Sports in Perspective
Mizzou’s Frank Haith explained the Tigers’ first-round loss to Norfolk State saying they had not looked at film. Coach K of Duke said they lost because they didn’t know what a Mountain Hawk was. Other coaches also explained their losses in the 2012 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in this candid, yet not real, interview with coaches.
The 2012 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, March Madness, begins Tuesday night in Dayton, OH, with the “First Four” games. The top seeds for the tournament are the Kentucky Wildcats, the Syracuse Orange, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Tar Heels and the Michigan State Spartans. The big question – as always – where are the upsets coming from? Which No. 5 seed will lose to a No. 12 seed…it always happens! Can Mizzou, after 25 appearances in the tournament, finally get to the Final Four? These questions…and more…will be decided over the next three weeks, ending with the Final Four teams in New Orleans.
The race for National Player of the Year in college basketball has clearly become a two man race based on the performances this past weekend by Kentucky’s Anthony Davis and Kansas’ Thomas Robinson.
Outside of a certain night in the middle of October, high school talent like what’s about to sit in Allen Fieldhouse on February 25th, rarely join in on a once in a lifetime trip to watch a once in a lifetime game.
Bill Self checked in a couple of recruits on Valentine’s Day yesterday in Las Vegas and scored his dream date when it was reported that the #2 player in the Class of 2012, Shabazz Muhammad, would make an official visit to Lawrence, KS for an upcoming game. The 6′-6 Muhammad has narrowed his choice to [...]
As the college football season comes to an end, the sports world now shifts to basketball. And while to many college basketball fans, the current season is enough to quench their tastes, there are a few that always seem to yearn for things to come, and for them, we give you all the answers to [...]
Bill Self has seen his team knocked out in the early rounds when it comes to getting some of the top talent to Lawrence in the past few years.
As was reported here earlier in the week, the number 52 overall player in the class of 2012, Andrew White, has committed to play for Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks.
Champions Classic: New York, New York While both sets of fans would have preferred this battle to have taken place during either of the past two seasons, both will settle for this renewed rivalry between two of college basketball’s true “blue bloods” on one of the biggest stages college basketball has seen in quite some [...]
Thomas Robinson will dunk on Anthony Davis’ uni-brow. There is no doubt that Davis has the potential to be the number one pick in the 2012 NBA draft, but Thomas Robinson fears no one, and will show Davis early what a “helment dunk” really feels like.