#1 VCU 65, #6 George Mason 59 And exhale. George Mason won’t even make the 2007 NCAA Tournament but Jim Larranaga’s team found a way to scare about 20 BCS conference bubble teams into holding their breaths. Virginia Commonwealth guard Eric Maynor was the catalyst for his team’s comeback 65-59 win Monday evening. “For about [...]

#2 Belmont (22-9) at #1 East Tennessee State (23-8) 284 miles separates the two schools that will decide a conference tournament championship and an NCAA Tournament bid Saturday afternoon. Needless to say both programs know each other well and understand what a win would mean. “We talk about it all the time but 40 minutes [...]

#6 VMI (14-18) at #1 Winthrop (27-4) ESPN had better make sure their camera people can follow the ball in the Big South Tournament championship game, because the pace will be nonstop action. Normally, top-seed and highly favored Winthrop (27-4, 14-0) likes to play at an up-tempo, 94-foot style that forces its opponent to test [...]

#2 Eastern Kentucky 63, #1 Austin Peay 62 Championship games allow for anonymous players to become stars at least for a single day. Down by one with six seconds left in the game and a NCAA Tournament berth on the line, Eastern Kentucky (21-11) got the ball to a freshman forward averaging three points per [...]

For the last decade, the Big Dance has been all about four letters. No, not N-C-A-A. I mean D-U-K-E. When Duke showed up in a schools bracket, several other four-letter words were uttered by fans. Some have even gone so far as to joke its first two games in the last decade were the Durham [...]

Bracketography was not in the Eagles’ locker room, but allow us to speculate about the bullet points Winthrop head coach Greg Marshall listed on his pre-game blackboard: Shoot over 50 percent Make open threes Find No. 15 (Missouri State guard Blake Ahearn) at all times Take care of the ball Check, check, check and check. [...]

The Hofstra Pride (20-8, 12-4) rode its tremendous trio of guards to victory once again. With 1.7 seconds on the clock, senior guard Carlos Rivera toed the line and knocked down two free throws to defeat the Holy Cross Crusaders 65-64 on BracketBuster Saturday. The victory gave Tom Pecora and the Pride their third consecutive [...]

Much like Old Dominion, New Mexico State couldn’t have asked for a worse matchup. Ohio isn’t even ranked in the RPI’s Top 100, and the Bobcats just suffered a brutal home loss to previously 4-17 Northern Illinois.Rick Pitino disciple Reggie Theus has done a remarkable job turning this program around after the somewhat disappointing tenure [...]

Bruiser Flint brings his full-court, up-tempo, high scoring squad to Omaha’s undoubtedly sold-out Qwest Center in this marquee clash, one of the two or three best in this year’s event. A fourth marquee road win of the year (in addition to Syracuse, Villanova, and St. Joseph’s) would put Drexel on the cusp of an NCAA [...]

Normally Fullerton (18-5, 8-3) fans can’t help but already concentrate on their nationally-ranked baseball program. However, with Fullerton standing just ½ game back in the Big West Conference, more people are making their way into Titan Gym.Wright State had been an afterthought for much of the season, but woke up everyone around the country by [...]