Posts Tagged ‘NCAA Tournament’
North Carolina ends Saint Peter’s run and sets up final four clash with arch-rival Duke
North Carolina has ended Saint Peter’s dance after a 69-49 win. The Saint Peter’s Peacocks were the story of the NCAA Tournament. That’s because they are the first 15 seed to reach the Elite Eight. The Peacocks, whose 10-game win streak ended, moved the ball well and got plenty of good looks over the first…
Read MoreSaint Peter’s shock Kentucky in first round of NCAA tournament
Saint Peter’s did the impossible. They beat the Kentucky Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Saint Peter’s wasn’t supposed to stand a chance against the Wildcats. Not a program from a school in Jersey City, New Jersey, with an enrollment of about 2,300 students, that plays in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference…
Read MoreGonzaga, Arizona, Kansas, Baylor named top seeds in NCAA men’s basketball tournament
Gonzaga received the top overall seed for the NCAA tournament, with Arizona, Kansas, and defending champion Baylor joining the Zags as No. 1s. The March Madness bracket came out Sunday for a tournament that begins with early-round games Tuesday and concludes with the Final Four in New Orleans on April 2. The championship game is…
Read MoreUCLA advances to Elite Eight
UCLA defeated the University of Alabama 88-78 in overtime on Sunday and reached the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight for the first time since 2008. For the Bruins, the storied program of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor), Bill Walton and legendary coach John Wooden decades ago, it was a huge upset. Eleventh-seeded UCLA knocked off the No.…
Read MoreGrand Canyon forward Oscar Frayer killed in auto crash
Grand Canyon University forward Oscar Frayer was killed in an automobile accident along with two others, including his older sister Andrea Moore, 28, on Tuesday, near Lodi, California. Frayer was 23. “We love O,” Grand Canyon coach Bryce Drew said in a news release. “He was the heartbeat of our team with his vibrant, energetic…
Read MoreOral Roberts reaches Sweet 16
Oral Roberts, a private evangelical university in Oklahoma, became the second 15th-seeded men’s Division I team in NCAA Tournament history to reach the Sweet 16. The Golden Eagles achieved the feat with an 81-78 upset victory over the seventh-seed University of Florida Gators on Sunday in Indianapolis. Florida Gulf Coast, in 2013, was the first…
Read MoreLoyola Chicago shocks No. 1 seed Illinois
Loyola Chicago led from start to finish and shocked the No. 1 seed University of Illinois, winning 71-58 in an NCAA Tournament second-round game on Sunday in Indianapolis. Cameron Krutwig sparked the eighth-seeded Ramblers (26-4) with 19 points and 12 rebounds. It was a classic case of a team’s plan working at or near perfection.…
Read MoreGonzaga University is No. 1 overall seed for NCAA Tournament
Unbeaten Gonzaga University is the No. 1 overall seed for the upcoming NCAA Tournament, and longtime coach Mark Few’s team will face the winner of Thursday’s Norfolk State-Appalachian State play-in game in the first round. Selection Sunday also revealed that Baylor, Illinois and Michigan are the other No. 1 seeds for the NCAA Tournament. See…
Read MoreKansas, Virginia, and Duke pull out of Tournament
A year to the day after COVID-19 brought the college basketball postseason to a halt, the pandemic continues to disrupt the sport, with three premier programs forced to abandon their conference tournaments because of positive coronavirus tests. No. 16 Virginia — the most recent national champion — and No. 11 Kansas were forced out of…
Read MoreNCAA Tournament Final Four is Set
And then there were four… Kansas and Villanova are advancing in the 2018 NCAA Tournament after wins against their respective opponents and head to the Final Four. They join Chicago-Loyola and Michigan who punched their tickets on March 24th. Loyola-Chicago continues on its amazing Cinderella run in the tournament with nothing to lose and everything…
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