One year after arguably the most blue-blooded Final Four of all time, the 2023 men’s NCAA Tournament national semifinal slate looks uniquely green. The four-team field includes three first-time participants (Florida Atlantic Owls, San Diego State Aztecs and Miami Hurricanes) and a blue blood-lite program (Connecticut Huskies) that is making its first trip to the […]
Matt Araiza’s favorite punt of the season was an 81-yard boomer. It wasn’t just the distance that the San Diego State junior enjoyed, but what it did to the punt returner. “It was a moonshot,” Araiza said. “You could see on the film he basically looked like he had never seen anything like that before. […]
Glance at the top of Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted efficiency rankings, and the 2019-20 men’s college basketball season might not seem so weird. Kansas at No. 1? That’s not new. Gonzaga second? We’ve seen it before. Duke is No. 5, Michigan State is No. 7, Ohio State is No. 8 and Louisville is No. 9. Seems […]
The men’s college basketball season started off strange, with a November full of unranked teams taking down top-10 favorites. Then schools outside the typical blue bloods took up residence in the polls. Now, with Selection Sunday only five weeks away, the season is barreling toward a chaotic finish. Nobody has busted any brackets yet, but […]
In the 2010s, the title of “last remaining unbeaten team of the college basketball season” went to Kentucky (twice), Ohio State, Murray State, Michigan, Wichita State, Southern Methodist, Gonzaga, Arizona State and Virginia. It’s a peculiar list of teams. One (Virginia in 2019) won the national championship. Another (Arizona State in 2018) lost in the […]