Last year the NCAA began a tradition of revealing what the committee would have as the top-16 seeds if Selection Sunday were to come early. The first revealing for the 2018-2019 season comes this Saturday; but first, here’s were my rankings stand heading into the final month of the regular season. *These rankings take into […]
It was only a few weeks ago when it seemed as if March’s tournament would be a mostly foregone conclusion; with the top ten teams in the country looking unstoppable. That outlook quickly took a turn in the span of only a week. WEEK 11 RECAP Duke lost to an unranked Syracuse team at home, […]
During a week highlighted by Cam Reddish going off in the weekend’s blockbuster matchup; the top ten in last week’s AP rankings all went undefeated. As for the rest of the nation; it comes back to everyone’s favorite word…parity. UP AND DOWN THEY GO Outside of the top-ten; teams were on a rollercoaster with with […]
Tuesday night’s loss at home to rival UNC exposed a couple of weaknesses in the 15th-ranked NC State Wolfpack. On Saturday, at least one of those afflictions threatened to rear its ugly head. Despite being one of the hottest shooting teams in the nation, the Wolfpack suffered droughts throughout the loss to UNC and had […]
For the past three weeks, the top six teams in college basketball remained unchanged. With the conference play getting underway throughout the Nation; and the season ending injury to the man known as “Dok”, that was bound to change sooner rather than later. Duke, Michigan, Tennessee, and Virginia all went undefeated in the first week […]
The last day of 2018 just so happened to fall on a Monday meaning we get to go into the new year with a fresh AP rankings list. While we know these week nine rankings, released on December 31, 2018 will be nearly unrecognizable by time March 17, 2019 rolls (Selection Sunday) rolls around; today’s […]
At this point in the season we’re just over a month into the 2018-19 NCAA Men’s Basketball season and only one thing is for certain; no team is a lock to win the National Championship in April. We’ve seen a number one team fall in the rankings while still being undefeated, two number one teams […]
It feels like every other month now that we’re hearing of a new scandal involving NCAA athletics. For the most part we get the explanation that the school will conduct a “third-party” investigation resulting in a few fall-men losing their jobs, and business goes on as usual. Except there in lies the issue; with the […]
Friday night’s NCAA Women’s Final Four games were the best pair National Semifinals game of all time, men or women. PLOT TWIST: Women’s college basketball in general owns the men’s game and it is past time to recognize it. After only losing three games in five seasons, including a 111 game win streak during that […]
Dynasties are terrible for sports, that is unless you are a fan of one of those dynasties. If you don’t believe it look at social media during the UMBC upset over Virginia in relation to when the New England Patriots played in their eighth Super Bowl in the past 17 years back in February. The ratings […]