If you’re someone like Maryland, St. Mary’s, Baylor or Penn State, all you needed was for Arizona State to beat USC for the Pac-10 championship, and your chances of getting to the Big Dance were looking good.
An Arizona State win and USC goes to the N.I.T.
But noooooooooooo!
Now the No. 23 Sun Devils loss will have you sitting on pins and needles on Sunday. You’ll have to wait and see if you will be one of the 65 teams to get into the tournament. Your chances became fewer, because the Sun Devils couldn’t hold off USC today in a 66-63 loss …read more

What’s gotten into Cleveland?
First, Cleveland State punches it’s ticket to the Big Dance by punching Associated Press number 16 ranked Butler in the face 57-54 for the Horizon League tournament championship. Cleveland State (25-10) is dancing for the first time in 23 years.
Now the question is, will the selection committee take two teams from the Horizon League to the Big Dance?
I’m also watching the Cleveland Cavaliers lose to the Clippers right now. It’s late in the first half, and I’m sure once the second half gets underway, LeBron James will restore order.
DePaul’s win against Cincinnati in the first round …read more

Can you believe it’s March already?
Today, I’m not going to start at the top of the polls and talk about how much I want this week’s number one Connecticut to win it all. I really do because I’d like to see the expression on the state government’s and that nutty freelancer/activist faces when coach Jim Calhoun holds the trophy.
This time I’m going to start at the bottom of the top 25 and work my way up.
Looks like I might have been all wrong about No. 25 Syracuse. The Orange are 28-8 overall and 9-7 in the Big East. With games …read more

I’ve been away for the past week due to a death in the family. My wife has been out of the country for the funeral (her dad’s), and that left my four-year-old son and I here alone together. All we had to promise my wife was that we wouldn’t kill each and/or destroy the house.
Promises, promises. As long as we get the foot print stains on the ceiling cleaned by the time she gets back on Wednesday night, we’ll be fine.
I was able to keep track of some of the goings on in the world of college basketball and here’s …read more

One of the most popular sporting events in the world is the NCAA basketball tournament. March Madness. Bracketology. One Shining Moment. Princeton versus Georgetown.
For two weeks in March, it captivates the American sports scene.  College basketball is kind for those two weeks.
Apparently, The Gazelle Group believes that more college basketball in March is a good thing. They announced The College Basketball Invitational, which will compete directly with the NIT for the scraps that the NCAA tournament didn’t want.
In total, there will be 113 teams now playing in post-season basketball tournaments.
People don’t watch the NIT to begin with, and now we …read more