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Which Division I programs have never appeared in an NCAA Tournament from the get-go?
Most teams have never won an NCAA title, either in the modern era or in old-timey cager days. That’s just a sad fact of haves and have-nots. But most teams can at least say they had a chance to win one. Even if it’s like a Dumb & Dumber “chance.” Then there are four serious have-nots out there who h...
What are the lowest-seeded teams to win an NCAA Tournament?
Oh, sure, everyone loves a good Cinderella run. And if you’re like me and take the NCAA Tournament, and its history, seriously (you are reading this) you can no doubt rattle off the biggest underdogs to crash a Final Four, like Loyola and George Mason....
Watch in awe as Virginia State's president cooks up a student like Thanksgiving mac and cheese
If you talk to anyone who went to an HBCU, they will tell you that it is a completely unique college experience. There are things that happen on these campuses that secondhand accounts won’t ever do justice....
The winningest programs that never won a championship
This hasn’t been the best year for college basketball’s blue bloods. Kentucky had its first losing record since 1989. Duke is missing the NCAA field for the first time since 1995. North Carolina has been unranked all year, and the only reason Kansas has avoided a similar fate is how weak the Big 12 ...
Deadspin Wayback Machine: Norfolk State reps all HBCUs, CJ McCollum makes Duke fans cry
They say time heals all wounds but even after nine years, I know Duke and Missouri fans are still salty after becoming victims to some of the biggest upsets in tournament history on the same day....
The best national champion teams of the 2000s
As the NCAA Tournament returns next week after missing a year due to COVID-19, one of the conversations that have been hovering over the sport is when will the NBA get rid of the “one-and-done” rule....
Geno Auriemma tests positive for COVID, will miss first round of tournament
Hours before the Women’s Basketball selection show, UConn announced that head coach Geno Auriemma tested positive for COVID-19. According to the school, the coach received a positive test result on Sunday. As far as we know, he did not come into contact with anyone since Friday, March 12. All Tier I...
Upsets, trendy faves, arguments against Gonzaga, and your champ will be...
If you’re at all serious about it, you’ve probably taken your first stab at filling out a bracket by now. If you were as serious ludicrous as I am about it, you’d have done it in real time as it was announced. I’d hear Greg Gumbel say, “Now ... the 15 seed in the West…” and immediately see an entire...
Getting fired is sure to induce March Madness of a sort
It’s March Madness for coaches, too....
Which football powerhouse could cut down nets at the Final Four?
The Madness is finally back, and the matchups are finally set for what will be one of the strangest NCAA tournaments in recent history. Not only will COVID-19 likely have an impact on the games within the Indiana “bubble,” but this year we are missing some of the most storied programs in all of coll...
Rick Pitino and Will Wade in the NCAA Tournament proves the FBI’s college basketball probe was a joke
Almost four years ago, the FBI dropped a bomb on college basketball. It turned out to be more like a janky firecracker....
The 10 best men’s college basketball national champions from 1990-1999
If you lived through the ‘90s then you understand just how important and historic that decade was. And if you didn’t, someone who did has probably tried to explain it to you over, and over, and over again....
March Madness, the NCAA’s biggest moneymaker, is back
You know that saying about how you should never put all your eggs in one basket? Well, that’s the only way the NCAA knows how to operate.....
Bill Walton ignores game to break down matchup between actual buffaloes, beavers
Bill Walton wants you to know he’s smoked weed before. It’s a shocking development, I know....
Unreal old-school Georgetown title is perfect way to usher out antediluvian, boring-ass Big East logo
Updated, March 13, 2021 at 8:40 p.m.: I need to get something stupid off my chest. It’s been bugging me for years. And the unlikely title won tonight by Coach Paaaaatrick Ewing and No. 8 seed Georgetown, repping the old school Big East, over the more new-school, reshuffled conference squad Creighto...
Virginia’s Reece Beekman scores his only points of the game on buzzer beater
The March shenanigans are already underway....
Kentucky puts Big Blue nation out of its misery with SEC Tourney loss
Mississippi State ended Big Blue nation’s hope of a tourney run this season after Iverson Molinar hit two clutch free throws to give the Bulldogs the 74-73 win over Kentucky....
Duke player tests positive for COVID, knocking them out of ACC Tournament
On the one-year anniversary of Rudy Gobert testing positive for COVID-19, which led to a suspension of the 2019-20 NBA season, we were reminded this morning that we’re still in this same nationwide pandemic....
Will the Big Ten’s 21-year national title drought end next month?
On April 3, the national championship trophy inside of the Breslin Center at Michigan State University will be old enough to drink. When that day arrives in three weeks, it will mark 21 years since the Spartans, led by Mateen Cleaves, won their last national title....