On the afternoon of Friday, March 12, few teams in men’s college basketball looked better than Michigan. The Wolverines, who had just won the Big Ten regular-season title, entered that day ranked second in Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted efficiency rankings and then delivered a confidence-renewing win over Maryland to open the conference tournament. Senior guard Eli […]
Florida State and Michigan are two of the most dependable names in men’s college basketball these days. Though both are traditional football powerhouses, each has seen far more recent success on the hardwood. Florida State is coming off of consecutive top-two conference finishes and has reached the second weekend of the Big Dance in three […]
In the coming days, one question may come up again and again: Are there other games in the Sweet 16? Or just UConn vs. Iowa, and more specifically, freshman phenom guards Paige Bueckers vs. Caitlin Clark? The hype around those two — obvious one-and-done candidates if the rules allowed, instead set to be fixtures for […]
There wasn’t much expected from the Pac-12 Conference this year when the men’s NCAA Tournament tipped off. The Conference of Champions hasn’t won a national title since 1997, representing the longest championship drought of any major conference. It didn’t appear that would change any time soon given that the Pac-12 didn’t boast a single team […]
On a court plastered with “MARCH MADNESS,” about 90 seconds into his first NCAA men’s tournament game, Max Abmas pulled up from the logo without hesitation. Oral Roberts’s star entered Friday as the nation’s leading scorer at 24.2 points per game. Surely, Ohio State knew to smother him at any opportunity. Abmas’s answer was to […]