Stanford is going back to the Women’s Final Four … and this time, they mean business.
Without former Player of the Year Candice Wiggins, Stanford needed one of its players to step up big time. Jayne Appel did more than “step up.” She dropped 46 points on Iowa St., to propel her team to St. Louis for another go at an NCAA Championship.
There was no stopping the 6-foot-4 junior, who is 20 pounds lighter than she was last season. Almost every time the ball came to Appel down in the  post, she made a basket. I can honestly say that she …read more

Two Big East teams are still kicking. Gus Johnson would still be yelling if he had been the play-by-play guy for the Nova-Pitt game. My National Champion pick (UNC) is still alive and well despite my utter lack of competence everywhere else on the bracket.
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Forget about Villanova’s impressive run to The Motor City—featuring a ‘why the heck did people pick this team to go to Detroit’ (when they were trailing American by double digits) and ‘this Scottie Reynolds is stinking up the joint’ comments from yours truly—Michigan State takes the cake here. Me hailing from Michigan, what a surprise, huh? Well, …read more

Well, it’s looks as though we know where one of the Curry brothers is going to end up after this basketball season.
ESPN reported yesterday that Seth Curry’s father, former NBA great Dell Curry,  made it known Sunday night after a visit to Durham earlier in the day that Seth had been offered a scholarship by the Duke Blue Devils and accepted. Curry averaged 20.2 points a game for the Flames this past season, making a name for himself in his own right outside of the shadow of his brother, Stephen.
Because of the transfer rule in college basketball, Seth will sit …read more

CBS College Sports recently released their list for the top 50 sites on their network (.pdf file), based on page impressions, unique impressions, online store revenue, and All-Access subscriptions. I have to say that I was a little surprised at some of the schools listed in the top 10.
North Carolina tops the list for page impressions, followed by Alabama, Notre Dame, Florida State, and UCLA. The surprise to me was that Alabama was so high on the list. I would have expected USC (No. 8) or Miami (No. 11) to be ranked in the top five, ahead …read more

In the end, the Cinderella team fell just short in the only close game of the final four. Interestingly, it wasn’t the one man on the one-man team who took the shot. Rather, Stephen Curry passed the ball to Jason Richards at the final seconds. He missed and Davidson fell just short, 57-59. And so, for the first time ever, all one seeds advanced to the final four. Now, the only trivial-absolute-everyone-knows left is that no sixteen seed has ever beaten a one seed.
In the day’s other game, Memphis defeated Texas soundly, 85-67.