Wisconsin scored a big victory for both its program and the Big Ten conference on Wednesday night. The Badgers upset No. 5 Duke 73-69 on the final day of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, all but clinching the Big Ten’s first win in the 11-year history of the event. Wisconsin’s triumph officially evened the 2009 score at [...]

Maryland went into Bloomington, Indiana on Tuesday night and pulled out a hard-fought 80-68 victory over the Hoosiers to put the ACC on the scoreboard of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. The Terrapins trailed throughout the majority of the first half before earning a 35-33 advantage at the intermission. After a back-and-forth start to the second [...]

Good Wins: Clemson (twice), at Virginia Tech, vs. North Carolina (ACC Tournament) Bad Losses: None (worst losses were at Northwestern and at Miami) Strengths: 1. Toney Douglas. The Atlanta, GA product erupted for Florida State this season. In his senior year, Douglas averaged 21.1 points per game while running the Seminoles’ offense. He also hit [...]

It isn’t called March Madness for nothing. Only in Conference-USA, where the Memphis Tigers look like they will never lose another game, have upsets been few and far between. “Carnage” is the only word that can adequately describe what’s been going on with the nation’s top teams this weekend throughout various conference tournaments. In the [...]

Friday of Championship Week is often billed as the best day of the college basketball season, and it certainly did not disappoint in Atlanta at the ACC Tournament. Three of the four quarterfinal games were decided after the final buzzer sounded. North Carolina 79, Virginia Tech 76 With all the carnage among college basketball’s top [...]

In case you’re wondering, there was basketball played outside of Madison Square Garden (site of the Big East Tournament) on Championship Week Thursday. You might not have known it while being engulfed by Syracuse’s 127-117 six-overtime win over UConn, not to mention Villanova’s buzzer-beating victory over Marquette and West Virginia’s emphatic upset over Pittsburgh, but [...]

Good Wins: vs. North Carolina, vs. Virginia Tech, at Maryland Bad Losses: at St. Louis, vs. Harvard Strengths: 1. Tyrese Rice. Having a stellar point guard who can manage games with his experience has always been a recipe for NCAA Tournament success (not to mention success in general). Boston College has one in Rice. The senior [...]

Butler 75, Davidson 63 The Worldwide Leader in Sports got what it wanted when Stephen Curry, a gametime decision due to an ankle injury, suited up and stepped on the floor for the opening tip. Unfortunately for Davidson, Curry’s presence made little difference against Butler on ESPNU BracketBuster weekend. Butler went into Davidson on Saturday [...]

Make it 10 straight for the ACC. This one, however, came a little bit harder than most of the conference’s previous nine wins in the ACC-Big 10 Challenge, and was a little bit more difficult than expected. So bragging rights go to the ACC yet again, but let’s be honest, this is pretty much all [...]

Is 10 the lucky number for the Big 10? The tenth annual ACC-Big 10 Challenge tips off on Monday and the score is ACC 9, Big Ten 0. That’s right; the Big 10 has never won, and it has only been remotely competitive once since 2003 (losing 6-5 in 2005). Overall, the ACC is 56-30 [...]