The College of the Southwest’s golfing teams have been earning the sort of travel acquainted to athletes at loads of small colleges — aboard a passenger van all-around sunset and immediately after a day of competitiveness — on Tuesday night when a pickup rumbled into watch. The truck, the Texas […]
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NCAA bracket predictions: College basketball model shares surprising March Madness 2022 tournament picks
The 2022 NCAA Tournament bracket includes nine teams from the Big Ten, but no school from the nation’s deepest conference earned a 1- or 2-seed. Purdue and Wisconsin are the two highest-seeded Big Ten teams, with Purdue at No. 3 in the East and Wisconsin at No. 3 seed in […]
College basketball rankings: Arizona wraps-up a No. 1 seed in Tommy Lloyd’s first season as a head coach
Getty Images Tommy Lloyd wasn’t a popular hire among former Arizona players last April for reasons that didn’t make much sense to most people who never played at Arizona. The backlash was … weird. Either way, I’m certain, everybody connected to the program is on board now because Lloyd, a […]
College basketball best players: Ranking top 50 in 2022
We’re one week away from the first full day of the 2022 men’s NCAA tournament, and the hype is building. But before we get to brackets, upsets and seedings, we’re setting the stage with the names you need to know for the next month. Heading into March Madness, Sports Illustrated […]
Lack of leadership again stings college football as divided interests squash playoff expansion
We’re owed an apology. All of us. The fans, the public — gosh, maybe even the unwashed media who staked out countless hotel lobbies in the rush to first learn about College Football Playoff expansion. All of it netted, well, nothing. At least for now. This long, protracted, overwrought journey […]
College basketball picks, schedule: Predictions for Michigan State vs. Illinois and other top games Saturday
Saturday’s college basketball slate comes in tandem with the 12:30 p.m. NCAA March Madness Men’s Bracket Preview on CBS, which means things are officially getting real. With just over three weeks to go until Selection Sunday, the NCAA Tournament picture is coming into focus, and a huge slate of games […]
College basketball picks, schedule: Predictions for Gonzaga vs. Saint Mary’s and other top games Saturday
The loaded slate of college basketball action on Saturday brings a ton of intrigue from noon ET until well past midnight, starting with No. 1 Auburn’s 12 p.m. tip against Texas A&M and lasting until No. 2 Gonzaga’s 10 p.m. tilt with No. 22 Saint Mary’s concludes. In between will […]
Gonzaga’s Chet Holmgren is unlike any college basketball player we’ve ever known: ‘I don’t see dudes do that’
SPOKANE, Wash. — Consider for a moment the millions of people who have ever played basketball. How many of them are truthfully unique with what they bring to the game? How many have skills or physical attributes that authentically separate them into a genre of one? Phenomenal players with compelling […]
NCAA men’s college basketball bets: Auburn-Arkansas, Illinois-Purdue
Top-ranked Auburn takes the court Tuesday night against Arkansas and, in the Big Ten, No. 13 Illinois and No. 3 Purdue have a rematch in Indiana with first place on the line. The stakes are getting increasingly high as we approach March and Kevin Sweeney joins me once again to […]
College football odds, lines, schedule for Week 9: Michigan, Georgia open as favorites in rivalry games
It’s the last weekend of October, which means things are heating up in division and conference title races around the country. The rivalry between No. 6 Michigan and No. 8 Michigan State headlines what should be a wild slate in Week 9, as the battle of undefeated Big Ten East […]