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Michigan's Offense Just Showed Up, And Everyone Should Be Scared
They didn’t show it for the first 79 minutes and 57 seconds of this NCAA Tournament, but this year’s Michigan basketball team can be pure, unstoppable adrenaline when they’re at their best. And oh my god, that’s what the Wolverines were tonight in their 99-72 win over Texas A&M....
Loyola-Chicago Wins Third Straight Thriller To Advance To Elite Eight
For the third time in three games, Loyola used a last-second jumper to continue its miracle tournament run and advance to the Elite Eight, with Marques Townes providing the heroics this time around....
Wichita State Did The Right Thing For Alex Lomax
I’ve got a treat today: a rare story in which a college program isn’t trying to totally dick over a player who wants to transfer....
Sean Miller Says He's Not Yet Desperate Enough To Go To Pitt
March has not been kind to Sean Miller. The Arizona men’s college basketball coach—who may or may not have been caught on an FBI wiretap arranging to pay DeAndre Ayton $100K—has no recruits coming to Tucson next year, and his squad vacated their bowels against 13-seed Buffalo in the first round of t...
"Have Mercy!" Graceland Wins NAIA Championship At The Buzzer
This part of the NCAA tournament is always the toughest—after four straight days of non-stop basketball, buzzer-beaters, and cutting-edge men’s fashion, you, the college basketball fan, is expected to quit cold turkey at sit at home in reflection for 72 hours. It’s downright cruel, but worry not: Gr...
This College Hoops Team Has 100 Straight Losses, But Who's Counting?
Of course Anthony Vallejo knew about The Streak. He wasn’t overly concerned about it when he enrolled at St. Louis College of Pharmacy this past fall, but, during his recruitment, the 6-foot-5 guard did ask head coach Danny Brown why the team hadn’t won a game since November 2014....
Confederate Army No Longer The Only Thing Ole Miss Glorifies After Coach Vows To Respect American Flag And National Anthem
Kermit Davis, the new head coach of a college basketball team with a mascot named after confederate secessionists who wanted to destroy the union of American states, has vowed his team will respect the flag and the national anthem of the United States of America....
Bob Huggins Met Dan D'Antoni In A Battle For The Future Of Men's Fashion
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice appeared at Sunday night’s NCAA Tournament game between West Virginia and Marshall wearing a suit that was both deeply and intentionally unfortunate. Justice is a Marshall University graduate—his wife and daughter are, as well—and, if you’re just joining us, a West...
Nevada Storms Back From 22-Point Deficit To Upset Cincinnati And Move On To Sweet 16
Just two days after Nevada’s Caleb Martin lost his damn mind in overtime to beat Texas, teammate Josh Hall floated a ball over the head of Cincinnati’s Kyle Washington to give the Wolf Pack their first and only lead of the game and send them on to the Sweet 16....
Syracuse's Defense Might Just Be Enough, Even Against Duke
Michigan State, a team that lost exactly four games all season before the NCAA tournament, is now on its way home thanks to the fact Tom Izzo could not maneuver past a zone. That it was the zone of a team that barely squeaked into the tournament makes it embarrassing; that the zone belongs to Syracu...
Isaac Haas's Baackup Maatt Haarms Is The Good Haair Maan
The Boilermakers overcame the absence of Isaac Haas due to an elbow fracture to hang on against 10th-seed Butler Sunday afternoon, utilizing 7-foot-3 backup big man Matt Haarms as a fill-in starter. And Haarms, you may have noticed, has quite the ‘do, and it requires quite a lot of attention, even d...
Michigan's Miracle Victory Cost The Utter Devastation Of Houston's Devin Davis
Before Jordan Poole sank his amazing buzzer-beating three to bring Michigan from behind to beat Houston, Cougars senior Devin Davis was at the line with four seconds on the clock and his team up two points. A make would’ve meant Michigan could do no better than force overtime; two makes would’ve ice...
Nevada’s Eric Musselman On Personal Hydration And His Need To Pee: “It’s Been A Great Concern Of Mine”<em></em>
Nevada head coach Eric Musselman—the man TBS cameras caught being extremely fucking jacked about his team’s first-round win—might just be the most honest coach in this entire tournament....
Buffalo Basketball Is A Goddamn Juggernaut
In their two first-round games of their respective NCAA tournaments, the Buffalo Bulls men’s and women’s basketball teams have both just completely destroyed heavily favored competition, by a combined total of 191-147. First, the men took out four-seed Arizona on Thursday, then today, the women crus...
This Quinnipiac Possession Is Beautiful Chaos
The 86-72 final score in Quinnipiac’s first-round victory over Miami (FL) belies what was actually a tense, back-and-forth game that didn’t get out-of-hand until a huge fourth quarter Quinnipac run. If you could distill all of its fun unpredictability into one possession, it would be this lead-takin...
Alabama Is Dead And Mikal Bridges Killed Them
Employing a merciless onslaught of Mikal Bridges three-pointers and suffocating defense, Villanova turned a five-point halftime lead into a 25-point advantage in just six minutes of second half play, sending Alabama home in pieces in the process. ...
UConn Scored 94 Points In One Mind-Blowing Half
If a mercy rule is ever created for college basketball, it should be called the Geno Auriemma rule. Auriemma’s UConn Huskies dynasty hit new heights this afternoon, beating St. Francis, a 16 seed from Pennsylvania, 140-52 in their opening game of the NCAA Tournament. Somehow, that 88-point victory d...
UMBC Beats Virginia: A Schadenfreude Gallery<em></em>
We’re still recovering from the disbelief of last night’s historic 16-over-1 upset of Virginia at the hands of Maryland-Baltimore County. As is tradition, here is your gallery of sad Virginia fans....
Virginia Was Built To Lose Like This
If the impossible was ever going to become possible, it was going to happen against a team like Virginia. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County didn’t pull off the greatest upset in college basketball history just by playing the most perfect game a 16-seed has ever played against a one-seed (...