Two of the top three teams in the country square off on Saturday with #3 Virginia (20-1) hosting #2 Duke (20-2). Duke and Virginia are also tied for first place in the ACC with an identical 8-1 conference record. Three weeks ago, Duke hosted Virginia in Durham, North Carolina and […]
The Nevada Wolfpack improved to 21-1 this week and moved up two spots with the #6 overall ranking in the latest AP Poll for mens college basketball. With both Michigan (20-2) and Michigan State (18-4) losing this week, Nevada jumped from #8 to #6 overall. Nevada started the season ranked […]
After starting the season 17-1, the Buffalo Bulls were ranked #16 this week by the college basketball AP Poll. The high-scoring Buffalo Bulls are averaging 84.6 points per game and led by senior CJ Massinburg. The 6-foot-3 guard averages 18.1 points this season and hitting nearly 42 percent of his […]
The #2 Michigan Wolverines started the basketball season with a 15-0 record, and aside from their loss to Villanova in the NCAA Championship game last spring, the Wolverines are 29-1 over their last 30 games dating back to February 2018. The Wolverines are only one win away from tying their […]
After losing four straight games, UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero terminated men’s basketball coach, Steve Alford. Since 2013, Alford guided the Bruins to a 124-63 record with three Sweet 16 appearances and four March Madness appearances. As an #11 seed in the 2018 tournament, UCLA was bounced in the First […]
Sportsbooks see some pretty interesting characters, some of which have a fondness for the large wager. There was a couple of guys who strolled into Las Vegas casinos with sacks of cash to put on marquee games or events. In 2018 it seemed like the high-profile bettor was taking some […]
Top-ranked recruit Vernon Carey, Jr, a 6-foot-10 center from NSU University Prep School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, declared his intentions to attend Duke University next year. Carey is considered the second-best center in the country behind James Wiseman. Two weeks ago, Wiseman announced he would stay in Memphis and play […]
The NCAA has long faced criticism from both traditionalist coaches and stats-heavy analysts for using the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) as a criteria when selecting teams for March Madness. That led the NCAA to create the NET ratings instead – and the early indications are that they could be even […]
Memphis high school basketball star and the #1 prospect in the country, 7-foot tall center James Wiseman, decided to stay in his hometown and attend the University of Memphis next season. Memphis, thanks to new head coach Penny Hardaway, won a fierce recruiting battle against Kentucky to land Wiseman, the […]
The Kansas Jayhawks are ranked #1 as the top team in men’s college basketball by the preseason AP Poll. The first poll of the year ranked Villanova, the defending champion, as ninth overall. Top Ranking for Kansas Kansas received 37 first-place votes, nearly twice as many as Kentucky. Villanova, the […]
The NCAA has long been one of the staunchest opponents of legalized sports betting, but they seem to be softening their stance, at least somewhat. No, they’re not about to drop their challenge to New Jersey vs. the NCAA in the Supreme Court, but the group representing college athletics has decided […]
Duke is the favorite to win the NCAA Men’s basketball championship in 2019, according to the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, even though the Blue Devils will be losing several starters. They’re listed at 5/1 to triumph in next year’s March Madness. Defending champs Villanova opened as 8/1 picks, the same […]
It isn’t that Villanova won its second NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship in three years, it’s how overpowering they were in doing so. Monday’s 79-62 victory over Michigan was just the coronation after ruling over all of their competition throughout March Madness. The Wildcats won all six of their games by […]
Most basketball players dream of hitting a game-winning shot, but Arike Ogunbowale of Notre Dame made two in three days, one of which gave her team the NCAA Women’s Championship. It was the conclusion of a season that was wrought with adversity. It was the second NCAA Title for Irish […]
The Villanova Wildcats will be looking to earn their second national championship in three years when they take on the Michigan Wolverines Monday night in the finals of the NCAA Tournament at the Alamodome in San Antonio. While March Madness has been full of surprises throughout the tournament, Villanova (35-4) […]
Villanova and Kansas are meeting in one of the Final Four semifinal games, but it might just be the real title game. Oddsmakers have these two as the favorites to win, regardless of who the winner of this matchup ultimately faces in the championship game. Villanova and Kansas are both […]
Another chapter will be written in one of the most memorable Cinderella stories in recent NCAA Tournament history on Saturday, as Loyola-Chicago takes on the University of Michigan at the Final Four in San Antonio. The Loyola-Chicago Ramblers (32-5) may have come into the tournament as the South region’s No. […]
While Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt might be preoccupied praying for her Loyola-Chicago team in the NCAA Tournament, sportsbooks have been busy including her in their slate of Final Four prop bets. The 98-year-old team chaplain has been a fixture on the Ramblers sideline, and now she’s getting attention from internet […]
The Final Four of the Women’s NCAA Tournament begins Friday night in Columbus, Ohio, with the UConn Huskies taking their annual position as the favorite to win yet another national championship. UConn (36-0) is appearing in the Final Four for a record 11th consecutive year. But unlike their last four trips […]
There may have been some upsets along the way, but the Final Four of the Women’s NCAA Tournament will feature the teams that have been on everyone’s radar all year long, as all four No. 1 seeds have reached the national semifinals. Some of the favorites have hardly been challenged […]
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