It’s turn back the clock time (literally and figuratively) for the 2008 Maui Invitational. This event, which along with the Preseason NIT used to be the highlighted early-season television affair in college basketball, has organized a prime field for its 25th anniversary. The 2,400-seat Lahaina Civic Center will host three top 10 teams in the [...]

It’s a policy here at Bracketography.com that if your alma mater is the worst team in college basketball according to the RPI, you must do a state of the union address (David Mihm doesn’t count because he went to a D-III school for which none of us could academically qualify ). I’m a good company [...]

Night after night college basketball fans think they’ve heard nothing but consistent coverage of monumental upsets. Well, not exactly. In fact, quite the opposite. Several BCS-conference schools have gotten a pass for pitiful losses either because of other newsworthy items that day or lack of overall knowledge. This is why I’m here. At least I [...]

In 1970, 8th-ranked Marquette rejected a berth in the NCAA Tournament because the committee placed the Golden Eagles in a region far away from their Milwaukee fan base (another issue was the 16 slots were filled by automatic qualifiers from conferences and many large private universities such as Marquette, Notre Dame and DePaul did not [...]

MILWAUKEE – As the 11th-ranked Marquette Golden Eagles take the floor for warm-ups, I couldn’t help but wonder if these highly-touted recruits were truly worried about a school with five initials. With eight minutes left in the game and IUPUI only down one (55-54), the answer was a clear “no.” It’s just ridiculous to assume [...]

Historically the Preseason NIT field has consisted of four ranked teams in the preseason polls that will meet in New York City to attract viewers to the Worldwide Leader. That’s not the case in 2008, but for the first time in recent years, the entire field is competitively deeper and is evenly distributed across the [...]

Smith out at KentuckyAt the end of the day Rick Pitino was right, sort of. In an interview with ESPN’s Mike and Mike during Championship Week, the Louisville head coach gave his opinion on Kentucky’s coaching situation. “If Kentucky fires Tubby Smith, their program will regress for the next 15 years,” Pitino said. Dick Vitale [...]

For about 30 minutes, the game plan of Oakland head coach Greg Kampe worked.The Golden Grizzlies’ all-time leader in wins knew he had no answer for Oral Roberts forward Caleb Green, but the goal was to stop the other four guys on the floor from contributing. His biggest fear had to be ORU guard Ken [...]

Anybody confused as to why Wright State’s Dashaun Wood was named Horizon League Player of the Year found out Tuesday night in his team’s biggest game.The senior guard ended the game with 27 points, nine rebounds and made the two crucial plays that allowed the Raiders to earn their second-ever NCAA Tournament berth by beating [...]

#1 Gonzaga 77, #2 Santa Clara 68 For the ninth consecutive year, the Gonzaga Bulldogs (23-10, 11-3) are dancing into the NCAA Tournament after defeating Santa Clara 77-68 in the West Coast Conference Tournament final Monday night. Gonzaga, the WCC regular season champion, has persevered through early-season injuries and an indefinite suspension of star forward [...]