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Well, in just one week’s time, we’ve narrowed the field of 64 teams down to the final 16 contenders for college basketball’s National Championship. There have been some major surprises (UCLA, NC State) and some very predictable developments (Kentucky dominating). With the field getting trimmed down to four by the end of this weekend, it’s time we rank the remaining teams as to how likely they are to make the Final Four.     #16: West Virginia After holding off a quality Buffalo team in the Round of 64, theRead More

For the second consecutive season, the Baylor Bears have suffered heartbreak after having their best season in program history. After giving up a 20 point lead in the 4th quarter to Michigan State, the Bears enter the 2015 season as a long shot to replicate the past two seasons. Last season was most likely Baylor’s best shot at winning a bowl as big as the Cotton Bowl. They had it won. The trophy was theirs. But yet again, discipline came into play as the Bears made every possible mistake theyRead More

Art Briles is running something pretty special in Waco, Texas. Baylor football has been the laughing stock of the Big 12 pretty much since it’s inclusion in 1996. From 1996 to 2009, Baylor did not record a single winning record. In these 13 years, the Bears total record was 43-101 including an abysmal 14-85 in Big 12 play. Something changed after that. Since 2010, the Bears have been on a magical run with their four best seasons in school history. They have gone 36-16 over these four years including 22-13Read More

Ok, so let’s set the stage here.  According to the New York Times – possibly the most credible and infallible news source out there – the investigation of the rape charges involving Jameis Winston in December of 2012 basically didn’t happen, contrary to what the campus authorities led us to believe. Now in case you didn’t catch the sarcasm in that hyphened-out phrase, the New York Times is not always the most reliable source for fact-based news. However, the article that I read – and that you can go readRead More

I know that the actual season is pretty far off still, but I can’t stop thinking about it with all the spring football games going on ESPN and all the analyst buzz starting to pick up around who’s going to be the team to beat this next season.  Here are 5 questions that I’ve compiled to think about as we move closer and closer to the beginning of what should be a pretty interesting season of college football. 1. How will the implementation of the 4-team playoff change the game,Read More

After Kentucky’s loss to UCONN, the question remains – how many of their players will be back for next year? Among the list of colleges that have produced current and active NBA players, the University of Kentucky is #1 with a total of 22 players sent off to the pros. In the championship game vs. UCONN, they started 5 freshman. Their roster carries with it the potential for another great season next year…if their 5 to 7 best players return. SBNation and DraftExpress, however, have at least 3 of Kentucky’sRead More

I feel pretty damn good about myself. On Saturday, I went 2-for-2 picking the winners, and missed covering both games by half of a point in the Kentucky-Wisconsin nightcap. UConn blew by heavily-favored Florida, and Kentucky eked out a one-point thriller of a victory against Wisconsin. And while I might have picked the winners correctly in those two games, neither myself nor anyone else in their right mind had this matchup for the National Championship: 8-seed Kentucky versus 7-seed Connecticut; the sum of the two teams’ seeds, 15, is the highest inRead More

The Madness has subsided and we’re down to the Final Four challengers for that oh-so-elusive final clip in the annual “One Shining Moment” montage. Florida, the #1 overall seed, we certainly expected to be here. Wisconsin, the #2 seed in the West, isn’t much of a shocker. Kentucky, the #8 seed in the Midwest region is a bit of a surprise, but nobody doubted the talent on the team that was ranked #1 in the preseason. UConn, who was ranked as high as #10 in the nation during the regularRead More

Selections = made. Matchups = set. It’s time for the absolute BEST time of the year for any true sports fan: MARCH. F*CKING. MADNESS. Get ready for a wild two-plus weeks, folks, as this year is setting up to be one of the craziest in recent memory. Three of last year’s Final Four are in the same freaking region. Last year’s champs, Louisville, are somehow a 4-seed. Wichita State is the first team to enter the NCAA Tourney unbeaten since 1991…and not many people truly believe in them. There areRead More