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DeJuan Blair Closes Door on College

Pitt sophomore forward, DeJuan Blair was at the very least going to test the NBA draft waters. Most mock drafts have Blair being drafted mid-way in the first round despite being a 6-7 power forward. Blair has decided that he will not even pretend that there is a chance that he will come back to Pitt. He has retained an...

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...

Reynolds Dashes to Detroit

Scottie Reynolds has hit a lot of shots for Villanova, but never, ever, ever one quite like this.Ladies and gentlemen, we may have just witnessed the last Big East game of the 2008-09 season. If Louisville wins Sunday and Villanova wins again next Saturday, we get two more, but there's no guarantee. It's possible that this...

NCAA Bans DeJuan Blair's Bicep Bands ... Or Maybe Not

Update: Blair is wearing the bands during the Panthers' Elite Eight game against Villanova. The earlier report from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said the bands would be banned if there wasn't a medical reason for their use. So we can only assume Blair has some ailment solved by the medical treatment of looking like a bad...

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...

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