Category: NCAA
Duke came into their second-round matchup with the Tennessee Volunteers as one of the hottest teams in the country. They rolled through the ACC tournament and dominated their first-round opponent, Oral Roberts. But Tennesse grabbed an early lead and Never looked back. The Volunteers Get Hot, Stay Hot From Deep Tennessee, the East’s fourth seed, […]
In a stunning upset at the NCAA tournament, the defending national champions, Kansas, were eliminated by Arkansas, the West region’s No. 8 seed. Despite leading by 12 points in the second half, the Jayhawks could not hold off the Razorbacks, who mounted an impressive comeback and secured a 72-71 victory in the second-round matchup in […]
With No. 15 seed Princeton punching their ticket to the sweet sixteen and national semifinal, it got us thinking. What is the furthest a 15-seed has advanced? Has a double-digit seed ever won a national title? Well, here are the answers to those questions. Since 1979, the NCAA Tournament committee has assigned each team a […]
No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson defeated No. 1 Purdue 63-58 as 23.5-point underdogs in Friday night’s first-round matchup of the 2023 NCAA Tournament. The Knights completed the largest upset during March Madness of the NCAA Tournament since the field expanded in 1985. The previous record was set by Norfolk State in 2012 for upsetting No. 2 […]
Watch senior forward Clifton Moore of No. 11 Providence shoot a rare free throw sitter during the first half of Friday’s first-round matchup against No. 6 Kentucky. This one-in-a-million miss will go down as one of the most incredible moments of the 2023 NCAA Tournament. During this year’s NCAA men’s tournament, fans have seen five […]
Tony Bennett, the University of Virginia’s (UVA) men’s basketball head coach, has recently faced some adversity in the NCAA Tournament. Hired by UVA in 2009 from Washington State, Bennett led the Cavaliers to the 2019 National Championship. However, since that victory, his teams have struggled to find success in the NCAA Tournament, leading to discontent […]
President Joe Biden filled out his March Madness bracket on Thursday for the 2023 NCAA Tournament, and it’s now ruined after No. 15 Princeton defeated No. 2 Arizona 59-55 in the first round. To add to that, the Commander in Chief was off on multiple games. Biden had the Wildcats winning the National Championship over […]
Day one of the first round of the 2023 March Madness tournament kicked off yesterday and we had some thrilling upsets. Furman, Princeton, and even Auburn had some big-time upsets to start a crazy tournament season. The #9 seed Tigers had a tough matchup vs the Iowa Hawkeyes. Auburn started off hot, but the Hawkeyes […]
Dereck Lively II of the No. 5 Duke Blue Devils is the third ACC player to record at least 10 rebounds and six blocks in an NCAA Tournament debut, joining UNC’s John Henson (2011) and Wake Forest’s Tim Duncan (1994). Thursday’s first round East Region matchup against No. 12 Oral Roberts was anything but competitive. […]
No. 2 Arizona lost 59-55 against No. 15 Princeton in an early first-round upset of the 2023 NCAA Tournament on Thursday, and the Wildcats’ defeat has knocked out 93% of perfect brackets in the ESPN Tournament Challenge. Counting all brackets across sites, just 0.12% are perfect after Princeton’s shocking win. About 20 million brackets were […]
