The Review-Journal’s Adam Hill, Kelly Stewart and Matt Youmans compete against handicappers Bruce Marshall, Paul Stone and Ken Thomson in a contest covering NCAA Tournament games today and Friday. Each contestant selects 16 games against the spread, sides or totals, choosing from the 32 second-round games on the betting board. Fifteen of the picks are worth one point, and a Best Bet counts for two points. The national champion pick is the tiebreaker.
NCAA Tournament
Every year, the NCAA Tournament gives employees a reason to goof off at their desks and root for their alma maters. But there’s a growing source of potential headaches for bosses.
“Why wouldn’t you want to be here?” Hank Goldberg asked rhetorically before he, local radio talk show host Brian Blessing and Sunset sports book manager Chuck Esposito held court in front of several dozen bettors looking for some last-second insight before making their wagers on this year’s tournament
Michigan State’s up-and-down team might be peaking at just the right time.
College basketball fans, start your brackets. March Madness kicks into high gear this week with the start of the NCAA Tournament, the time hoop-heads circle the calendar like it’s Christmas.
UCLA vs. Arizona; New Mexico vs. San Diego State: SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt says Las Vegas was the place to be for the prelude to March Madness.
It’s cool to be popular in high school. It’s not always a positive sign to be the public’s hot pick in the NCAA Tournament, so maybe Michigan State coach Tom Izzo should be concerned.
The WAC moved into The Orleans on Wednesday morning, but nobody not on the conference payroll can guess the nine basketball teams. The answer is: Utah Valley, Texas-Pan American, Missouri-Kansas City, Idaho, Chicago State, Grand Canyon, Cal State Bakersfield, New Mexico State, Seattle U.
Correctly predicting the outcome of every game in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is no layup. There’s now a $1 billion prize waiting for anyone able to pull off the feat this spring.
The fear two days later: That what we saw in the championship game of the NCAA Tournament on Monday night is an aberration, a tease, an exception to the rule that insists college basketball has lost its way at the offensive end.
Jerry Tarkanian’s long basketball journey is finally complete.
When he reached the stage, supported along the ballroom path to such an exclusive group by a walker, Jerry Tarkanian was helped up a few stairs to basketball immortality.
History is meant to be judged, and yet each classic that has been a national championship game of the NCAA Tournament has owned a unique significance.
Rick Pitino became the first coach in NCAA history to win men’s basketball championships with two teams, as his Louisville Cardinals defeated Michigan in the championship game in Atlanta 82-76.
