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TOURNEY WATCH: 3/20/2011 (NCAA Open Thread)
For the final day of the NCAA Tournament's first week, this again is your BOTC-hosted home for March Madness discussion. Saturday was an active day throughout the Big Dance, but for the purposes of this feature, all the relevant action occurred in the wide-open Southeast Region, in which I...
TOURNEY WATCH: 3/19/2011 (NCAA Open Thread)
For the third straight day of gorging on hoops, feel free to use this story's comments section as a gathering place to discuss the afternoon's NCAA Tournament action. Texas A&M and UNLV both fell to 24-9 after ugly losses in the second round. TAMU's loss was ugly on the offensive end, while...
First-Round Danger: Utah State Preview
I have no qualms with the seemingly consensus opinion that K-State is slightly over-seeded (the only team in the Big 12 with that distinction) and fortunate to be in easily the weakest region in the bracket. But for all of that good luck, there's also a downside. The Wildcats got matched up against...
Georgia Bulldogs NCAA Tournament Bracketology: How the Fox Hounds Look and How the Fans Should Root
Previously, I provided a brief glance at the latest bracketology by Blogging the Bracket’s Chris Dobbertean. Chris since has offered a more thorough examination of the field of sixtysomething, and he sees the Georgia Bulldogs as the fifth and final SEC entrant into the NCAA Tournament. The Fox...
Et Tu, Hawai'i?: Warriors Looking At Independence While The MWC And C-USA Talk
Editor's Note: A couple of thoughts popped into my mind overnight and I've added them to this post. The WAC's future continues to be in doubt today, as they wait on BYU, and potentially Hawai'i, to determine its next move. Meanwhile, the Mountain West continues to explore its options. More after...
Quality and Quantity: A Look at the Georgia Bulldogs' Non-Conference Record
(Warning: It is not a stretch to suggest that the posting that follows easily could be read as an optimistic assessment reaching the conclusion that the glass in Athens is half-full. Proceed with caution, and with the understand that I’m not any happier about that fact than you are.) Earlier...
The Pac-10 Cannot Expand Without Both Utah and BYU
Since I raised the issue of Big Ten expansion last night, I suppose it’s only fair that I mention the much more immediate likelihood of Pac-10 expansion while I’m at it. There has been talk to the effect that it’s Colorado or it’s no one, but I disagree, for three reasons. These are they: 1. With...
Evaluating My Preseason Conference Championship Predictions
Now that the best offseason ever has settled down somewhat in the wake of all the firings, resignations retractions leaves of absence, cowardly departures from Knoxville at night amid rioting in the streets surrounding the athletic building (not unlike the frantic escape of a deposed communist...
Final 2009 College Football BlogPoll Ballot Explained
In the immediate aftermath of the national championship game, I posted a preliminary draft of my BlogPoll ballot and responded to constructive criticisms of it. While I remain open to (and, in fact, openly solicit) alternative viewpoints, I am (for the moment) sticking with my original top 25,...
How the Mountain West Can Become an Automatic BCS Qualifier
The ongoing agitation for a playoff, while not without its intelligent and principled adherents, nevertheless is in some quarters largely a knee-jerk reaction born primarily of greed and envy. Last night’s Fiesta Bowl once again exposed the hypocrisy of this position, as two supposedly disheartened...
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