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SB Nation Conference Re-draft: Hoopin' it up for Round Six
The sixth round picks are in and we could not be more pleased with the results. -- The 12 Pack: Duke -- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Kansas -- Team Speed Kills: California -- Conference TMZ: Maryland -- The House of a Thousand Sanctions: Kentucky -- The Cult Of Les Miles: Iowa Here's the...
Duke Should Have Listened to Bobby Knight
Washington Post columnist John Feinstein makes the case for Maryland hiring Mark Turgeon as their new basketball coach in today's column, but it is his lead that will create a case of Post Traumatic Syndrome for Longhorn basketball fans with a long memory. According to Feinstein, Knight wanted Duke...
Aloha, No. 1 seed?
If you have a copy of the first half of Texas's 69-49 win at A&M on January 31, burn that sucker. Save it. Savor it. Review it frequently during the long, hot summer. It's likely the best half of basketball Texas will play this season. They peaked that night. Yeah, I said it. That's the bad news....
FTC: Why Duke-St. John's should matter to Texas
Quick Hoops Notes FTC: Boy, I hope Rick Barnes has a few minutes to show his team what happened at MSG today. He doesn’t have to show them the whole game, or even more than the last five minutes of the first half. What they will see is a St. John’s team tearing up Duke, making them...
Duke-Butler Delivers for CBS
If indeed this was the last March Madness Tournament to be shown exclusively on over-the-air TV, Duke's last-second win over Butler gave CBS a nice parting gift -- the most watched championship game this decade. Over 48 million fans tuned in to at least some of Duke's 61-59 win over Butler, the...
The Butler Almost Did It.
Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.... Then Goliath got up, dusted himself off, and hit David with a metal folding chair. Or maybe I'm...
Final Four: Best TV Ratings In Five Years
If only one Top Seed was to make it to the Final Four, the NCAA wanted that #1 seed to be Duke -- the team that genders both love and hate -- as well as TV ratings. The trend continued this year as the Blue Devils win over West Virginia pulled in more than 16 million viewers. The 10.0 rating/18...
Your Final 4 Open Thread
Vegas currently has: Butler - 1.5 over Michigan St Duke -2.5 over WVU
Paying homage
Football: Lots of good stuff written recently and interesting developments in the Longhorn world. Were you all aware that you can watch the Texas football team play on Sunday? 4 pm, DKR, free. Before handing me the keys to the Barking Carnival cell office in Sailor Ripley's dungeon basement Scipio...
Sundry: Final 4, The 3-4, Dez, TMG skool, Sheroid Evans
Some thoughts before the weekend. Kevin Berger breaks down Michigan State - Butler and West Virginia - Duke over at March to March. If you want to read about basketball at the national level, this should be your destination site. Bookmark appropriately, sirs and madams. He's too humble to brag,...
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