With apologies to fans of Florida Atlantic, Miami and San Diego State, three-quarters of the 2023 men’s Final Four didn’t look like they belonged there. One year after we got four of the game’s preeminent programs, this year’s event welcomed three programs that entered March Madness with a higher combined seed total (19) than all-time […]
The 2023 men’s NCAA Tournament has transformed into a bloodletting exercise for the sport’s traditional powers. Of the 15 teams that claim at least two national championships, only eight qualified for the tournament at all, and only one advanced past the Sweet 16. No. 1 seed Kansas was upset by an Arkansas team that never […]
If you had envisioned a 2023 women’s NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 without Grace Berger of Indiana, Haley Jones of Stanford and Celeste Taylor of Duke, well, congratulations: You predicted the future better than almost anyone. But for the rest of us, it’s been a crazy tournament already, with massive swings in the odds and futures […]
One of the most tumultuous seasons in women’s basketball history is rolling toward a conclusion with the NCAA Tournament, beginning with a quartet of play-in games Wednesday and Thursday, and then the tournament proper on Friday. Get your brackets ready, prepare those notes, and dive into what should be a dramatic build to the Final […]
After the Connecticut women’s basketball team lost Paige Bueckers in December, and the Huskies returned to the court with a lackluster 44-point effort in a loss to an unranked Georgia Tech team, the Twitter obits proliferated. It seemed there was nothing left to do with this UConn team but bury it. A funny thing, though: […]