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During last year’s NCAA basketball tournament, fans around the country were treated to something almost as sweet as seeing their own teams win the national championship: watching Duke lose. In its opening game. To Lehigh. My schadenfreude was slightly different from everyone else’s, but it was schadenfreude, and this was new. I’d never been one of those Duke haters. In fact, I’d been a Duke fan for more...
While sitting on the bench during a demoralizing first-round NCAA tournament loss to Iowa State, UConn's Alex Oriakhi made a decision in March that triggered the most frenzied four-week period of his life. Right there, Oriakhi... more »
The days have long since passed when Gonzaga could lie in the weeds and surprise anybody in college basketball. But this year, it seems possible that the Zags, even ranked No. 21 by The Associated Press, might be a bit... more »
This is it. Today is the payoff for what feels like several solid years of campaigning, of antagonistic bumper stickers and special interest billboards, of commercials with solemn baritone narration and stacks of of... more »
John Calipari doesn't like to call it a system. It's more like a cycle anyway. Recruit. Win. Send to NBA. (Repeat.) For the third consecutive year, the Kentucky coach essentially is replacing his starting lineup with a cast of... more »
One year after he served as a ball boy for the game between Michigan State and North Carolina aboard the USS Carl Vinson last November, Kyle Kriebel still chuckles at the memory of his futile attempts to keep the floor... more »
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