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Asshole Kentucky Fans Are Still Harassing And Threatening Elite Eight Referee

It’s been 10 days now, and some Kentucky fans, when not shoveling out their overflowing diapers, are still making harassing phone calls to and trying to sink the business of longtime referee John Higgins....

North Carolina Takes Down Gonzaga To Win Sixth National Championship

After 40 tense, often ugly minutes of basketball, North Carolina defeated Gonzaga, 71-65, to win another national championship, their first since 2009. The game featured 44 fouls, a combined field goal percentage of 34.8, and a series of inexplicable late referee interventions. At one point, Gonzaga...

Dave Bliss Resigns In Disgrace After Baylor Murder Scandal Doc Airs

Southwestern Christian University men’s basketball coach Dave Bliss announced his resignation this evening just a few days after Showtime premiered a documentary on the murder of former Baylor player Patrick Dennehy by then-teammate Carlton Dotson in 2003. Bliss was the Bears’ coach at the time, and...

I'm So Glad Gonzaga Fouled With A Three-Point Lead

Thank you, Gonzaga. It was as if you read my angst-riddled mind on Saturday night....

Report: Georgetown Hires Patrick Ewing As<em></em> Next Head Coach

After canning John Thompson III, Georgetown has found its replacement. According to ESPN 980, the Hoyas have decided to hire Charlotte Hornets assistant and former Georgetown and Knicks legend Patrick Ewing as their new head coach. ...

Jordan Bell: "This Is Going To Hurt Forever"

Any March Madness game decided in the final seconds is going to bring reactions of equal strength but opposite emotion, with one on the losing side that’s often hard to watch. Last week, it was De’Aaron Fox of Kentucky, and last night, it was Jordan Bell of Oregon....

Apparel Company Picks Stupid Fight With Law Firm Over Dumb Grayson Allen Tripping T-Shirt

Smack Apparel—the brilliant minds behind this t-shirt and others of its ilk—has decided to say some very dumb stuff to defend an equally dumb shirt about Grayson Allen’s tripping tendencies. ...

Geno Auriemma On Decrease In Female Basketball Coaches: Ladies Just Don't Want To Coach, Duh [Updated]

The number of female coaches at women’s basketball programs has been decreasing in recent years, just as has been the case for women’s sports at large over the past several decades. While 63 percent of women’s basketball teams had female coaches in 2007-08, that figure has now fallen to 56 percent l...

LaVar Ball Is A Great Showman And An Unabashed Dickhead

LaVar Ball is, to put it lightly, a lot to deal with. He’s an insane shit-talker, a genius marketer, and a shrewd businessman who has done a truly admirable job of promoting his children while sidestepping the NCAA’s bullshit amateurism rules. He’s also, plainly, a dickhead....

Bad Kentucky Fans Flood Referee's Business With Negative Reviews

As sports fans have come to find out over the years, many officials that work the NCAA regular season and postseason tournaments, like their NBA and NFL counterparts, are not solely referees. Outside of their duties on the court, the vast majority rely careers in other fields to make a living. Unles...

De'Aaron Fox Took That One Hard

The thing about a game-winning buzzer-beater is that for all the elation it brings to the winning side, an equal amount of despair can be found in the losing locker room. As evidence, here is Kentucky point guard De’Aaron Fox speaking to reporters just after UNC’s Luke Maye ended his season:...

Those Were A Very Rough Few Seconds For Kentucky Fans

UNC-Kentucky was a keeper, a big-name showdown in a tournament dominated by new faces, and a thrilling finish in a month nearly devoid of buzzer-beaters. Malik Monk’s game-tying three with 7.2 seconds remaining was met by Luke Maye’s winner with 0.3 left, and as you can imagine, it was quite the emo...

Trolled By The Cops

Gonzaga's Jordan Mathews Once Hooped It Up On <i>Teletubbies</i>

Before Jordan Mathews was a basketball player on Gonzaga, he was a slightly smaller basketball player on the children’s show Teletubbies. There he is, practicing with his dad Phil, former coach of the San Francisco Dons and current coach of Riverside City College. Jordan’s shooting percentage wasn’t...

There's No Stopping Trevon Bluiett

“We could not guard them,” said Arizona head coach Sean Miller after his second-seeded Wildcats were upset by No. 11 Xavier last night. One imagines that he was talking specifically about Xavier junior guard Trevon Bluiett....

Gonzaga's Jordan Mathews Hit A Hero Three And WVU Responded By Crapping Themselves

Gonzaga beat West Virginia tonight, 61-58, to advance to the Elite Eight, thanks to a clutch three-pointer from Jordan Mathews and several duds from WVU’s Jevon Carter on the other end....

Pat Kelsey Ditches UMass Job Half An Hour Before Introductory Press Conference

Winthrop coach Pat Kelsey led his team to a Big South championship and an NCAA tournament appearance this season, and even though they lost in the first round, it was a successful campaign for the Eagles. As the college basketball coaching rodeo whirls to life and bushels of schools look for new fac...

The Sweet 16 Teams That Are Worth Rooting For

Despite what ESPN and the like would have you think, there are no Cinderellas left in this year’s NCAA tournament—the real Cinderellas were offed by programs designed to chew up teams with limited talent and depth. ...

I Can't Believe Georgetown Actually Fired John Thompson III<em></em>

After two consecutive losing seasons, public calls for his dismissal, and multiple player transfers and early departures, Georgetown has fired John Thompson III after 13 seasons. ...

Report: Oklahoma State To Interview... Doug Gottlieb?

According to a report from ESPN, soon-to-be FOX Sports radio personality and serial deleter of bad tweets Doug Gottlieb got the call from Oklahoma State to interview for the school’s men’s basketball head coach opening. ...