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Archive for March, 2011
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
When it comes to the Mountain West Conference, everybody knows about the teams that carried the league this season. No. 2-seeded San Diego State and No. 3-seeded BYU have plenty of folks thinking a team from the league could make a run to the Final Four this year.
While UNLV's chances ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
I've said it before and I'll say it once more: offensive linemen and fullbacks tend to be well respected by their teammates and coaches, and not only for their on-field contributions. Many seem to also have a way of building camaraderie and chemistry in a group dynamic, a trait that's ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
The St.Peter's Peacocks are a small New Jersey area school that most college basketball fans outside of the one's who may go to schools in the MAAC have never probably even heard of. Head coach John Dunne won only five games with his squad in the first year (2006-07) he ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
While Erin Andrews has been widely known in the sports world as the gorgeous blonde reporter for ESPN, she has also dabbled in a little reality TV as well. Of course Andrews participated in Dancing with the Stars on ABC and performed extremely well. Another reality show on ABC that ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
The NCAA Tournament officially got underway last night with the “First Four.” UNC Asheville beat Arkansas Little Rock and then Clemson whipped UAB, who looked like a team that didn’t belong in the tournament. Probably because they didn’t belong in the tournament. Now that Clemson won, West Virginia knows who ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Kansas State was rewarded for their successful season as the Wildcats earned an appearance in the NCAA Tournament and their third in the last four seasons by receiving an at-large bid. They are set to play the Utah State Aggies, who went 30-3 and won the WAC Conference, on Thursday ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
PredictionMachine.com is a website that plays the game 50,000 times before it’s actually played. For the NCAA Tournament, the “Predictalator,” a computer simulator plays through every play of every game, to not only provide picks and predictions for each of the first round games, but to ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Thanks in large part to a lack of depth nationally and their reputation in the Big Dance, Michigan State made it into the NCAA tournament despite losing 14 games, and stretched their consecutive tournament streak to 14, currently third-longest behind Kansas and Duke. They have been to the Final Four ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
All things considered, Mike Brey has done a very nice job building the Notre Dame basketball program into a perennially solid club in what's now an incredible difficult Big East Conference. Brey has won over 60 percent of his games roaming the sidelines for the Irish, and he's been named ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Dick Vitale isn't afraid to put Louisville in his Final Four. The Cardinals are coming off a solid run in the Big East tournament where they battled to the final minute of the title game with Connecticut, but fell short and wound up with a No. 4 seed in the ...
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