Final Four Preview 2011

It is a great weekend for sports fans with the Final Four and the culmination of the college basketball season next Monday in Houston for the national championship. It is clear that it is not the teams the start the season hot, but the ones that get hot when it really matters — March and April! Many things happen over the course of a long season. Some teams play great basketball in December and January, only to break down from injuries or run out of steam down the stretch. Villanova is a good... 

March Madness Bracket Tips: Motivation

While watching all the tournament games this week, does anything stand out? How about all the upsets? As usual, upsets and surprises dominated the highlights. George Mason did it again, a team that went to the Final Four in 2006; VCU not only beat Georgetown but blasted them, 74-56, and Louisville going down on opening night. Upsets happen a lot in March and will continue. Sometimes it’s matchups, but other times it is interest and motivation. That explains the demise of Tennessee, pulling a no-show... 

NCAA Tournament Bracket Tips 2011

It’s the final stretch of a long college basketball season. There are better teams, tougher matchups, and defensive intensity. It’s a good time of the season to look backward — to look back, that is, to conference regular season tourney play and early season matches against different conferences. That’s because it can be tougher to analyze matchups during the Big Dance, with teams like Vandy and Louisville from the East heading out West to play, which happened in Round One. Even... 

March Madness Tips: Beware of the No-Name Teams

It’s that time of year again: Basketball games night and day, day and night and after a few hours of sleep, we wake up the next day and go through it all over again. College tournament play is one of the most enjoyable times of the year for sports fans and bettors, with a seemingly endless stream of action and excitement. Big name schools often end up playing for the title. Florida of the SEC took home back to back national championships by beating UCLA and Ohio State in 2006 and ’07.... 

Bracketology: NCAA Tournament Projections and Bubble Watch

All I know is this: 68 is a whole lotta teams. For those of you that have been kicking it with the Tea Party/mountain folk in the hills of Tennessee over the last few months, I am here to remind you that the NCAA Tournament has actually expanded this year. The Big Dance will now feature 68 teams, with four at-large squads taking on four automatic qualifiers in a play-in game on the Tuesday before the actual 64-team tournament begins on Thursday. The changes were enacted last July. And while I do... 

March Madness Update 2010: Match Up Tips

It’s the final stretch of a long college basketball season. There are better teams, tougher matchups, and defensive intensity. It’s a good time of the season to look backward — to look back, that is, to conference regular season play and early season matches against different conferences. That’s because it can be tougher to analyze matchups during the Big Dance, with teams like San Diego State from way out West heading to the Northeast to play Tennessee of the SEC, for instance. Even... 

NCAA Bracket Update: West Coast Teams to the Sweet 16

Coming into the tournament was the talk that teams from the West coast, especially the Pac-10, will have limited participation in the tournament and would not be able to compete with the teams from the Midwest or the East coast. Coming into the second round with a record of 6-5 and St, Mary’s cruised by Villanova to stroll into the sweet 16. The question remains how many more will get in. Out of the gate the PAC-10 made statement about the criticisms of the PAC-10 this season. The California... 

NCAA Basketball Bracket Tips 2010

It’s that time of year again: Basketball games night and day, day and night and after a few hours of sleep, we wake up the next day and go through it all over again. College tournament play is one of the most enjoyable times of the year for sports fans and bettors, with a seemingly endless stream of action and excitement. Big name schools often end up playing for the title. Florida of the SEC took home back to back national championships by beating UCLA and Ohio State in 2006 and ’07.... 

Historical NCAA Tournament Results

The first round of the March Madness tournament usually has a few upsets and if you are filling out your bracket you want to concentrate on which teams have a chance at the upset. Traditionally there is always a 12 seed that takes down a 5 seed and a couple of 11’s that take down a 6 and even every once in a while there are some shockers with 14’s taking down 3’s. In face here is a look at what some of the ATS records are for seeds over the last 5 years. 1 vs. 16 We all know the story here... 

March Madness Betting 2010

March Madness is the U.S. college basketball championships, also known as the NCAA Tournament. It covers both men’s and women’s NCAA college tournaments, which take place throughout March to determine the men’s and women’s college basketball champs in the U.S. The tournament starts with 64 teams and after each round of play, the number of teams is whittled down until only two men’s and two women’s teams are left. Those two games are played for the men’s and...