There will be no shortage of options to follow the showdown between Kentucky and UConn. CBSSports' Jon Rothstein wrote on CBSSports.com that, "The unpredictability of college basketball is what makes the sport so special. A seven seed won the national title and it beat an eight seed to do it. UConn was at one point … Read more
The NCAA Tournament is not the best way to determine the best team in college basketball, and it isn't designed to be. Doing that in any sort of reliable fashion would require the sorts of sample sizes that would extend the season to June — and given Will it be Connecticut or Kentucky cutting the … Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama thinks Michigan State will win the NCAA men's basketball college championship. The problem? As president, Obama has correctly predicted the winner only once, when North Carolina won in 2009. The Power Rank's bracket of the 68 NCAA basketball teams. On the website, the bracket is interactive and shows … Read more
The Hoosiers aren't in the tournament this year and Iowa has already seen their way out. Come join us as we sit and watch the rest of the world burn as teams try to make and break their seasons. Tennessee guard Jordan McRae (52) motions to a teammate while Iowa forward Aaron White (30) watches … Read more
The lecturer was Dr. Tim Chartier, a Davidson College professor who specializes in ranking methods. For the past several years, he has preached and taught a math-heavy form of bracketology—the science of predicting the annual NCAA college basketball According to the Study of Student-Athlete Social Environments, the most recent annual survey of more than 20,000 … Read more
It estimated that in 2013, the NCAA Tournament field spent an average of $5 million per team on men's basketball. At 68 teams, that's a total of nearly $350 million, and as the outlet points out, spending has correlated loosely with tourney success NCAA basketball on Thursday afternoon and we will see the Oregon Ducks … Read more
The NCAA Tournament starts March 20. Here's the official bracket. The lecturer was Dr. Tim Chartier, a Davidson College professor who specializes in ranking methods. For the past several years, he has preached and taught a math-heavy form of bracketology—the science of predicting the annual NCAA college basketball The Madness is back! Last year, we … Read more