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UConn RA Will Not Tolerate Basketball Excitement On His Floor
Via Connecticut student Mike Mancini, what's purported to be an email some UConn students received from their floor's resident assistant ahead of tonight's National Championship game:...
The Fall Of Kevin Mackey, The NCAA Tournament's Junkie Cinderella
Originally published in the December 1992 edition of GQ. Reprinted with the author's permission. Annotations from the author (as told to Alex Belth) appear throughout the story....
What Will Aaron Harrison Do Tonight?
Kentucky guard Aaron Harrison has hit clutch shots in the Wildcats' last three games to help deliver them to tonight's national championship bout against UConn. The last two came in the games' final seconds, and bore such a remarkable similarity that we made a composite of them in the GIF you see he...
Dumb Shining Moment: Your 2014 NCAA Tournament Lowlight Reel
Fans around the country flock to their TVs for March Madness, a time when college basketball players inspire us with their NCAA Tournament heroics. Plenty of dumb things happen in between all those buzzer-beaters and spectacular dunks, though. This video features those dumb things....
Two Hours Of The Lexington Police Scanner After UK Wins, Set To Music
Kentucky's thrilling wins over Louisville, Michigan, and Wisconsin have delivered the Wildcats to tomorrow's NCAA national championship. They've also prompted UK students to engage in, ah, "civil disobedience."...
<em>SNL</em> Presents: "NCAA Tournament: Best Of The White Guys"
We only have one game left in this year's NCAA Tournament, and NBC gave those willing to suffer through an entire Saturday Night Live episode one bonus highlight reel, in an infomercial for "NCAA Tournament: Best Of The White Guys."...
Alex Poythress Gets Leg Tangled Up In Post-Game Celebration
Alex Poythress got his leg caught at the bottom of the post-game celebration on the court following Kentucky's win over Wisconsin. It looked kind of scary, what with him being stuck under his entire team, but hopefully it's a case of things looking worse than they actually are. ...
Aaron Harrison Strikes Again; Kentucky Goes To Final
Holy shit, Aaron Harrison. With about five seconds left, Harrison buried another huge three-pointer to give Kentucky a 74-73 lead and a spot in the NCAA title game. ...
Final Four Teamcasts Leave Viewers Confused, Enraged About "Bias"
Tonight's Final Four games were aired on TBS, with team-specific broadcasts on TNT and TruTV. This was explained to people for weeks, but it seems lots of them did not get the message—even with a large bug in the corner of the screen identifying the broadcasts as being oriented toward one of the two...
Killers Lead Singer Wears Sweet UNLV-Themed Jacket
The Killers, who are from Las Vegas, played whatever the concert at the Final Four is called and, at some point, lead Singer Brandon Flowers turned around and showed this pretty awesome tribute to UNLV on the back of his jacket. ...
Despite Slow Start, UConn Beats Top-Seeded Florida To Advance To Final
The last time Florida lost, it was to Connecticut on December 2, 2013. The Gators won their next 30 games until tonight—the last time they'll lose this season—which was, again, to UConn. Uconn beat Florida 63-53 on a night they went the first four minutes without scoring a point and found themselve...
Which Pundit Has The Worst Bracket Heading Into The Final Four?
As we count down to the Final Four this week, let's see which pundit's bracket is in the best shape. As a reminder, we are tracking 26 "experts" this year (from ESPN, Yahoo, SI, CBS Sports) as well as the president. To revisit our rankings after the first weekend, see our prior post....
ESPN College Hoops Writer Makes Terrible "Bold Predictions"
Last Wednesday, ESPN college basketball writer Myron Medcalf made "10 Bold Predictions" for the upcoming Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight. Now that the dust has settled, it's clear that Medcalf's predictions were indeed very bold, and also very wrong. Let's go through them one by one:...
Cop In Riot Gear Violently Blindsides Girl During Arizona Riots
While police dealt with disorderly Arizona students in Tucson, one video's surfaced of an incident away from the main activity. In the clip, a police officer in riot gear comes out of nowhere to check a girl into a bench, for no clear reason....
Kentucky Heads To The Final Four On Aaron Harrison's Game-Winning Three
Kentucky's Aaron Harrison sank the game-winning three with 2.6 seconds remaining to take down Michigan, 75-72 and send the Wildcats to the Final Four. Holy crap....
UConn Tumbles Into The Final Four
[Ryan Boatright takes a spill after scoring as UConn edged Michigan State 60-54 in a sloppy Elite Eight match. The Huskies are the first No. 7 seed to make the Final Four since tournament expansion in 1985. Photo by Frank Franklin II/AP]...
Gainesville TV Station Recreates NCAA Highlights To Beat Restrictions
Broadcast rules stipulate that non-CBS stations can't show March Madness highlights until the day after the game, so ABC affiliate WCJB in Gainesville recapped the Gators' win over Dayton with its own recreated footage. It does not disappoint....
Arizona Loses To Wisconsin; Students And Riot Police Face Off
Arizona lost 64-63 in overtime to the Wisconsin Badgers earlier tonight for a spot in the Final Four, and now the campus is kind of a shit show. Riot police were lining up in front of a University boulevard bar more than an hour before the game ended and when it did, things rapidly deteriorated. By ...
Michigan Flop Ruins An Otherwise Great Game
Last night against Michigan, Tennessee came all the way back from a 15-point deficit with 10 minutes left to be in a position to get jobbed in the final seconds. With 10 seconds left in the game, Tennessee trailed Michigan by only one, 72-71. That's when the Volunteers put the ball in Jarnell Stokes...
Kentucky Beats Louisville, Has Most Orderly Couch Fire Ever
In the early morning Saturday, a few hours after Kentucky stormed back to beat Louisville 74-69 and advance to the Elite Eight, we received this video. It appears to be a single couch burning in the middle of the street along with several—I'd say...15, 20?—revelers chatting around the blaze. With i...