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Storming The Floor looks at last night's Sweet 16 action.
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Storming The Floor looks at last night's Sweet 16 action.
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Storming The Floor looks at last night's Sweet 16 action.
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There's something we absolutely love about this picture. No matter how well your team's doing, no matter how much fun your friends are having at the game, no matter how young you are and no matter how full of possibilities the planet might seem ... sometimes, when you're having a bad day, you're having a bad day. More »
The One Lonely UCLA Fan
There's something we absolutely love about this picture. No matter how well your team's doing, no matter how much fun your friends are having at the game, no matter how young you are and no matter how full of possibilities the planet might seem ... sometimes, when you're having a bad day, you're having a bad day. More »
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Sweet 16 Pants Party: Xavier Vs. West Virginia
Xavier Musketeers (29-6) vs. West Virginia Mountaineers (26-10)When: Tonight, 7:10 p.m.
Where: Phoenix More »
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STF's West Regional Preview
Now that we are down to just sixteen teams, STF will profile each Regional lineup to see how we got here, what the Sweet 16 really means to each participating school, and who has the best chance to advance to San Antonio. The first of two today, here's the West. More »
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We had no idea there were so many Texas A&M basketball fans out there, but boy, has our inbox been full with people sending us the above photo. Yeah: That kind of looks like a foul. More »
UCLA's Non-Foul, And Huggy Bear Sober In The Sweet 16
We had no idea there were so many Texas A&M basketball fans out there, but boy, has our inbox been full with people sending us the above photo. Yeah: That kind of looks like a foul. More »
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A Look At The First Three NCAA Tourney Games
Storming The Floor wraps up the first three games, the ones we were stupidly live blogging even though you couldn't see any of it.
#3 Xavier 73, #14 Georgia 61. This was the only exciting game of the first session. Georgia brought the energy early, as Sundiata Gaines and Terrance Woodbury led the Bulldogs to an eleven point lead early in the second half. But the Musketeers clamped down on defense, and went on a 18-3 run in the second half to take control of the game. A few late missed shots, free throws and turnovers sealed Georgia's fate. It's a shame really, as we will no longer be graced by Dennis Felton's sense of style. Xavier survives, and will play the Purdue/Baylor winner next.
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After our cheap, quick-hit, easy looks at each bracket, the gang at Storming The Floor take considerably closer looks, game-by-game. Here's the West Regional preview, the last of the four. More »
Storming The Floor's West Region Preview
After our cheap, quick-hit, easy looks at each bracket, the gang at Storming The Floor take considerably closer looks, game-by-game. Here's the West Regional preview, the last of the four. More »
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NCAA Pants Party: Xavier Vs. Georgia
Xavier Musketeers (27-6) vs. Georgia Bulldogs (17-16)When: Thursday, 12:25 p.m.
Where: Washington, D.C. More »
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Xavier Musketeers
1. Coaches Corner. Xavier has done an excellent job over the past 20+ years finding capable coaches that continue to advance the program to higher levels. From Pete Gillen to the late great Skip Prosser to Thad Matta to Sean Miller, each coach has brought his own style to Xavier and has been able to find success. Now in his third season, Sean Miller has lead Xavier to its best regular season in school history. You would think by now that people would know Sean Miller because of his coaching resume, but still many people know him because of his appearance on David Letterman as a kid to show off his dribbling skills or perhaps because he knows how to teach offensive improvement. Most likely though, you know him because he was a key component in the most famous dunk in college basketball history. More »
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Rough Night For Virginia
Jonah Keri writes the College Basketball Closer (more or less) daily. E-mail your questions, concerns or Clarence Ceasar-related memories to jonahkeri@gmail.com.
In yesterday's edition of the Closer, I ranted about referees who call too many charging fouls, and players taking full advantage with their Flops Across America tour. Last night, I came off the bench for my rec league team, scrambling to the gym straight from the airport.
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Xavier Fans Haven't Forgiven Greg Oden
If you were wondering whether or not Xavier fans had gotten over that whole Greg Oden pounding a guy to the floor business, the guy who runs the blog Free Xavier makes it clear that, uh, they're not. More »
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Open Thread: Xavier vs. Ohio State
I don't know why the NCAA always does this, but every year on the third day of the tournament, they have one game on by its lonesome in the 1:00 p.m. slot... and then they triple us up at around 5:45. More »
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NCAA Pants Party: BYU Vs. Xavier
Brigham Young Cougars (25-8) vs. Xavier Musketeers (24-8)When: Thursday, 9:40 p.m.
Where: Lexington More »
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Xavier Musketeers
1. Can't touch this! Junior guard Stanley Burrell is the second leading scorer for the Musketeers. No, not that Stanley Burrell!. The Xavier student section had nicknamed him "The Hammer" before he even set foot on campus. More »
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NCAA Pants Party: Gonzaga Vs. Xavier
Gonzaga Bulldogs (27-3) vs. Xavier Musketeers (21-10)
When: Thursday, 7:20 p.m.
Where: Salt Lake City More »
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2. Location, Location, Location. Boubacar Coly, a 6-foot-9 sophomore forward from Senegal, chose Xavier over the University of Miami, Mississippi, Richmond and Southern Methodist because at Xavier, the gym is the closest to the freshman dorms. "That's a good spot," Coly said in 2004. "At a lot of schools, the gym is far away. It's hard to get to the gym."
3. They've Got Teen Wolf. After the North Carolina State Wolfpack passed on him because the whole name thing would have been just be too weird, Xavier finally grabbed guard Johnny Wolf, a freshman from their own back yard — St. Xavier High in Cincinnati (at one time the two schools were on the same campus). As in the movie Teen Wolf, Johnny Wolf's dad was also a basketball star at his school — Marty Wolf (1977-79) is in the Xavier Athletic Hall of Fame in both basketball and tennis. — Rick Chandler
Xavier Musketeers
1. We're Pretty Sure Andre Smith Won't Attend Any Games This Week. Smith, who played for the Musketeers in 1993-94, was sentenced recently to 10 years in prison for the beating death of his neighbor with a Russian machete. Smith, 30, admitted hitting Maxim Dudinovin. Smith is the son of 1970's Cleveland Cavaliers star Bingo Smith.2. Location, Location, Location. Boubacar Coly, a 6-foot-9 sophomore forward from Senegal, chose Xavier over the University of Miami, Mississippi, Richmond and Southern Methodist because at Xavier, the gym is the closest to the freshman dorms. "That's a good spot," Coly said in 2004. "At a lot of schools, the gym is far away. It's hard to get to the gym."
3. They've Got Teen Wolf. After the North Carolina State Wolfpack passed on him because the whole name thing would have been just be too weird, Xavier finally grabbed guard Johnny Wolf, a freshman from their own back yard — St. Xavier High in Cincinnati (at one time the two schools were on the same campus). As in the movie Teen Wolf, Johnny Wolf's dad was also a basketball star at his school — Marty Wolf (1977-79) is in the Xavier Athletic Hall of Fame in both basketball and tennis. — Rick Chandler
