Category Archives: Brackets

Thank You, College Basketball

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Parity. Chaos. Upsets. Dunk City. Harvard’s first win. Kevin Ware’s leg. Legends like Pitino, Coach K, Izzo, and Boeheim. Russ-diculous. Trey Burke. Unsung heroes like Spike Albrecht and Luke Hancock. Senior leaders like Peyton Siva. And that was all in the Tournament alone.

It’s ironic that the song is called “One Shining Moment” when there are always so many good ones that it’s hard to pick the one that shines the most.

Now we wait 213 days until the 2013-14 season tips off on November 8 in the Barclay’s Center.

Florida Gulf Coast: The Team That Took Over the Internet

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Dunk City, FL.  Flori-DUNK Gulf Coast.  Florida Dunk Coast.  There can’t be too many nicknames for this team. They have set the internet ablaze.  During each game, Twitter was unbelievable.  The Georgetown win was amazing because everyone was amazed. The San Diego State win became more of a great display of basketball – no, sports – fans embracing something historic, amazing, and heart-warming as it was happening.

This team – and the phenomenon they’ve created – have made the internet go crazy with stories, GIFs, videos, and tweets.  Here are some of the highlights: 

Let the high-flying fun begin

Conference Power Rankings: Sweet 16

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While I dislike drawing sweeping conclusions over small sample sizes, I find it hard to get away from talk about how certain conferences are performing in the NCAA Tournament.  Each year, it seems that trends develop within leagues that have at least four teams in the field.  This year is no different.  So which conferences are having the best performances so far?

Round of 64
Thursday and Friday were marked with intra-conference trends.  Here’s a look at my Conference Power Rankings as they stood after Friday night and a quick description on each.

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Found on Twitter – NCAA Tournament Storylines: East and West Regions

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It’s been a while since my last installment of “Found on Twitter,” so I thought we’d merge two of my favorite things together by mixing twitter with the NCAA Tournament.  The following tweets are from Sunday during the Selection Show and will provide a good look at the important storylines in “the Dance.”

Tough at the Top of Each Region

Indiana probably has the easiest potential 1-8 matchup despite NC State returning many players from a team that made the second weekend last year. That speaks just as much to the difficulty of the others (Louisville – Colorado State; Kansas – North Carolina; and Gonzaga – Pittsburgh) than it does to NC State’s comically bad 106 ranking in Adjusted Defensive Efficiency.

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Found on Twitter – NCAA Tournament Storylines: Midwest and South Regions

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It’s been a while since my last installment of “Found on Twitter,” so I thought we’d merge two of my favorite things together by mixing twitter with the NCAA Tournament.  The following tweets are from Sunday during the Selection Show and will provide a good look at the important storylines in “the Dance.”

Starting at the Top

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