Recent Posts Tagged With 'ncaa_basketball'

• Kansas Jayhawk Basketball, 2009-2010 Lineup

  Posted on Friday April 24th, 2009 at 15:48 in kansas_basketball, kansas_jayhawks, ncaa_basketball

  How Good Will KU Be Next Season?So you've probably heard by now that Xavier Henry and brother C.J. are headed to KU and now the Jayhawks are the clear-cut pre-season #1. In case you're wondering, I've...

• NCAA Bracket Intuition: Hatred

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 15:42 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  This guy is hilarious, and captures the reason I have Duke losing to Texas and North Carolina losing to Butler. If I had the time, I'd write a column just like this. :)Picking against Duke just becaus...

• No Respect for Big 12 Basketball

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 12:35 in big_12_basketball, ncaa_basketball

  SI.com documents the tendency of lazy national sportswriters to view the Midwest as "football country" and the tendency of East and West-coast homers on the selection committee to send Big 12 basketba...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket Picks: Final Four, Championship

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 11:30 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  It's been a long road. Sweaty palms, favoritism, and excessive caffeine, offset by some very real basketball savvy, have brought us this far. (See my Round One NCAA Bracket Picks, Round Two NCAA Predi...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket Predictions: Elite Eight

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 10:46 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  UPDATE: My Final Four & Championship Bracket Picks are now up. After a couple rounds of frenzied picking, we now have our Sweet Sixteen teams. (See my First Round NCAA Bracket Predictions and my S...

• NCAA Bracket Predictions: 2009 Second Round

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 13:02 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  UPDATE: Third Round (Elite Eight) Bracket Picks are now up. It's a beautiful St Patrick's Day in Kansas City, and time to throw some more fuel into the NCAA buzz machine. Here are my bracket picks for...

• NCAA Bracket Predictions: 2009 First Round

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 15:41 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  UPDATE: NCAA Bracket Picks for the second round are now up. All right, we've reached the moment when I steel my nerves, peer over my bracket with wrinkled brow, and dive into the mad speculation and e...

• 2009 NCAA Tournament Links

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 11:31 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_tournament

  Great article on the chaotic euphoria/heartburn of March Madness, brackets, and the Kansas Jayhawks from the KC Star's J. Brady McCollough. Gotta give the local writers some love.In addition, CBS' Gar...

• NCAA Tournament Bracket 2009: Pick 'Em!

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 23:20 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  Update: My NCAA Bracket Predictions for the first round are now up. Check 'em!Bam! The official NCAA 2009 Bracket has dropped, and the consensus seems to be that the committee did a good job. (You can...

• NCAA Bracket 2009: Last Call

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 16:21 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  Here's one more shot at the 2009 NCAA Bracket from the folks at Bracketology 101. Now all you need to do is get comfy, devise a bracket strategy, and wait half an hour for the selection show.I'll hold...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket: Bracketology 101

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 19:03 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  Here's another Tournament bracket from the brilliant people at Bracketology 101. This one takes into account the various conference tournament upsets that took place yesterday...so you'll notice, for ...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket: ESPN

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 10:31 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_bracket, ncaa_tournament

  Well, it's clearly time to start up the bracket watch. The official 2009 NCAA Bracket is being developed as we speak, and will be revealed during the Selection Show on Sunday. However, that doesn't ke...

• 2009 Big 12 Bracket Predictions

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 22:05 in big_12, ncaa_basketball

  OK, as promised, here are my predictions for the Big 12 Tournament (bracket) which starts tomorrow. We'll start at the beginning, with the first round games, featuring a majority of Southern Big 12 Co...

• 2009 NCAA Bracket Speculation

  Posted on Monday March 9th, 2009 at 12:39 in ncaa_basketball, ncaa_tournament

  With less than a week to go before the NCAA Tournament Selection Show (March 15), the experts have free reign to start creating mock brackets...here's one from ESPN's Joe Lunardi. I'd love to see Okla...

• Big 12 - Pac 10 Hardwood Challenge Starts Tomorrow

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 14:13 in big_12, ncaa_basketball

  Starting tomorrow (December 4) is the yearly Big 12-Pac 10 Hardwood Challenge, 2008-2009 edition. The prospect of seeing KU, Baylor, Oklahoma and Texas kick the snot out of some decent Pac 10 teams wa...

• First NCAA Bracket of 2008-2009

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 10:39 in kansas_jayhawks, ncaa_basketball

  Thanks to the good folks at ESPN, we can begin engaging in NCAA tournament speculation in November. KU comes in as a #6 seed, which will probably be about right...although if the young (very young) Ja...

• Jayhawks Land a Haymaker on Memphis

  Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 13:25 in kansas_jayhawks, ncaa_basketball

  Scout.com reports:It's over. Thomas Robinson gave Bill Self's Jayhawks a verbal commitment to play his basketball at KU. Robinson, a 6-8 power forward from Brewster Academy in New Hampshire, is the f...

• Kansas & Memphis Square Off Over Recruits

  Posted on Wednesday October 8th, 2008 at 10:51 in bill_self, kansas_jayhawks, memphis, ncaa_basketball

  The University Daily Kansan has a well-written piece on Phase 2 of the KU-Memphis battle. As you know, the Jayhawks pulled out an amazing comeback victory to take home the NCAA title this March. Now B...

• Allen Field House Gets Love from Sports Illustrated

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 14:27 in kansas_jayhawks, ncaa_basketball

  SI points out what I've known for the last 20 years: Allen Field House in Lawrence, Kansas is an incredible college hoops venue.As always, I'm proud to be a Jayhawk. ...

• Kansas Jayhawks 2008-2009 Schedule

  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 11:48 in kansas_jayhawks, ncaa_basketball

  The Jayhawks have released the schedule for the upcoming basketball season. As the KC Star notes:The defending national champion Kansas Jayhawks will be young, but they won’t be untested entering Bi...

• NCAA Basketball Summer Recruiting Scene

  Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 15:20 in bill_self, kansas_jayhawks, ncaa_basketball

  The Las Vegas Sun has an in-depth look at the NCAA basketball summer recruiting scene from the perspective of Bill Self:"To be honest, I'm nervous," Self said of recruiting as a defending champ. "I'm ...

• 2008-2009 Big 12 Basketball Rankings

  Posted on Thursday July 17th, 2008 at 10:41 in big_12, ncaa_basketball

  Nice to see some speculation starting to make the rounds regarding the upcoming Big 12 basketball season. KUSports.com has Oklahoma and Texas at the top, and I agree. Baylor will also be a very danger...

• Big 12 / Pac 10 Hardwood Challenge 2008

  Posted on Tuesday June 17th, 2008 at 13:31 in kansas_jayhawks, ncaa_basketball

  Remember last year, when the Big 12 split the Hardwood Challenge with the Pac 10 despite getting no respect as a conference nationally? Well, it could happen again this year. And again, watch out for ...

• Jayhawks Land #2 Recruiting Class for 2008-2009

  Posted on Saturday May 24th, 2008 at 13:21 in kansas_jayhawks, ncaa_basketball, ucla_bruins

  According to Rivals.com, the Kansas Jayhawks have inked the nation's 2nd-best recruiting class (best in the Big 12) for the upcoming season. KUSports.com:Kansas University’s seven-man basketball rec...

• Obama Courts the Defeated Tarheel Vote

  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 16:01 in ncaa_basketball, satire

  "We didn't win the national championship, but we did play pick-up ball with Barack Obama--and that's something!" said UNC junior Tyler Hansbrough, who decided to return for his senior season after a p...

• How to Tell When a College Basketball Game is Out of Reach

  Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 15:59 in ncaa_basketball

  Memphis should have known that when they were up 9 with 2:12 left in the NCAA Championship game, the lead was only 23% safe. Slate Magazine's Bill James, who just happens to be a long-time Jayhawk fan...