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Georgetown is Just One of the Teams in the Loaded Midwest Region This Year

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Georgetown is a very difficult team to figure out heading into the tournament.  The Hoyas started out the season as good as anybody and looked like they had the makings of a National Championship team.  They beat Duke, Washington, Butler, Villanova and even knocked off the regular season Big East ...

Notre Dame Looks To Have Turned The Corner At The Right Time

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Just three weeks ago, Notre Dame was on its way out of the NCAA Tournament.  Their future looked bleak after Luke Harangody was sidelined for a couple of games with a knee injury.  Initially, the Fighting Irish feared for the worst and thought that he would be out for the ...

Steve Alford Has New Mexico Ready to Dance

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

He may be toiling much more anonymously these days, but something tells me that New Mexico head coach Steve Alford is enjoying living and coaching under much less scrutiny compared to when he was at Iowa and constantly linked to taking over at Indiana. Alford has New Mexico back in ...

Tubby Smith Takes Another Team to The Dance

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 ...

Thad Matta is Looking to Bounce Back From Last Year’s Disappointing Early Exit in the NCAA Tournament

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 ...

Dan Guerrero Defends The Work Of The NCAA Selection Committee

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 ...

Bob Huggins Guides West Virginia Into The Dance As A #2 Seed

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 ...

Cornell Is Looking To Upset Temple

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.  ...

Villanova Looks to Overcome Their Late Season Struggles

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 ...

Maryland Takes On Houston and the Nation’s Leading Scorer

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 ...