Archive | Basketball – Men’s
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Column: NCAA Tournament veils the ugly reality of collegiate athletics
Highway robbery. A broken economic model. March Madness. Call it what you want, but today the NCAA men’s basketball postseason tournament will begin with a flurry of first-round matchups. Every year, I cherish filling out my bracket.
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Calipari shuts down NBA rumors before they begin
Reports of New York Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni’s departure from the team surfaced Wednesday afternoon.
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Glen Rice Jr. dismissed from Georgia Tech basketball team
After a series of disciplinary issues and multiple suspensions, Glen Rice Jr. has been dismissed from the men’s basketball team. Rice will remain a student at Tech and finish his academic requirements for the spring semester.
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Column: Doubt the Missouri Tigers at your own risk
Go ahead. Raise your questions about this Missouri team. Doubt its chances to dance this March Madness season. Surely, you wouldn’t be alone.
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Column: Twitter conflicts with athletes are coarse
I have never been a fan of following celebrities or athletes on Twitter, simply because I feel as if the only reason people do so is to: 1) Ask them for a RT because it’s their niece’s ex-boyfriend’s birthday, 2) Send them their phone number in a direct message, or 3) Wait for them to say ...
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Kansas receives No. 2 seed in NCAA tournament
It’s not what the Kansas Jayhawks were hoping for, but they’ll take it. “Should be a No. 1 seed,” senior guard Tyshawn Taylor said. “But we’re cool with that No. 2 seed.” The Jayhawks (27-6, 16-2) enter the 68-team NCAA Tournament as a No. 2 seed in the Midwest region.
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Brusing bracket – Calipari believes Kentucky’s region is ‘stacked’
Despite earning the overall number one seed in the NCAA Tournament, Kentucky head coach John Calipari believes the Cats are playing in the toughest region. “They stacked the region,” Calipari said.
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Sadler fired as Nebraska men’s basketball coach
Nebraska basketball coach Doc Sadler was fired Friday, a day after the Huskers were knocked out of the Big Ten Conference Tournament. The 79-61 defeat to Purdue was the 11th double-digit loss of the season, which finished with just four Big Ten victories.
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Weber becomes Illinois’ 3rd head coach fired this year
After nine seasons, Bruce Weber is no longer the Illinois men’s basketball head coach. Just one day after Thursday’s loss to Iowa in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, athletic director Mike Thomas called a press conference at 11 a.m.