Florida (2-0) versus Syracuse (3-0) will be a nice early-season tussle. Both teams believe 2009 will mark a return to the NCAA Tournament. For different reasons these recent NCAA Champions missed the Big Dance last year.
For ‘Cuse, the two-year hiatus stings even worse.
Two of the nation’s finest point guards provide the source [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]