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Staggering Intensity: A Night To Remember

It was a night that college basketball fans had waited for all week… and feared as well. Not allowing for the lengths of the two early games on Friday (Tennessee-Michigan and Connecticut-Iowa State), the tentative tip times for Kentucky-Louisville and Michigan State-Virginia were 9:45 p.m. and 9:57 p.m. Eastern. That’s a 12-minute stagger, which is […]

The Side Of Fortune: Michigan Earned It

The final 32 seconds of Friday night’s Midwest Regional semifinal between the Michigan Wolverines and the Tennessee Volunteers just kept spinning sideways. When the spinning stopped, Michigan was able to say that its first 37 minutes of quality were not undone by the final three. The Wolverines gained the kind of win that, in the […]

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The last lesson for Russ Smith

For Louisville, the world revolves around Russ Smith. He is the point guard, sure, that is part of the job description, and on a pressing team that makes things all the more important as the main defender on the opponent’s primary ballhandler. Rick Pitino clearly puts a lot and expects a lot from his senior […]

A World Of Expectations

Life isn’t fair. Sports are often cruel. Public verdicts can and do carry a finality that doesn’t allow for rationalization or the measured acceptance expressed in the statement, “Well, we still had a really good season in spite of…” No, on Saturday, March 29, 2014, the Florida Gators will just have to take on the […]

So this guy showed up in the #Badgers locker room after the game & was mugging with Coach Ryan. @AaronRodgers12 pic.twitter.com/RhPtOa0tCK — Wisconsin Basketball (@BadgerMBB) March 28, 2014

Wisconsin-Baylor: The Shedding Of Reputations

In a one-way-traffic mismatch that never pointed to any remote hint of parity, it’s hard to write about the particulars of combat, such as they were. The Baylor Bears were as flat as tortillas in Anaheim, Calif., while the Wisconsin Badgers blended crisp execution with productive thrusts of energy on the glass. Baylor’s zone defense […]

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