned?
This from the WWL on Memphis' appeal. "The Infractions Appeals Committee found no basis to conclude that the penalty was excessive such that...
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East Regional Semi-Final Preview: Washington Huskies vs. West Virginia Mountaineers
East vs. West. Guards vs. Forwards. Back to the basket power basketball vs. open floor, one pass and shoot break-neck pace. This is what we'll...
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East Regional Semi-Final 2: Cornell Big Red vs. Kentucky Wildcats
If you're going to beat Goliath you have to know who Goliath is. What are his likes and dislikes? Candle-lit dinners or walks on the beach? Does he...
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West Regional Semi-Final: Butler Bulldogs vs. Syracuse Orange
Syracuse is coming off of two woodshed games against the likes of Gonzaga and Vermont. Vermont was a sixteen seed afterthought and Gonzaga lacked...
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Elite Coaches Unique Challenges
There isn't a runaway favorite to win the National Championship left in this tournament. Not after Kansas was Farokhmanesh-ed. There isn't a club like the 2009 North Carolina team...
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Duke vs. West Virginia: Keys to the Game
The interesting thing about how these two teams advanced to Indianapolis is the way they went against their own DNA to survive and advance. West...
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Final Four Final Thoughts
Tonight is the last step in our march through March. Butler vs. Duke. Two private schools that do it the right way. Cap tip to both programs for navigating the big dance...
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Two Shining Moments?
Somewhere atop college basketball's Mount Olympus, Dr. James Naismith had a peach basket-sized grin on his face. Iba, Haskins, and Rupp put down their playing cards, cigars, and...
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What Kyle Singler’s Return Means for the Duke Blue Devils
Kyle Singler's decision to return to Durham gives the talented wing another full year to grow out his eyebrows before playing professionally in the...
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Crystal Ballin’: The 2011 Final Four Favorites
Waiting for the recruiting and NBA declaration dust to settle shouldn't stop us from wildly speculating the four teams that will be left standing...
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College Hoops Preseason Top 10: Good, But Way Too Early
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius Why is it that I read Confucius in my Yoda voice? Probably...
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Preview of the Big Ten vs. ACC Challenge: Game 1 Michigan State at Duke
With Midnight Madness a few months away, fans around the country have begun peering at non-conference schedules of their favorite team in...
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SEC Sundry
Well, that sucked. To take my mind off things, let's do a quick recap of some SEC happenings. The biggest news of the weekend was the preservation of Eric Bledsoe's eligibility,...
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SOTU Kentucky: Barely Legal #2
No, it's not a porn title, although Coach Cal's hair certainly qualifies for the role. Let's talk Kentucky basketball and the new crop of diaper dandies (again, not a porn title) that...
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Austin Rivers Commits to Duke
Per the WWL: Rivers broke the news to Kansas coach Bill Self and North Carolina's Roy Williams, who made up Rivers' top three choices, on Thursday morning. Rivers also canceled the...
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Weekly Whispers: October 1, 2010
Austin Rivers If you were living under a rock, the news of the week is that Austin Rivers has committed to Duke. Per the comments, I went back and did more research on when M2M...
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A Duke Repeat? It’s Deja Vu All Over Again.
Those that forget history are doomed to repeat it. For Coach K’s Duke Blue Devils, if they’re not careful they’re going to do exactly that...
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2010 State of the Union Roundup
March to March's personal collection of 2010 State of the Unions. Read about your favorite team (assuming they're at all relevant to us) here. ACC North Carolina State: Is the...
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Huge Recruiting News: Miller, Bello, and Maybe Nash to Baylor
Quincy Miller is the number one ranked hybrid forward in the nation for the class of 2011 and the word we’re hearing is that he’s all set to...
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On Recruits and Recruiting
With the early basketball National Letter of Intent signing period on the horizon, a discussion of the cycles of basketball recruiting seems appropriate. Those who have followed...
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State of the Union: University of North Carolina Tar Heels
Consistency. The Tar Heel faithful venerated Dean Smith for many things: he won, he graduated kids, he ran a clean program, and his teams were...
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SOTU Kansas: Reality Bites
Let me preface by saying that I’m big fan of Kansas basketball. Like, Mark Mangino big. I personally think one of the best things to come out of the Big 12-2 implosion followed by...
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Book Review “Play Their Hearts Out”
Laws, resembling sausages, cease to inspire in proportion as we know how they are made. – John Godfrey Saxe. As college basketball fans, we...
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Kabongo: Back To Texas?
"March to March" is mulling a change in name to "As Kabongo Turns." The latest news is that Kabongo is returning back to Texas. Coach Barnes better get him to sign on the line that...
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NCAA: Enes Kanter Ineligible
After inking the consensus Number 1 recruiting class for 2011, the University of Kentucky learned that a key member of the Number 1 recruiting class in 2010 has been ruled ineligible...
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24 Hours of College Basketball! ZOMG!!@~! Viewer’s Guide
That's right, hoops fans. College basketball "officially" tips off today with ESPN's "that's dedication, homes" 24 hours of college basketball....
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Is Duke the Best Team in the Land? Guess Again.
Earlier this summer I posted a Deja Vu article proclaiming that Duke was about to make another historic back to back run like the did in 1992. The...
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What to Watch For Preseason Tournament Roundup
CBE Classic (Nov. 22-23) Duke takes on Marquette in the undercard tonight, and new heavyweight Kansas State draws basketball's version of Boise...
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Krzyzewski and Smith: An Overview
Sometime in the next two months – and perhaps as soon as December 29, 2010 – Mike Krzyzewski will surpass Dean Smith as the second winningest...
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Trading Places: Harrison Barnes vs. Jared Sullinger
In a nature vs. nurture argument, nature usually wins out. But what happens when you put two natural basketball players like Jared Sullinger and...
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Thoughts On The Kansas State Wildcats vs. Duke Blue Devils Tilt
So as was predicted in March to March’s Duke preview, tonight’s matchup ended up being a battle of wills and styles—if you will. Frontcourt...
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Recruiting Roundup: November 29, 2010
With college football winding down and college basketball gearing up, we haven't covered the recruiting circuit in a while. Here's a quick round-up...
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March to March’s Elite 8: First Edition – 11/30
So we’ve got five or six games under our belts and college basketball’s big dogs have played one or two formidable foes to give us a capable...
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Big 10 vs. ACC Challenge: Michigan State vs. Duke
Story Line Not only is this game the headliner of the Conference Challenge but it’s likely the most intriguing non-conference game in all the...
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Jimmy V Classic Tonight
UNDERCARD: #4 Kansas vs. #14 Memphis Kansas comes in at 7-0 after back-to-back Pac-10 wins against Arizona and UCLA. Keep in mind: UCLA then promptly decided to lose to FCS...
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Elite Eight-Week of December 6th
1. Duke Still the odds on favorite to run the mesa. Guard play is exquisite and Mason Plumlee is legit inside. I’m still not convinced they can weather a frontcourt storm if a...
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What if They Didn’t Have Early Entry Into the NBA Draft?
The exam period doldrums between early season tournaments and the start of conference play provide ample opportunity for wool gathering and...
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Recruiting Roundup: December 15, 2010
A quick look at some remaining 2011 targets... The big news to follow is the recruitment of 2011 SF DeAndre Daniels. If you haven't been...
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Devilicious Roundtable: Life After Kyrie Irving’s Toe
Here's a chat I had recently with the supremely talented Mike Yen of the Duke Blog Devilicious about the loss of Kyrie Irving, Singler's true...
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Elite 8: Week of January 24
Going forward, my Elite 8's won't be a true power poll, nor will it be a resume ranking. I'm trying to project out the final seeds, but taking into account mostly performance to date,...
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Recruiting Roundup: January 25, 2011
Your Obligatory DeAndre Daniels Update. Nothing new. What a shock. Spurious rumor is Daniels is all but signed, sealed and delivered to Kansas, but...
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Jimmer-ny Christmas
There was apparently some kind of basketball matchup between the BYU Cougars and San Diego State Aztecs last night. It was broadcast on something called CBS College Sports, which I...
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Texas to 2012 Maui Invitational
Posted by Bob in Houston on July 8th, 2011 under Basketball
I thought Rick Barnes was seriously considering not going to Hawaii any longer, but apparently he’s still OK with it.
North Carolina and Butler also will be there. The rest of the field is Marquette, Illinois, USC, Mississippi State and host Chaminade.
Earlier today, ESPN’s Bill Simmons debuted Grantland, his ambitious passion project slash website. While the initial content is relatively sparse, I personally love the concept: a convergence of sports and popular culture via the congregation of some brilliant writers. The headline writer (other than Simmons, of course) is
Our Long, National Nightmare Is Over
Posted by jc25 on June 7th, 2011 under Recruiting
Our long, national nightmare is over. Maybe.
The byzantine recruitment trail of DeAndre Daniels has ended with him committing to the University of Connecticut, of all places. The news was broken by Evan Daniels of Scout via Twitter. Per Daniels, IMG Academy’s head basketball coach Vince
ESPN Hates Indiana University
Posted by jc25 on May 26th, 2011 under Basketball
ESPN and lead reporter Mike Fish unleashed a shocking bombshell on the college basketball landscape today. Per the Worldwide Leader, there have been a litany of ties between the Indiana Elite AAU program, the African Hoop Opportunities Providing an Education (A-HOPE) non-profit foundation, and Indiana University. Mark Adams is
Kyle Singler and Tjarks Have Something in Common
Posted by jc25 on May 25th, 2011 under Basketball
If you haven’t already seen this spectacular YouTube video, check out Kyle Singler stealing borrowing the FanTake moniker “Get Buckets” while, well, getting buckets.
Trick shot madness, huzzah!
Recruiting Roundup: May 18, 2011
Posted by jc25 on May 18th, 2011 under Recruiting
Today’s the last day of the late signing period for the class of 2011, so it seems more than an apt time to take a look at the recruiting landscape.
2011 Targets
Laces Out. Alabama’s Anthony Grant pulled off a coup today with the commitment of in-state
Post-Draft Declaration Elite 8
Posted by jc25 on May 17th, 2011 under Basketball
The Barkers that are prevalent on this site will no doubt rue the NBA Draft implosion that happened to the 2011-12 Longhorns squad. Gone are Jordan Hamilton, Tristan Thompson, and Cory Joseph. While other teams were hit to a various extent (Darius Morris from Michigan, Tyler Honeycutt from UCLA,
Kentucky Wildcats Recruiting Coverage
Posted by jc25 on April 21st, 2011 under Recruiting
For those of you who enjoy my content on March to March, I appreciate the readership. If you haven’t seen by now, I’ve recently started to write for A Sea of Blue, SB Nation’s Kentucky Wildcats sports blog. If you’re a Wildcats fan, or even if you aren’t, head
Recruiting Roundup: April 8, 2011
Posted by jc25 on April 8th, 2011 under Recruiting
Our 2010-2011 college basketball season has come and gone, which gives way to a new season of NBA Draft declarations, coaching changes, and of course, recruiting. The formers usually have an impact on the latter, although the effect is decidedly muted this year, thanks to a rash of early commitments
Your Way-Too-Early 2012 Elite 8
Posted by jc25 on April 6th, 2011 under Basketball
March to March likes to consider itself forward-thinking, partially because we’ve got the inherent pun in the site name, or perhaps because this year’s championship game completely sucked and we’d just as sooner prefer moving on. And what better way to go forth and conquer than a completely inaccurate
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