I know it is the time of year for conjecture about the “Road to the Final Four” and who should be on it. However, at some point, maybe we need to “chill” and see how the current system plays out. After all, changing just to be changing doesn’t work and never did. I am definitely [...]
My ode to Bill Raftery ... I have been fortunate in my lifetime to have met some really great people. Back in my other life as a college basketball coach, I had the good fortune to be introduced to Bill Raftery, who at the time was the Head Basketball Coach at Seton Hall University. I [...]
For over 40 years I have been a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). And, as a member I have regularly attended its national convention. This event is always held at the site of the Final Four. Back in the day, the site for this event was rotated from an East Coast [...]
March Madness is upon us. What a great time of year given my love of the game of basketball. That is until I had to witness a game played in what is called the œFirst Four. These are the teams seeded sixty thru sixty-eight. The four winners fill out the field of sixty-four. The game [...]
The Ides of March is fast approaching, which signals that we are fully into that madness called college basketball and its NCAA Championship competition. Our media pundits are fully engaged in identifying who is in and who is out, and of course, who is on the œinfamous bubble. Its one of the very few occupations [...]
March Madness, strangely enough, will come to an end in April this coming weekend. Four teams left with an opportunity to win the NCAA Basketball Championship. In one bracket we have two teams representing programs that have a long history of being on the big stage: the University of Kentucky and not quite as long, [...]
March Madness comes to a screeching halt in, of all things, April. This weekend in Indianapolis, IN four teams will take their best shot at winning the NCAA Championship. One team will do so on what amounts to a home court. That would be Butler University, one of the two 5th seeds to make it [...]
We are in the time of year that has come to be known as œMarch Madness. This is a far cry from the first NCAA tournament in 1937 won by the œTall Firs of the University of Oregon. It was played on a college campus with very limited media coverage. Even my first Final Four [...]