March Madness is one of the most exciting sports events of the year. In fact, the first Thursday and Friday of the tournament are my favorite days of the sports year. With an estimated 40 million Americans filling out their brackets annually, it’s almost inevitable that you will have the…
Welcome to the Top Level Sports bracket challenge! Here’s your chance to prove yourself as an expert March Madness prognosticator by joining the official Top Level Sports tourney pool on Yahoo. Here is the link: Join the Bracket Challenge! There is one important thing to note, however. I have decided this year…
The 2016 March Madness field has just been announced, and boy is there a lot to talk about. The selection committee made a number of interesting decisions, and many that I don’t personally agree with. However, with some of the resulting matchups and the widespread parity of this season, you…
Bracket Breakdown, the Top Level Sports Podcast’s new college basketball show, will come out every Monday until Selection Sunday. Here is the first episode.
We’ve finally hit 2016, and in terms of college basketball, that means two things. First, non-conference play has wrapped up, and conference play is underway. Second, the focus becomes more and more on resumes and bracketology as Selection Sunday in March gets closer and closer. For those of you unfamiliar, bracketology…
The most exciting team in college basketball this season isn’t a school that’s used to being high in the rankings and competing for National Championships- in fact, they’ve never been nationally ranked, and have never been seeded higher than #13 or advanced past the first round of March Madness. However,…
Friday night, the Golden State Warriors won a back-and-forth affair against the Chicago Bulls, finally pulling away midway through the fourth quarter to a 106-94 victory. Many claimed this would finally be the night the Warriors were defeated, but as Thursday’s incredible 23-point comeback at the Clippers proved, as long…
The 2014-15 NBA Season saw the predictable continuation of a longstanding problem: the Eastern Conference is laughably weak compared to its cross-country counterpart. It seems year after year the Western Conference has an incredibly competitive playoff race which sees a good team miss the postseason whereas the East routinely sees…
On April 30, 2015, the Oklahoma City Thunder hired former Florida head coach Billy Donovan to replace Scott Brooks, who was surprisingly fired after what was by any measure an impressive seven-year stint with the team, including a .620 winning percentage, five playoffs appearances and an unsuccessful trip…
Over the past few weeks the NBA has seen a surge in intentional fouls on poor free-throw shooters, particularly the Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan and Rocket’s Josh Smith and Joey Dorsey. In the last couple of seasons, the league has also seen players such as Dwight Howard, Andre Drummond, Omer…