Bubble Teams Buckle While Underdogs Play Free Championship week opened Tuesday with a wave of championship week upsets across all three power conference tournaments. The pattern was unmistakable: the teams everyone expected to win played tight, and the teams with nothing to lose played loose. The ACC, Big 12, and Big Ten all tipped off … Read more
The Day All Four Top Seeds Lost Saturday, February 21 was supposed to clarify the college basketball landscape three weeks before Selection Sunday. Instead, it detonated it. All four projected No. 1 seeds from the NCAA selection committee’s preliminary bracket reveal lost on the same day. Michigan, Houston, Iowa State and Kansas (the team closest … Read more
Five Top-10 Teams Fall on College Basketball’s Wildest Saturday The NCAA tournament selection committee picked a bad day to release its first bracket preview. Hours after the committee revealed its top 16 seeds on Saturday, the sport turned the projections into scrap paper. Five AP top-10 teams lost, including the No. 1 and No. 2 … Read more