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Best in the Nation? Big 12 Thinks NCAA Field Will Prove Case

Over the next few days we can expect the debate about the nation's best conference to reach a feverish pitch. Is it the Big East or the Big 12 that has been the best conference top to bottom? Which of the two power leagues deserves more teams in next week's NCAA tournament field? Which conference has the most realistic...

TCU's BCS Championship Hopes Dashed

For a moment late Saturday night, many of us celebrated either internally or out loud as we watched the clock appear to run out on Texas and as the Nebraska Cornhuskers stormed the field at the end of the Big 12 Championship Game. The sanctum of the BCS had been slammed to the surface with the same fervor Nebraska...

Winners and Losers

It is as the sports Almighty intended it. For every winner, there is a loser (take that and your nil-nil ties, soccer!). For every Tiger Woods, there is a Detroit Lion. For every Isiah Thomas as a player, there is an Isiah Thomas as a general manager, league owner, boss and suspected poor Parcheezi player. And for every...

Izzo's Best Coaching Job: Quieting Critics

INDIANAPOLIS -- On his tippy toes, he might be 5-10, very easy to lose in the enormity of a football stadium where faces look like matrix dots and crowd noise drifts to the ozone. But no one strikes a larger pose in the Midwest today than Tom Izzo, public defender of the Big Ten's battered self-esteem. If trends and...

Postgame Thoughts -- 'Nova 77, Duke 54

Well, you don't have to look too hard to get the point of this night in NCAA Tournament history. The Big East won three of the four Sweet 16 games played tonight -- two of them easily. At this very moment, it's pretty hard to like Oklahoma's or Arizona's chances on Friday night, or Missouri's on Saturday. The Big East is...