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 UNC Asheville Bulldogs basketball team won the Big South Conference Tournament Satuday afternoon, defeating VMI 80-64, at Kimmel Arena. The top-seeded Bulldogs received the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and they will learn their seeding on Selection Sunday. Asheville dominated the tournament, winning three games and out-scoring their opponents by 68 points. They also won the regular season title by winning a record 16 games while losing just 2 in the conference.
Very pressed for time today after a late night of basketball Big South-style and very early Southern Conference games today…so I will be succinct. WOW! UNC Asheville has now played the three best halves of basketball of the season, starting with the second half of their quarterfinals game and continuing into last night’s game against [...]
The Big South Conference is adding Longwood University as its 12th member institution on July 1, 2012. For basketball, the league will split into two divisions – the North, consisting of the four Virginia-based schools (Longwood, Liberty, Radford and VMI) plus High Point and Campbell, and the South (Charleston Southern, Coastal Carolina, Gardner-Webb, Presbyterian, UNC Asheville and Winthrop) – beginning next season. The league’s post-season tournament will also be played at a single site for the first time ever beginning next year.
Top-seeded UNC Asheville advanced to the Big South Conference Semifinals with a convincing 86-61 win over No. 8-seeded High Point Wednesday night at Kimmel Arena. Five Bulldogs scored in double figures, and a 25-5 run midway through the second half gave the Bulldogs plenty of breathing room, after leading by 9 at the half.
Homecoming weekend at UNC Asheville provided the Bulldogs with two opportunities to get back on track heading into the Big South Conference tournament on Wednesday. Thursday night, coming off two consecutive losses, the Dogs righted the ship with a 71-61 win over Gardner-Webb and followed that up with a 67-55 victory over Winthrop on Saturday. [...]
We all know some mid-majors (and they hate that term) are going to make noise in the NCAA Tournament. It has been happening for years now…remember Butler from the last two tournaments? Northern Iowa beating Kansas? Right now, after watching a lot of basketball over the weekend, I am very impressed with a couple of [...]
They never had a chance. The UNC Asheville Bulldogs travelled seven hours on a bus to Athens, OH, where they took a real beating Saturday evening, losing to the host Bobcats 81-61. This game, part of the Sears ESPN Bracketbuster series, was about as ugly as they come. Ohio led from start to finish in [...]
The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers ended UNC Asheville’s ten-game Big South Conference road winning streak to an abrupt end Tuesday night with a 74-69 win in Kimble Arena. The Bulldogs were led by Matt Dickey’s 19 points.