It was supposed to be the perfect storm for North Carolina: A physical Michigan State team that knew what North Carolina would do, because they'd already seen it. A near home crowd with upwards of 70,000 fans. None of it...
Each year, CBS compiles the best moments from the NCAA tournament and sets it to one of the great tracks of musical cheese in history, called One Shining Moment. It's must see highlight reel footage, and it clearly hit the...
How about that game Monday night? It was one shining moment for the large state school that bested the other large state school. Woo-hoo! Go NCAA basketball participants!
It's sad that so many fans in Detroit burned cars in...
Charlie Coley III and Tony Dandrige. They don't quite strike the slam dunk fear that Dwight Howard, LeBron James and Nate Robinson bring to the table. That being said, Coley's dunks in the final round of the college slam dunk...
This year, there's only room for one minor Cinderella in the national title game, thanks to a dominant performance from the team that started the season and the tournament as the nation's most talented team. Despite the...
Michigan State's mascot is a Spartan. It should come as no surprise, then, that they're showing more fight than any other team in the NCAA Tournament. Now, with a home advantage on their side in Detroit, the Spartans are even...
Earlier this week, CBS officially reached a point of complete synergy, providing free tickets to the Final Four via its main game show, The Price is Right. Naturally, the show used CBS play-by-play man Jim Nantz to offer the...
We'll be honest: Dick Vitale is not exactly our favorite talking head. Sure, he's infectious, but so are a number of perilous South American diseases. Similarly, Vitale can make your evening a little uncomfortable, with both...
Throughout the tournament, Billy Packer and Bob Knight have been providing video analysis, via the unlikely source fantasyplayers.net (this from men who proclaim to not own a computer). In their first Final Four breakdown,...
ESPN's Dick Vitale is one of the most recognized voices -- and, because of that, faces -- in all of sports. His Final Four wasn't too far off the mark, and, not susprisingly, he's sticking with the favorites next weekend. But...
Entering the tournament, some argued that North Carolina and UConn had more talent than any other team in the NCAA field. Now we all get to see which deserves to end up on top. The Tar Heels thoroughly dominated an Oklahoma...
With all of the subplots swirling around UConn and Villanova's return 25 yeras after the school's first trip, Michigan State may enter the Final Four a bit overlooked. They shouldn't be after Sunday's thorough demolition of...
UConn is under more scrutiny than any other team in the NCAA Tournament. Coach Jim Calhoun is under fire for recruiting practices, their point guard A.J. Price -- whose checkered past includes a brain injury and laptop theft...
Two years ago, Scottie Reynolds was hyped as an early entrant to the NBA Draft and likely lottery pick. He passed up the chance to earn early riches to come back to school and, three years later, he's still at Villanova. Now,...
OK, so it was already a bit outdated after Tennessee knocked off the Tigers toward the end of the regular season. Still, this ode to the 07-08 Tigers, entitled "U Don't Know" (it's by Wee by the way) seemed a bit presumptive,...