NCAA

The NCAA basketball season is winding down, but this is the time of year all collegiate basketball fans wait for, Championship Week and the official start to March Madness. There are 33 NCAA Division I conferences, with all but the Ivy League holding a year-end tournament. Many finished up on Saturday, the rest will host…

Gonzaga University isn’t the typical NCAA powerhouse basketball team that people think about when they start putting thoughts into March Madness brackets, yet anyone who’s paid attention to collegiate basketball in the US has heard of them. They don’t have multiple Final Four appearances, they don’t have National Championship banners flying in the McCarthy Athletic…

The No. 4 Michigan Wolverines have been involved in the breaking of some of the longest streaks in college basketball this season. After running the table on their non-conference schedule and winning their first three Big Ten Conference games, the Maize and Blue traveled to Columbus, Ohio to take on Ohio State Jan. 13th armed…

With a 24-3 overall record, 12-2 in Big Ten Conference play, the University of Indiana Hoosiers came one first place vote shy of a unanimous No. 1 selection in the Associate Press NCAA Top 25 Poll released on Monday. They also took 28 of 31 first place votes in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll. Moving…

The University of Miami has never been ranked as high as No. 2 in the NCAA, so they no doubt have been feeling some extra pressure the last week. For a team that wasn’t in the Top 25 until Week 12 (of 16), to get to No. 2 as quickly as they did was nothing…

The Indiana Hoosiers were able to do something this week that no NCAA No. 1 team has done in a month, keep their No. 1 ranking. Despite losing to unranked Illinois on Thursday, they were able to pick up 26 first-place votes in the Associate Press Top 25 poll and 1,559 total votes to top…

It has been quite a few days for the Indiana Hoosiers head coach Tom Crean. On Saturday, Crean’s Hoosiers, at the time the No. 3 team in the NCAA, beat No. 1 Michigan 81:73. On Sunday Crean joined his family in New Orleans to watch his wife’s brothers, Jim and John Harbaugh, lead the teams…

It’s been a rough week for the NCAA Top 10 clubs as five have taken hits to their records, four to unranked teams. On Saturday it was a top down affair with No. 1 Michigan falling to No. 3 Indiana, No. 2 Kansas losing to Oklahoma St., No. 6 Syracuse dropping a Big East contest…

The Villanova Wildcats came into the week on a three-game losing streak and had an 11-7 overall record, 2-3 in the Big East. The had lost to Syracuse by 11 at Syracuse, lost by 15 at home against Pittsburg and fell to Providence on the road in an eight-day stretch. When Louisville came to town on Tues., Jan. 22, the ink was barely dry on the newly released Associated Press Top 25 Poll that was released on Monday that named the squad the No. 5 ranked team in the NCAA, down from No. 1 a week prior due to a 68:70 loss to Syracuse two days earlier. When they left town, the Cardinals had been handed their third loss of the season, a solid 73:64 defeat. On Saturday, Nova would face their second Top 5 ranked team when the same Orangemen of Syracuse that had knocked off Louisville a week earlier would travel to Philadelphia, PA and would also meet the same fate as Louisville, a 75:71 loss to the unranked Wildcats.