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In College Basketball, The Rich Are Just Getting Richer—And Smarter
Hey, SportVU motion-tracking cameras are coming to college basketball. In fact, they're already there, the New York Times explains, in arenas at Duke, Louisville, and Marquette this season. This is good news for any number of nerdy, obsessive reasons, and laughable news because, once the technology ...
Shaka Smart-To-Marquette Reports Came From Student Journalist
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel now tells us Shaka Smart is not likely to take the head basketball coaching position at Marquette. Why, then, were TV stations in Milwaukee all breathlessly reporting the breaking news that he'd be the new leader of the Golden Eagles? A source inside one of those newsr...
Double Bird-Flipping Arkansas Fan Salvages A Forgettable Season
The Arkansas Razorbacks' season came to an end last night in the ghost brackets of the NIT, losing on the road to Cal. They weren't without their supporters, though; foul, throwback-wearing supporters in headbands who weren't afraid to flip some birds, at least....
Shaka Smart Not Actually Marquette's New Coach, Despite TV Reports
Here's a sampling of Milwaukee newscasts from this evening. They all assert that current VCU head basketball coach Shaka Smart is taking over for Buzz Williams at Marquette. One problem: that's not true. ...
Baylor Bears Celebrate Their Upset By Messing Up Craig Sager's Hair
Baylor destroyed Creighton in a 30-point blowout yesterday, and the six-seeded Bears celebrated their upset of the third-seeded Bluejays as all momentous occasions should be celebrated: by screwing up Craig Sager's hair-do. ...
Who Will Be The Bitchy Cinderella? Round 2 Of The Bitchy Bracket Begins
So the first round of the Bitchy Bracket is done, and we're ready to move on to the second round of voting. Before starting in on voting, though, let's take a brief look at the first-round results, which saw all sorts of touchy fanboys knocked off, including some that, honestly, deserved less respec...
More Cowbell!
We just couldn't get enough of Stanford's enthusiastic cowbell player, so we took things to their logical and cliched conclusion with the help of Blue Öyster Cult....
She Didn't Care For What She Saw
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What Is The Nae Nae? A Necessary Explainer
Friday afternoon, Mercer beat Duke in the NCAA Tournament. More importantly, Bears guard Kevin Canevari was so excited about beating Duke that he started dancing, brilliantly. Some people asked what the fuck he was doing. Others in the know and/or on Black Twitter recognized it immediately: Canevari...
This Is Not Buzz Williams
The Buzz Williams era at Virginia Tech got off to an inauspicious start when Virginia Tech welcomed the former Marquette coach by appending a picture of his former assistant—another cherubic bald man—to Williams's entry in the staff directory....
Dude Has A Blast Distracting St. Louis At The Foul Line
I love this dude. He's just out there rockin' out and urging on the Wolfpack with his bleached blonde hair and dark shades. He's like a young Tawny Kitaen, only blonder and...dude-lier. ...
UNC Fan In Primo Seats Lifts Jersey To Display "Fuck Duke" T-Shirt
This is no usual videobomb. No, this Tar Heels fan came prepared, with a "Fuck Duke" shirt on just for that one moment when he'd be on display behind Marv Albert and Steve Kerr. Fine job, gent....
Mercer's Head Coach Gets VERY EXCITED; Player Robot Bombs Him
It's a rare occurrence for two fantastic things to happen in such a short period of time during a postgame interview. While Rachel Nichols was interviewing Mercer head coach Bob Hoffman following his team's stunning upset of Duke, Anthony White Jr. videobombed his coach with a perfect Chapelle-style...
The Plays That Power The Creighton Offense, The Best In A Decade
Since the beginning of the KenPom era in 2002-03—college basketball's own little Copernican Revolution, during which the laws of the universe finally began to piece themselves together—there hasn't been an offense as efficient or as skilled as the 2014 Creighton Bluejays. But exactly how it operate...
We Have Found The Worst March Madness Bracket Ever
The regular "bad bracket" is boring. There's not much fun in mocking someone else's picks. We're all throwing darts at the same dartboard, after all. But the bracket you see above, which was sent to us by a tipster who is presumably in the same tourney pool, is something else. It's an impressive hot...
NMSU Forces Overtime With Long-Range Three After SDSU Turnover
A wild night of overtimes got longer after New Mexico State scored five points in the final 15 seconds to force overtime against San Diego State....
Texas Beats Arizona State With Cameron Ridley Buzzer-Beater
Texas big man Cameron Ridley was in the right place at the right time as he gathered in Jonathan Holmes's attempted buzzer-beater and laid in one of his own to down the Arizona State Sun Devils 87-85 and move the Longhorns into the round of 32....
North Dakota State Upsets Oklahoma In OT Thanks To Bonkers, Tying Three
A night of overtimes continued as Lawrence Alexander hit a wild, off-balance three-pointer with twelve seconds remaining in regulation to force overtime against 5 seed Oklahoma and set up his North Dakota State Bison to win 80-75 after the extra period. The battle left NDSU coach Saul Phillips ready...