by Matt Zemek | Apr 5, 2015
We wrote about it multiple times this week — the memory of the 1991 Final Four in Indianapolis loomed over the heavyweight national semifinal on Saturday night between Wisconsin and Kentucky. Nearly a quarter of a century since Duke ruined UNLV’s unbeaten...
by Matt Zemek | Apr 4, 2015
Saturday evening in Indianapolis, the Road To The Final Four had already ended. The roads connecting college basketball’s past and present continued to flow. The direction of those roads led to Durham, not East Lansing. Mike Krzyzewski and Tom Izzo had met...
by Matt Zemek | Apr 2, 2015
When a fuel-containing object explodes, a burst of light and a wave of heat emerge from it. Such was the case on an otherwise-dull Wednesday afternoon. It was an afternoon bereft of a major sporting event in this down period before the Final Four, The Masters, the...
by Matt Zemek | Apr 2, 2015
At this time of the year, you will sometimes hear the question, “Should the Final Four be re-seeded?” Rather than launch into a sweeping denunciation or fervent defense of the idea, let’s take another route: Examine the history of the Final Four since the NCAA...
by Matt Zemek | Mar 31, 2015
The central and most defining feature of Mad Men — not just as a show in itself, but as a transformative and highly important program in the history of American television — is that it is complicated. Everything about Mad Men is complicated… even the aspects of...
