NCAA Final Four

I've often talked about the dirtiest, most filthy city in America. It's not Detroit or New York; it's New Orleans. And now, because of the Final 4 basketball championships coming to town, we are all about cleaning it up.  This happens every few years...

The thought first entered C.J. Woollum's head not long after his name entered the record books. As he stood in a confetti shower on a Tuesday night in late February after becoming the first Division III men's coach in Virginia to win 500 games, it...

College basketball season openers when Division-One Top 25 teams host NAIA opponents are not usually must-attend events. However, Saturday afternoon the eighteenth-ranked Butler Bulldogs hosted Marian University in a game that was a really big deal to...

Former Northern State men's basketball coach Don Meyer will be nationally honored during Final Four weekend in Houston. The now special assistant to the NSU president will receive the Guardians of the Game Pillar Award for Leadership from the National...

March 30 1986 - Duke and Louisville reached the NCAA men's basketball championship with semifinal wins over Kansas and LSU. 1991 - North Carolina is to meet Kansas and Duke is to face UNLV in the NCAA men's basketball Final Four semifinal matchups....

The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament can be a frustrating experience for fans trying to predict the 65-team bracket. With 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 different combinations of results for predicting a perfect bracket (according to mathematicians), it's far...

Lots of talk lately about expanding the NCAA Men's basketball tournament from 65 to 96 teams. I would have to vote against such a measure even though expansion of just ONE team would have perhaps saved my beloved Mississippi State Bulldogs this year. By...

Chicago - Brad Stevens had better start warming up his arm - and his vocal chords. The Chicago Cubs have invited the Butler basketball coach to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before their game against the Florida Marlins on May 10. The 33-year-old...

One of the best things about sports is its unpredictability. Try as we might to prognosticate the outcome of events and tournaments prior to them taking place, the results often surprise us. The NCAA tournament is a perfect example of how three magical...

The fifth-seeded Bulldogs are appearing in the " Sweet 16" for the fourth time in program history, and the third time in the last eight years. Butler, which hasn't lost a game since bowing to UAB (67-57) in non-conference action back on December 22nd, ran...

The countdown to the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Final Four® is underway, as a semi-truck and trailer carrying the Championship Court made by Connor Sport Court stops on Wednesday, March 24 at the University of Notre Dame, near South Bend....

The Mid-American Conference announced its 2010 football schedule with a minimum of 19 regular-season national television games on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPN360.com highlighting the conference schedule. Ball State's game at Buffalo Fri., Nov. 12, is...