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…
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,…
*This is a research paper done for my English class, debating the pros and cons of giving college athletes compensation for their hard work from a neutral perspective. There are more than 460,000 NCAA student-athletes in the United States, and their games are watched and loved by millions. However, while…
If you choose (for whatever reason) to use these picks, and they end up horrible, please don’t blame me! No matter how many hundreds of hours I spend watching games and researching, I never end up with a great bracket…I’m usually really good in the first round, and then after…
This edition of Connoracketology uses games played through March 3rd to determine its seed rankings. The bubble has shrunk. It’s the phrase no one wants fighting for the last few tournament spots wants to hear. But that’s exactly what has happened. By taking the lead in their respective conferences, Boise…
In 2005, then NBA commissioner David Stern passed what would be at the time called Article X, something now known as the highly debated “One and Done” rule. Originally intended as a way to prevent high school basketball players from going straight the NBA, which it has done, many unforeseen…