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B1G Disappointment: The teams that have won national titles since the Big Ten last cut down the netsFacebook hadn’t been invented yet, Zion Williamson didn’t exist, Mad Cow Disease was the “pandemic” of the time, and Y2K is what so many thought would be the end of modern civilization. The year 2000 feels like it was so long ago, but it feels even further away for Big Ten hoops fans. Twenty-three y...

The best sports calls of the 21st centuryIs there anything that defines a moment in sports history quite like the announcers’ call over the sounds of a raucous crowd and a celebrating team (and your own sobs)? Do you believe in miracles, the band is on the field, the Giants win the pennant, pretty much anything Jack Buck ever said — they’r...

This is why we watchIs there any greater thrill than a good old fashioned March buzzer beater? Single-elimination, do-or-die moment, clock racing to zero — living in that infinite moment, watching the ball arc its path through the endless stretch of air, the swish of the net, the eruption of cheers, the impossible sudd...

Duke? UNC? UConn? Ranking the best NCAA national champs over the past 20 years

Selection Sunday will be the first time we’ve been able to fill out a bracket in two years. A lot has changed since then, especially in college basketball, as it’s been as upside down as the rest of the world is. Juniors and seniors are the biggest draws this season, as only a few freshmen like Okla...

Ranking the greatest college basketball championship teams of the 2010s

There are a lot of words you could use to describe a college basketball season that has been wrecked by COVID-19, but the best one is “weird.” Besides the blue bloods of Duke and Kentucky missing the tournament, and North Carolina and Michigan State having subpar years with even lower seeds than usu...

Marcus Paige's Shot Deserved Better

A truly remarkable sports play can meet no crueler fate than to have its significance snuffed out by an even bigger play moments later. Marcus Paige’s game-tying three with four seconds left joins Tim Duncan’s prayer and Jermaine Kearse’s circus catch in the sad fraternity of indelible but ultimatel...

Villanova Wins National Championship On Buzzer-Beater

Villanova erased Marcus Paige’s heroism after Kris Jenkins hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to earn the Wildcats a national championship....

Marcus Paige Is College Basketball's Newest Little Badass

Despite all the good it offers, a college basketball season like the one we are currently enjoying—one that comes stocked with All-American talent and blue chip NBA prospects—can find itself lacking in the presence of a particular brand of collegiate star: the little guy who, despite his diminutive...