Ncaa Basketball

Top 10 Potential Replacements For Tom Crean At Indiana

... step up into the Big Ten? This would be the home-run hire. Steve Alford. Obvious ties here. The New Castle, Ind., native led the Hoosiers to their last national championship in 1987 as a player, and he's building a winner at UCLA. In fact, Alford likely will address this question throughout the NCAA tournament. Alford's previous stint at Iowa ended with a resignation in 2006-07, but that's a distant memory. Reeling Alford from UCLA would be a power move that shows the Hoosiers mean business. Chances are the fans would love it, too. Brad Stevens. This would be more of a question of what Stevens wants. He took Butler to the Final Four twice before moving up to the NBA, and the Boston Celtics are Eastern Conference contenders this season. Indiana would have to corner Stevens into an offer he couldn't refuse, and even then, he might decide to stay in the NBA. MORE: March Madness' biggest first-round upsets. Archie Miller. Miller will be in the conversation with those three candidates, and he should be. Dayton reached the tournament the last four seasons, including a run to the Elite Eight in 2013-14. Miller also has Big Ten ties ...

Thursday Scores, Friday Schedule, Tip Times

... No. 12 Nevada. 12:15, CBS: No. 7 Michigan Wolverines vs. No. 10 Oklahoma State Cowboys. 12:40, tru TV: No. 3 Baylor Bears vs. No. 14 New Mexico State. 1:30, TNT: No. 8 Arkansas Razorbacks vs. No. 9 Seton Hall. 2:00, TBS: No. 3 Oregon Ducks vs. No. 14 Iona. Approx. 2:45, CBS: No. 2 Louisville Cardinals vs. No. 15 Jacksonville State. Approx. 3:10, tru TV: No. 6 SMU Mustangs vs. No. 11 USC. Approx. 4:00, TNT: No. 1 North Carolina Tar Heels vs. No. 16 Texas Southern. Approx. 4:30, TBS: No. 6 Creighton Bluejays vs. No. 11 Rhode Island. 6:50, TNT, No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks vs. No. 16 UC Davis. 7:10, CBS: No. 7 Dayton Flyers vs. No. 10 Wichita State. 7:20, TBS: No. 2 Duke Blue Devils vs. No. 15 Troy. 7:27, tru TV: No. 6 Cincinnati Bearcats vs. No. 11 Kansas State. Approx. 9:20, TNT: No. 8 Miami vs. No. 9 Michigan State. Approx. 9:40, CBS: No. 2 Kentucky Wildcats vs. No. 15 Northern Kentucky. Approx. 9:50, TBS: No. 7 South Carolina Gamecocks vs. No. 10 Marquette. Approx. 9:57, tru TV: No. 3 UCLA Bruins vs. No. 14 Kent State. ...

Tynice Martin Leads Wvu Women Into Ncaa Basketball Tournament

... College Park, Maryland. WVU (23-10), the No. 6 seed in the Bridgeport Region, will play 11 th-seeded Elon at 2:30 p.m. Friday. The game will be televised on ESPN 2. When WVU coach Mike Carey came to Martin with the news that she’d be a co-captain along with senior Lanay Montgomery and junior Chania Ray, she wasn’t sure if she was prepared to take on a role like that so soon. “It was kind of scary, because I felt like I wasn’t really ready for it,” she said. “I’m still learning and I feel you can’t tell people what to do if you can’t do it yourself.”. She was able to do plenty in her first season out of Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy in Georgia. Martin averaged 10.3 points as a freshman, and her 362 points and 140 field goals each ranked fifth best for a freshman in WVU program history. She was only the second player in program history to win a conference Freshman of the Year award, joining Meg Bulger, who won the 2004 Big East honor. Still, the jitters of youth affected Martin at the beginning of her new leadership position. “I wasn’t very vocal at first,” she said. “But when I felt more comfortable out there, it became easier.”. That growing ...

Maryland Basketball Fizzles Out In Ncaa Tournament Loss To Xavier

... without Melo Trimble, Terrapins have a nucleus to build on ]. Maryland began the second half much like it did a week ago against Northwestern in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals — with more offensive pop, enough to take control of a 46-40 lead on consecutive layups from Trimble and freshman Anthony Cowan Jr. But as in that loss to the Wildcats at Verizon Center , when the Terrapins blew a 10-point lead — or in any of their four conference losses at home — they struggled to forge an offensive identity down the stretch. Turgeon believed his team was not the same after a loss to Wisconsin in late February, during which junior center Michal Cekovsky suffered a season-ending ankle injury and the coach challenged its toughness. Maryland worked tirelessly to reverse course but never could. “But we never stopped trying to be the same team,” Turgeon said. “Our guys gave everything they had. We ran into a team that is playing well right now.”. The Terrapins not only struggled on the boards — Xavier ...

Ncaa Basketball Tourney Coverage

... 17 -. NCAA: Oklahoma State v. Michigan - airs 12:00 pm. Caption Emmaus senior basketball player David Kachelries talks about playoff game against Harrisburg and an amazing career with his brother Matt at Emmaus. Emmaus senior basketball player David Kachelries talks about playoff game against Harrisburg and an amazing career with his brother Matt at Emmaus. David Kachelries is the all-time leading score in Emmaus boys basketball history. Caption Emmaus senior basketball player David Kachelries talks about playoff game against Harrisburg and an amazing career with his brother Matt at Emmaus. Emmaus senior basketball player David Kachelries talks about playoff game against Harrisburg and an amazing career with his brother Matt at Emmaus. David Kachelries is the all-time leading score in Emmaus boys basketball history. Caption David Kachelries talks about a historic win for Emmaus and his brother Matt. Green Hornets beat Harrisburg 64-61 to reach state quarterfinals for first time in school history. Caption Emmaus senior Matt Kachelries talks about hitting 1,000 points and getting big 64-61 win over Harrisburg. Kachelries made two late free throws for the ...

Predictions For Friday's First-round Schedule

... Kent State. No. 7 Michigan versus No. 10 Oklahoma State. This 5’7” Winthrop PG Keon Johnson Proves That Height Is Just a Number. Dunk City Is Back! Florida Gulf Coast Ready to Fly High in March. Dreams to Reality: Northern Iowa Buzzer Beater. UNCW's Biggest Cinderella Story Is Their Walk-on Guard Chris Flemming. Take Your Shot: How R. J. Hunter's Miracle 3 Led to Incredible Tourney Upset. Meet Texas A&M's Robert Williams: NBA Lottery Sleeper Pick with a 7'5" Wingspan. This Night in the NBA: Kawhi Leonard Makes MVP Case, Dion Waiters Goes Off. History of Vinsanity. B/R Presents: "Great Question" with Ice Cube. This Personal Trainer Has Been Demolishing Your Bench Goals Since High School. History Will Never Forget New England Patriots 5 th Championship in Super Bowl LI. 'Train as If Your Life Depends on It': Meet the Bodybuilder with Bionic Strength. A 7 FL No-Pads, Full-Contact Football League Claims It's Safer Than the NFL. Gridiron Heights: Patriots Win Super Bowl LI. Fake Brady Makes Appearance ...

Saint Mary's Survives Rare Close Game To Beat Vcu

... blocked shot and rebound led to his own layup and Jock Landale added two free throws for SMC. Even though the Rams then cut the lead to four points, they never came any closer. SMC coach Randy Bennett chuckled during Wednesday's news conference when asked about VCU's success in close games, noting how his team lacked such experience this season. What the Gaels do have veteran leadership, which helped them weather the Rams' challenge. "Our guards have great composure," Bennett said. "We've been through situations like this before," said senior guard Joe Rahon, who played the last 11 minutes with four fouls. "It was like earlier in the year when we were at Dayton, the same thing happened and we learned from that. They cut it to two and we used our experience and responded.". The Gaels committed 15 turnovers, an acceptable number ...

Time Is Running Out! How To Pick Your Ncaa Basketball Tournament Bracket

... are your front-runners in this category. [ACC Now Podcast: Last-minute tips for filling out a bracket and a Duke-Carolina final?]. 2) It’s the coaches, stupid. James Carville would be great on CBS, or at least tru TV. This doesn’t require a lot of thought. Pick the team with the best coach. If it’s a close call on the bench, see Rule No. 1. You can’t go wrong with the usual suspects here: Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams, Rick Pitino (Louisville), Bill Self (Kansas) and John Calipari (Kentucky). Jay Wright’s breakthrough last year provides hope for Sean Miller (Arizona), Steve Alford (UCLA), Mike Brey (Notre Dame) and Mark Few (Gonzaga). Video: Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski talks about winning four consecutive games to clinch the ACC Tournament following their win over Notre Dame on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, ...

Unc Seeking Redemption For Last Year’s Ncaa Tournament Title Loss

... to junior point guard Joel Berry, sends out messages “twice or triple times” the rate of anyone else. Sometimes Meeks asks his teammates if they want to get something to eat. Or if “anybody is trying to do this, that,” Berry said. The messages got to be so much, Berry said, that sometimes he sets his phone on “do not disturb” mode. UNC's Kennedy Meeks talks about the memories of the loss to Villanova and it's motivation for this season. Andrew Carter __link__. Every time those messages – or any others – pop up, the Tar Heels receive a reminder. The title of their group text is “redemption,” which is the name Justin Jackson gave it back in the summer, a few months after the loss in the national championship. Different players defined the idea of redemption in their own ways on Thursday. For Jackson the word has come to mean “getting a national championship back, where we almost were.”. “Not many things do you get to have redos,” said Jackson, the junior wing forward who earned ACC Player of the Year honors. “And Brice and Marcus, ...

Northwestern Holds On; Xavier Wins In Upset

... was no one-year wonder after upsetting Michigan State as a No. 15 seed last March. The Blue Raiders (31-4) instead played like seasoned NCAA veterans with the way they held off the Gophers’ comeback attempt from a 17-point deficit in front of a loud and large contingent of Minnesota fans. Upshaw responded with seven straight points, including a 3-pointer and a reverse layup during a 7-3 run to help give Middle Tennessee a 10-point lead with 3:40 left. Coach Kermit Davis’ club will move on to face No. 4 seed Butler in the second round on Saturday. A season of redemption came to an end for fifth-seeded Minnesota (24-10), which bounced back from an eight-win season in 2015-16 to return to the NCAAs. EAST REGION. BUFFALO, N. Y. > > Donte Di Vincenzo scored 21 points and NCAA Tournament top seed Villanova shook off a slow start and stumbled forward in the East region with a 76-56 victory over No. 16 seed Mount St. Mary’s. The Wildcats (32-3) weren’t themselves for much of the first half before they opened the second half with a 21-6 run to take the first step toward defending their championship. Villanova is trying to be the first back-to-back ...

Ncaa Basketball Tournament To Impact Whnt News 19 Programming

... the bracket. The committee’s field of 68 is revealed on the Sunday before the four first-round games, appropriately dubbed “Selection Sunday.”. The selection process is based on a number of factors including win-loss record, strength of schedule and Rating Percentage Index (RPI) data. Other Facts. The single-elimination tournament is nicknamed “March Madness” or “The Big Dance.”. The “First Four” are the four opening round games. Two games match number 16 seeds against each other, and the other two games feature the last four at-large teams selected into the tournament. The winners advance to the next round, the round of 64. Each of the four regions consists of 16 teams that are seeded number 1 to number 16. In the first round, teams are paired according to seed. The number 1 seed faces number 16, number 2 faces number 15, number 3 faces number 14, and so forth. The winning teams advance to the second round. The sixteen teams ...