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Archive for March, 2009
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Mid-Major is a term that makes Gonzaga Head Coach Mark Few cringe. They were in the Sweet 16 just three years ago and have made the tournament 11 straight years. Many say they're a lock to make the tourney every year because the competition in the WCC conference is comparable ...
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Here at Sports Radio Interviews we just had our two month birthday. Yippee, yeah for us, whatever that means. Seriously, it's been a blast and truly a lot more work than I anticipated. So over the next few months we'll be hiring a few more writers and having some guest postings.
Our ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Sports Radio Interviews has searched high and wide the last few days to give you analysis from the coaches still left in the Sweet 16.We've done seven so far in individual postings and here are the first seven in one large posting.
This year's Sweet Sixteen is full of huge college ...
Posted in Arizona Wildcats, College Basketball, Connecticut Huskies, Duke Blue Devils, Michigan State Spartans, Purdue Boilermakers, Syracuse Orange, Villanova Wildcats | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The Big East has set an NCAA record with five teams from one conference in the Sweet 16. The East Region has two teams including Pittsburgh and Villanova. Of the 10 games played by the five remaining Big East teams 8 of them were won by double digits with an ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
In 2003, the Syracuse Orange were a 3 seed and ended up winning the national championship led by Freshmen Carmelo Anthony and Gerry McNamara. Not only did it make every Syracuse graduate (myself included) and fan ecstatic, but it also gave Jim Boeheim a grace period where he was free ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
It's usually taken for granted that Duke and North Carolina will make the Sweet 16 every year. Well, Duke ended a two year run of not making it out of the first weekend by beating Texas 74-69 on Saturday and now face an athletic and rough Villanova team.
The season turned ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
It looks like Purdue Boilermakers head coach Matt Painter has completed the turn-around of the program that Gene Keady had built up then let falter in his final years of his illustrious career. Painter took over officially in 2005 and only won nine games his first year. But his teams ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Want to know just how consistently good Tom Izzo's Michigan State Spartans squads have been during his 14 year run in Lansing? How about this impressive streak. In the last 12 years, every Spartan who has stayed for four years has made it to the ultimate destination for any young ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
About this time last week, everybody was hemming and hawing about the inclusion of 19 win, 12 loss Arizona to this year's Big Dance. Two victories later, the Wildcats are heading to the Sweet 16, erasing any doubt along the way about whether or not they were deserving of an ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
After not being on the sidelines for his Huskies 1st round rout of Tennessee Chattanooga for health related reasons, Connecticut head coach Jim Calhoun was there to lead his team on Saturday. The opponent - if you could call it that - was Texas A&M. The final score? Nowhere near ...
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