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Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
The University of Minnesota is making its second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament under Coach Tubby Smith. Smith is only in his third season with the Golden Gophers but he has already changed the atmosphere surrounding the program. Young high school players no longer think that Minnesota is just ...
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Get your dancing shoes out. It’s March Madness! When I started to fill out my bracket, I realized that the Midwest region is absolutely loaded. I know some people have talked about how hard of a road Kentucky has to the Final Four, but I think teams in the Midwest ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Get your dancing shoes out! We're closing in on the 2010 edition of The Big Dance. The field of 65 is set and the opening weekend of games is just around the corner. As seems to be the case every year, the selection process left several competitive teams dreaming of ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Love him or hate him, West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins has an amazing track record of success in the game of college basketball. He's won everywhere he's been. Whether or not he's done so in an entirely 'wholesome' fashion may be another story, but year after year his teams ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
The first round game of Temple vs. Cornell is a five vs. twelve match-up and we all know that those types of upsets happen regularly in the NCAA Tournament. Cornell is the Ivy League champion and that usually means they are a fundamentally-sound basketball team that very rarely beats themselves. ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Villanova is one of a few sleeper teams that nobody is talking about. Well I guess losing five out of their last seven games will have people jumping off of the bandwagon but I am on it. Villanova is one of the more experienced teams with two seniors and two ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Gary Williams and the Maryland Terrapins start off the 2010 NCAA Tournament against the Houston Cougars Friday evening in Spokane, WA. The Cougars won the Conference USA Tournament to gain entrance into this year’s Dance while Maryland was co-champions of the ACC’s regular season. The match-up to watch will be ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
About ten years ago, Butler was one of the most prominent Cinderella stories in the NCAA Tournament. They were the team that was ranked number 11, number 12, or even number 13 and looking for the glass slipper. Now, they are the team with the bulls-eye on their back as ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
PredictionMachine.com is a website that I manage that plays the game 50,000 times before it's actually played. For the NCAA Tournament, we have used what we call the "Predictalator," a computer simulator I developed that plays through every play of every game, to not only provide picks and predictions for ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
For an actor, Pitt men's basketball head coach Jamie Dixon is a really good basketball coach. Dixon grew up in North Hollywood, where he starred in several commercials (for companies such as Rice Krispies, KFC, Mattel, Volvo and Bud Light) and is still a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors ...
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