May 24, 2013

College Basketball Bracket Prediction 2013: Michigan State makes its case as a No. 1 seed

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Kentucky will have to rebound from a 30-point loss to Tennessee without injured star Nerlens Noel in order to make the NCAA tournament field.(Photo: Kim Klement, USA TODAY Sports) Story Highlights An 88-58 loss to Tennessee knocked Kentucky out of Monday’s NCAA tournament bracket projection It remains to be seen just how capable John Calipari’s [...]

College Football: Commissioners reach consensus on playoff featuring top four teams

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CHICAGO (AP) — The BCS commissioners are backing a playoff plan with the sites for the national semifinals rotating among the major bowl games and a selection committee picking the teams. The plan will be presented to university presidents next week for approval. Once the presidents sign off — and that seems likely — major [...]

College Football: Outdated and unpopular, BCS finally embraces playoff plan

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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — We gather here today to pay our respects to a fallen regime. The two-team BCS National Championship Game, college football’s annually frustrating, fascinating and infuriating culmination, will soon cease to exist. Any lingering doubts were put to rest Thursday following three days of commissioner meetings here at the Westin Diplomat. Bill Hancock, [...]

March Madness begins: Teams of 68 / Brackets for Men and Women

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(PhatzRadio / SI) — The madness in March Madness began before the brackets even came out. Kentucky, Syracuse and North Carolina all earned top seeding for the NCAA tournament Sunday despite weekend losses that brought even more intrigue to the three-week, 67-game tournament. Men’s Brackets Women’s Bracket Michigan State earned the other No. 1 seed [...]

March Maddness – Sunday: Penn State’s weekend run might be Crimson Tide’s undoing

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(PhatzRadio/ SI) – The addition of three more at-large spots this year, combined with the absence of bid thieves, has conspired to keep the bubble exceptionally soft, which means a lot of teams with modest profiles getting in. The ordering of that final batch of bubble teams, though, has been extraordinarily difficult. Every school has [...]