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Big East Semifinal: Pitt-Marquette

Red Rover champions, these officials must be. Under the guise of a basketball game, Tim Higgins, Reggie Greenwood, and Pat Driscoll craftily chose and removed the most irreplaceable player from each team. Foul trouble forced both teams to bench crucial starters. In the children’s game of Red Rover, once your best player is […]

Big East semis Georgetown-West Virginia

“I’m a monster!” screamed Georgetown center Roy Hibbert after converting his final basket of a 72-55 win over the resurgent West Virginia Mountaineers.
Hibbert played like Dilbert in the quarterfinals. Thanks to a colossal mismatch in the post and increased motivation, Hibbert showed extraordinarily well in the third most lopsided game of the 2008 Big […]

2008 Big East Tournament Recap

Quarterfinal Games
Georgetown 82, Villanova 63
Let the bodies hit the floor!
Recording artists Drowning Pool years ago concocted an apt anthem for the Villanova-Georgetown rivalry with “Bodies (Let the Bodies Hit the Floor).”
Anything would have been better for ESPN to choose than the contrived, faux-frightening urban montage which accompanies every Aeropostale Big East Championship game.
In a rough […]

Bracketography’s “Best in State” Awards

Where are the best of the best from?
With All-Conference Teams mostly announced in the last two days, we at Bracketography thought we’d take a little different approach to our awards: the point of this article is to take a look at the best five from each state in the nation.
Talented players tend to come […]

Team Profile: Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Key Wins: UConn, @Villanova, Marquette, Pittsburgh
Key Losses: N-Baylor, @Georgia Tech, @ Marquette@ Georgetown
Key Stat: Rebounding Margin. No player on the floor quits until the ball is in the basket. Like piranhas in search of an unclaimed meal, Irish rebound with tremendous hunger. They will finish the year in the top ten nationally in […]

The Lighter Side of the MVC Tournament

Slumpbuster
Evansville went 7:53 without making a field goal in the first half. The Aces then began the second half with a 7:30 scoring drought. To give an idea of how long eight minutes is, two Northern Iowa fans almost figured out how to pay for their parking when no attendant was on duty. […]

2008 MVC Tournament Recap: Drake 79, Illinois State 49

Normally subdued, Keno pumped his fist in the air right around the time Drake took only its second lead of the afternoon. Little did he know the game would open up almost immediately.
Playing with trademarked balance, DU knocked the Redbirds from the windowsill early. The hungry Bulldogs closed the first half with a […]

Team Profile: Connecticut Huskies

Key Wins: @Indiana, Marquette, Pittsburgh, @Syracuse, Notre Dame, West Virginia
Key Losses: Memphis, N-Gonzaga, @Notre Dame, @Georgetown, Providence, @Providence
Key Stat: 8.7. The Huskies as a team average nearly 9 blocks a game, with 7′3″ Hasheem Thabeet swatting approximately half of those.
Most Important Player: A.J. Price.
“It’s my job to be the head of the team […]

MVC Tournament Recap: Illinois State 56, Northern Iowa 42

When “Little O” nailed a 3-pointer with two on the shot clock all hopes of the first ever All-Iowa MVC Final were dashed. The Osiris Eldridge shot came from 22 feet out with 2:18 to play.
Trying to rebound from an off night in the Illinois State tournament opener, Eldridge came out possessed. The […]

MVC Tournament Recap: Drake 75, Creighton 67

No worries. Drake defeated Creighton 75-67 to reach the nationally televised Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Final. The one team that did not need a strong conference tournament showing, Drake is starting to regain the air of invincibility they established earlier and seemingly lost in late February.
Led by an incredibly reserved coaching staff, DU […]

Meet Andrew

Andrew Force, "a rising star in the broadcast fraternity," is a freelance sportswriter and broadcast journalist based in Central Illinois. He focuses primarily on the Big East and Missouri Valley Conferences for Bracketography.

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