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The NCAA Tournament Teams That Can Actually Pull Off Some Upsets
This is the second of three posts that will preview the NCAA tournament. This one is for people who want to know which sleeper teams have the best shot at making some noise. ...
Pentagon Warns Employees Not To Stream NCAA Tournament
Today is the day when you will get very little done at the office. In that it is much like every other day, except today you have the supremely valid excuse of NCAA tournament first-round games on all day. The military-industrial complex, which is no doubt rooting for Duke, knows what’s up....
Some Things To Know About The Best NCAA Tournament Teams
This is the first of three posts that will preview the NCAA tournament. This one is for people who just want to know which teams have the best shot at winning it all....
Show Us Your Bracket
It’s that time of the year! Time for the NCAA Tournament...March Madness...the Big Dance...college basketball. Millions of Americans are filling out their brackets. Are you among them? We really want to see your bracket....
Why Your Tourney Feel-Good Story Sucks: Northwestern
Some people are fans of the Northwestern Wildcats. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Northwestern Wildcats. This 2017 Deadspin tourney preview is for those in the latter group. This will be the only one. Don’t ask me to do the other 67 asshole teams....
New Orleans Player Chokes Teammate, Gets Benched
UNO lost by one (which I swear is not intended as a pun) in their NCAA Tournament play-in matchup against Mount St. Mary’s, and there were precisely two highlights, both involving New Orleans’s junior forward Travin Thibodeaux....
Here Is The Women's NCAA Tournament Bracket
The women’s NCAA tournament bracket is set. Here’s a printable PDF for you to download....
Jim Boeheim Says Selection Committee Paid Too Much Attention To Syracuse's Losses
As holistic as the NCAA Tournament selection process is supposed to be, the committee members are as susceptible as anyone to conventional wisdom. Jim Boeheim and Syracuse learned this the hard way: If you’re a bubble team, it helps not to have a soundbite-length knock like “2-11 away from home” on ...
NCAA Tournament Bracket PDF: Download It Here<em></em>
The NCAA Tournament bracket has arrived. Here’s a printable PDF for you to download....
Please Leak The NCAA Tournament Bracket
On Sunday, the NCAA and CBS plan to inflict 90 minutes of advertisements and Charles Barkley on you, just so they can infrequently read aloud the names of some colleges. While you might be interested in the basketball games that result, you definitely don’t want to suffer the whole bloated spectacle...
Northern Kentucky Makes NCAA Tournament In First Season Of Eligibility
Northern Kentucky spent a good chunk of the 1990s and 2000s as a strong D-II power, making the D-II NCAA Tournament 12 times in 15 years, winning a bunch of conference and division titles, and playing for two national championships. The Norse started the transition to D-I during the 2012-13 season, ...
Saint Francis Beats Wagner On Off-Balance, Buzzer-Beating Three
Keith Braxton heaved a heavily-contested, desperation three and found the basket as his Saint Francis Red Flash squad knocked off Wagner in the NEC semifinals....
Here's A Fantastic New Angle Of Kris Jenkins's Tournament-Winning Buzzer-Beater
A nice reader sends us this amazing shot of Villanova forward Kris Jenkins’s game-winning buzzer-beater from the end of the NCAA championship game. We’ve all seen this shot from a dozen or so angles, but I don’t think this one has been out there yet....
Almost Literal Babies Console Tar Heels After NCAA Championship Game Loss
For an exercise in learning compassion, a Durham, N.C. transitional kindergarten teacher had her class write letters to members of the North Carolina men’s basketball team, who lost the national championship in spectacular fashion. A good idea for a lesson, but more importantly, The News & Observer ...
Jay Wright Barely Reacted To Villanova's Buzzer-Beater
When Kris Jenkins hit his buzzer-beating three, everybody lost it. Villanova dogpiled on the court, fans in Houston screamed, people in bars across America went crazy, and even Charles Barkley jumped for joy....
It Looks Like Someone Slugged UNC's Mascot After The Championship-Winning Shot
If things weren’t bad enough for the North Carolina mascot after Kris Jenkins stole Tar Heels fans’ hearts, it appears Rameses got decked in the aftermatch. Here’s a pair of video angles—one from CBS’s Seth Davis—that show the mascot getting into some sort of tussle after the shot went in....
Here's Every Angle And Every Call Of Villanova's NCAA Tournament-Winning Buzzer-Beater
Villanova closed out the college basketball season with one of the most memorable finishes in history when Kris Jenkins hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer to down North Carolina. Here’s that legendary shot as called by announcers around the world:...