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Another opponent fell victim to No. 4 seed Syracuse’s suffocating zone defense as the Orangemen strapped up No. 3 seed Marquette in a 55-39 winning performance in the first Elite Eight contest of the day on Saturday March 30 in Washington, D.C. It was an intense defensive battle between Syracuse (30-9) and Marquette (26-9); neither […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–If you tried your hand at predicting the NCAA Tournament men’s basketball championship outcome, you might have to consider your bracket officially screwed. Two of the schools most favored to reach the Final Four were eliminated from the Sweet 16 round on March 28 as No. 2 Miami (29-7) lost to Marquette (26-8) and […]

Wichita State’s upset victory over No. 1 seed Gonzaga on Saturday March 23 highlighted the first half of the NCAA Tournament’s ‘Round of 32’. Gonzaga hadn’t lost a game in weeks but that’s why they call it March Madness because any team has a fighter’s chance in the NCAA Tournament. In eight games played on […]

Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) stole the show on Sunday March 24 by becoming the first No. 15 seed in NCAA Tournament history to reach the Sweet 16. FGCU upset No. 7 seed San Diego State, 81-71, to advance on. FGCU was just one of two lower seed teams to beat a higher seed in […]

(Updated 3/25/2013) The second day of the ‘Round of 64’ saw more upsets, as seven lower seeds beat higher-ranked teams on March 22. The results were: No. 2 Duke defeated No. 15 Albany, 73-61. No. 12 Ole Miss defeated No. 2 Wisconsin, 57-46. No. 9 Temple defeated No. 8 N.C. State, 76-72. No. 2 Miami […]

The first full round of the 2013 NCAA men’s basketball tournament is halfway complete, with 16 games played on March 21. The tournament opened with a few surprising upsets—no surprise in a field that has no clear favorites. In 16 games played March 21, four games saw a lower seed defeat a higher seed including […]

(Updated 4/22/2013) Just days after claiming a first ever NCAA Tournament win, the North Carolina A&T Aggies had their greatest season in school history come to an end as they fell to the No. 1 NCAA seed Louisville Cardinals, 79-48 in the second round of the Midwest Region on March 21 in Lexington, Kentucky. The […]

It’s the time of the year when every college basketball fan in the nation, casual or diehard, tries to pick the winner of each round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Seldom does anyone, experts included, successfully pick the right teams–but at least you can’t feel too bad about your own bracket. That said, here’s […]

Tear up the record book. The North Carolina A&T Aggies men’s basketball team ended the longest losing streak in NCAA tournament history with a 73-72 win over the Liberty University Flames from Lynchburg, Va. in front of 12,027 in a first round First Four contest at the University of Dayton Arena Tuesday night March 19. […]

A look at the NCAA men’s tournament, the 68-team free-for-all that begins Tuesday and ends three weeks from now at the Final Four in Atlanta: 1. WHO’S NUMBER 1? Well, we won’t know who the NCAA champion is until the Final Four is over on April 8. But the four No. 1 seeds heading into […]