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NCAA Women's Basketball Officially Moves To Four 10-Minute Quarters
Women’s college basketball will look a lot different next year, as the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a number of changes to the sport. The biggest change is a move to four 10-minute quarters instead of two 20-minute halves. This necessitates a change to the foul rules:...
John Calipari To Colin Cowherd: "You Gotta Stop On John Wall"
Earlier today, Kentucky head coach John Calipari joined the ute-puking national embarrassment that is Colin Cowherd to talk basketball. But Coach Cal wasn’t going to hop off the air without giving ol’ Cowturd an earful regarding his constant heckling of John Wall....
Garrick Sherman Goes On Alcohol-Fueled Anti-NCAA Twitter Rant
Garrick Sherman played two years of college basketball at Michigan State, before transferring and playing his final two years at Notre Dame. He graduated in 2014, and now plays professionally for Dinamo Tbilsi in Georgia (the country). ...
Jalen Rose Calls Chris Webber "Delusional"
Four years ago ESPN released The Fab Five, a 30 for 30 documentary about the 1991 Michigan basketball recruiting class of Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson. The group reached the NCAA championship game in both their freshman and sophomore seasons but never won it al...
Mark Cuban Says College Basketball Is Hideous And Unwatchable
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban joins a growing chorus of those calling for major changes to the rules and strategies of college basketball, which—to his eye—is “uglier than ugly,” relying on a plodding, disjointed style that results in boring games and fails to prepare players for the NBA....
A Sense Of Where You Are
Oh, man, great job by The New Yorker making John McPhee's classic profile of Dollar Bill Bradley at Princeton available to us for free....
NCAA VP: Actually, Refs Did Have The Best Angle On Controversial Play
Yesterday, NCAA head of basketball officiating John Adams went on the radio and explained why officials failed to overturn an incorrect blown out-of-bounds call late during the NCAA title game: they never saw the crucial replay that showed a Duke player touching the ball last. But today Adams was c...
NCAA Officiating Head: Refs Never Saw Best Angle Of Controversial Play
To most of America, it sure as hell looked like the Wisconsin Badgers got hosed by a blown out-of-bounds call in the final minutes of last night’s championship game. It was hard to imagine how the referees could have looked at the same replay angle that we all saw at home during their review and st...
Dumb Shining Moment: The 2015 NCAA Tournament Lowlight Reel
The ball is tipped Away from the rim They call it goaltending Even though it wasn’t going in ...
Conan O'Brien Attempts To Improve UC Irvine's Anteater Mascot
Though we enjoy UC Irvine’s Peter the Anteater, Conan O’Brien believed the mascot could suck less—it can’t even do real pushups since the nose gets in the way—so he went to the school and provided some suggestions for a better one....
So, Who Was That Little Guy Who Saved Duke Last Night?
There is something undeniably Duke about a team that was carried all year by star freshmen Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, and Justise Winslow having its championship season saved by another freshman named Grayson. There was Grayson Allen, storming out of the anonymity that comes with a season full of DN...
Claire McCaskill Is Fighting The Wrong Battle
For some reason, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill felt the need to weigh in on Duke’s victory over Wisconsin in the NCAA title game: ...
Duke Beats Wisconsin For Fifth National Title
We got a competitive national championship game, but not the one that we expected. In Jahlil Okafor and Justise Winslow, Duke has two players that are expected to go in the top 5 of the upcoming draft. But neither could stay out of foul trouble—they both finished the game with four—and seven minute...
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This Is Your Moment In The Sun, Buddy
Just your average, everyday NCAA title game double bird....
This Is The Last Thing You See Before You Die
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Kentucky's Andrew Harrison On Frank Kaminsky: "Fuck That Nigga"
Kentucky’s Andrew Harrison is not a particularly big fan of Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky, and expressed that fact on a more-sensitive-than-he-thought mic during the postgame press conference. The full thought sounds like “Fuck that nigga, oh my god” to me. ...
