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Follow the bouncing ball here. 1990 National Championship Game: Duke vs. UNLV (UNLV won by 30. Mostly awful game.) 1991 Final Four: Duke vs. UNLV (Duke avenges, wins by 2 over undefeated UNLV team … and in Indianapolis no less.)… Continue Reading

In terms of upsets, the two craziest NCAA Tournaments were 1999 and 2014. UConn won both, interestingly.

The 2014 NCAA Tournament was pretty crazy, for sure — an eight-seed (Kentucky) met a seven-seed (UConn) in the national championship game, after said eight-seed (at one point the No. 1 team in America) had dispatched the only undefeated team… Continue Reading

Can Mark Few ever win an NCAA title at Gonzaga? (And what does that say about the idea of “mid-majors?”)

If you’re an average individual, chances are you know Gonzaga University because of the above clip — John Stockton went there — or because of the below clip: Secondary note of importance: that UCLA-Gonzaga game may be one of the… Continue Reading

Here’s the broader lesson in Mercer beating Duke in the first major upset of the 2014 NCAA Tournament

The Mercer team had seven seniors. The four guys with the most points for Mercer — Gollon, Coursey, Hall, and White Jr. — are all seniors. They’ve quite possibly played about 100 games together, and had countless more practices. Duke’s five starters contained one senior… Continue Reading

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It’d be a major long-shot, but Anthony Boone might be the next major college football hero

The ACC Football Championship is this Saturday evening, around 8pm, commencing from Charlotte, NC. On one side, you have the No. 1 team in the country in Florida State — 12-0 and their closest game this year was a two-touchdown victory —… Continue Reading