Dayton's Archie Miller and Xavier's Chris Mack were popular projections -- White might just provide the Gators with another young coach undaunted about the challenges of working at football-first Florida.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Arms waving and legs churning, Arizona is racing back into the Sweet 16. The rest of the bracket should take notice of this one. If they play like this, the Wildcats are going to be awfully tough to beat. Overwhelming Gonzaga with its contest-everything defense, Arizona looked very much like the […]
PHOENIX — A Monday announcement put the Valley in the running to host a Final Four for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Committees said Monday the Phoenix/Glendale region and the University of Phoenix Stadium have been chosen as a finalist to host a Final Four. If chosen […]
Arizona will host the College Football Playoff championship in 2016 and Tampa, Fla., will be the site of the 2017 title game. The conference commissioners who oversee the playoffs announced Monday their choices for the sites of the second and third championship games in the new postseason system that goes into effect next season. “This […]
Arizona has played host to a variety of championship sporting events, from the Super Bowl to the World Series and of course the BCS National Championship. But one thing the state has yet to see is an NCAA Final Four. ASU Athletic Director Steve Patterson told Arizona Sports 620’s Doug and Wolf that he plans […]
In the interest of full disclosure, Deadspin.com’s Matt Giles admits his weekly ranking of the top 15 most watchable teams in college basketball isn’t based on records or the schools most likely to make a deep run in March. With that said, Valley fans will take a nod in their direction any which way they […]
PHOENIX — By Florida standards, the 2011-12 regular season was nothing to write home about. The Gators tallied a 23-10 record (10-6 in the SEC), finishing behind Kentucky, Tennessee and Vanderbilt in the conference. And, losers of four of their last five heading into the NCAA Tournament, the seventh-seeded team did not necessarily have the […]
Florida head coach Billy Donovan is no stranger to NCAA Tournament success. After all, the 46-year-old has two national championships to his credit. He’s also no stranger to having underclassmen lead the way for his Gators on the floor on college basketball’s biggest stage. The 1999-2000 team was paced by sophomores Mike Miller and Udonis […]
PHOENIX — To say Thursday’s game NCAA West Regional semifinal between Michigan State and Louisville was pretty would be inaccurate. In fact, it’d be a bold-faced lie. A game that went into half with the fourth-seeded Cardinals ahead of the top-seeded Spartans – having made just one shot that was not a three-pointer – was […]
PHOENIX — Louisville’s Gorgui Dieng didn’t score a point in the second half, but he had his fingerprints all over Rick Pitino’s latest NCAA Regional semifinal win. More accurately, he had his entire palm print on it. The 6-foot-11 sophomore from Senegal tied a career-high with 7 blocked shots, including 5 in the second half […]
Thursday was a great example of why Syracuse is one of the most vulnerable No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. Their 72-65 win over UNC Asheville aided by numerous poor calls and a sloppy zone defense should be enough to make ‘Cuse fans worried about Kansas State in their next game on Saturday. The […]
Granted he was not a highly touted recruit, Ryan Evans return to Arizona for the NCAA Tournament has been met with huge fan fare. Evans is currently a sophomore on the Wisconsin Badgers who are posturing to earn a spot in the Sweet Sixteen Saturday night. Before Evans became a Badger he was a high […]
On July 1, 2011, the Pac-10 conference will officially welcome its two new members and become the Pac-12. The conference unveiled the new Pac-12 logo through a YouTube music video, which featured jersey-clad students of the dozen schools dancing and performing a card routine. At the end of the video, they put the cards together […]
This Thursday and Friday most people will have a crumpled up bracket in their pocket or one open on a computer screen. Everybody loves the NCAA Tournament, the madness. The first four days are the best days in sports according to some. There is no denying the excitement created by the buzzer beaters, upsets and […]
