Tag: Men’s Basketball

  • Teams With the Most Final Four Appearances

    Teams With the Most Final Four Appearances

    Of the seven men’s basketball programs to make the NCAA Tournament Final Four 10 times or more, only North Carolina have done it in 2016. From the rest of the group, which includes Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, Ohio State and UCLA, the Bruins are the ones on the longest current drought, failing to make it eight years in a row.

  • Longest Active NCAA Tournament Droughts for Power Conference Teams

    Longest Active NCAA Tournament Droughts for Power Conference Teams

    The NCAA Tournament is in the air everywhere you look around, but some teams haven’t been in it for a long time. In fact, there are 10 teams from the power/major conferences (which we decided the Big East belong in) that haven’t played in it for the last 8 years, including one that’s never been there. This season, for some of them, the drought is about to end.

  • College Basketball Scores

    College Basketball Scores

    This weekend in Men’s Basketball was mostly about the Big 12 – SEC challenge with Oklahoma, the number one team in the country, holding off LSU in the Buddy Hield vs Ben Simmons matchup. Other high ranking teams that won were Kansas over Kentucky, North Carolina easily against Boston College and Texas A&M in the showdown with Iowa State.

  • Greatest College Basketball Teams All-Time Leading Scorers

    Greatest College Basketball Teams All-Time Leading Scorers

    It’s rare to see great college basketball players staying four or even three years at their schools these days. But who knows, maybe the scoring records at North Carolina, Kentucky, Duke, Kansas and other big-time schools will be broken one day.

  • 22 College Basketball Teams Still Undefeated in Conference Play

    22 College Basketball Teams Still Undefeated in Conference Play

    While there are no more undefeated teams in division I college basketball, we still have 22 teams without a loss in their conference.

  • College Basketball Scores

    College Basketball Scores

    The weather did stop two top 25 games from taking place (Providence vs Villanova, SMU vs Temple) but there was plenty of action besides that, as number one Oklahoma bounced back from their second loss of the season at Baylor, Kansas handled Texas, West Virginia overcame Texas Tech on the road and Michigan State got through a difficult test against Maryland.

  • Duke Don’t Even Deserve to be Ranked

    Duke Don’t Even Deserve to be Ranked

    It’s turning out to be a special season for Duke and Mike Krzyzewski, losing three games in a row following a home defeat to Syracuse, 64-62, and possibly falling out of the rankings for the first time in over eight years.

  • College Basketball Scores & Standings

    College Basketball Scores & Standings

    So what did we have among the top 25 teams on Saturday of January 16? Kansas and Oklahoma not impressing but avoiding more Big 12 losses, Notre Dame upsetting Duke, Maryland crushing Ohio State, North Carolina cruising past North Carolina State and Kentucky losing again, this time to Auburn, which shouldn’t be that big of a surprise.

  • Men’s Basketball January 4 Scores, Standings & Rankings

    Men’s Basketball January 4 Scores, Standings & Rankings

    Four games between five ranked teams were headlines by the number one vs number two showcase of Kansas and Oklahoma in the Big 12, delivering big time with the Jayhawks walking away victorious after three overtimes. Brice Johnson made some history for North Carolina against Florida State, Virginia were stunned by Virginia Tech and West Virginia had a big second half in a tough win over TCU on the road.

  • 2016 College Basketball Season – Rankings Don’t Change Much, For Now

    2016 College Basketball Season – Rankings Don’t Change Much, For Now

    The week 7 rankings of the AP Poll give us a similar lead in the top 25 to the previous week, with Michigan State holding on to the number one spot and the top 3, which include Kansas at number two and Oklahoma at number three, is unchanged. Kentucky fall to number 12 after their loss while Duke fall to number 15.