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Great Expectations for All 16

What happens when the Sweet 16 is comprised entirely of storied powers? You get 16 teams all feeling the pressure to succeed. Ray Holloman takes an in-depth look at the expectations being heaped upon every team left in the Big Dance.There is no room here for the little guy. Were the Sweet 16 a country club, Tiger Woods...

Who's the Sweetest?

It's shaping up to to be one of the best Sweet 16s of all time with top-three seeds alive by the dozen. So who's heading back home in time for the weekend and whose moment will continue to be oh so shining? Find out as we rank the last 16 teams and explain why your favorite team is going to lose. We're 15/16 certain of...

West Region Breakdown: Did UConn Deserve No. 1 Seed?

You can't blame Jim Calhoun if he's whistling "Route 66" over the next couple of days because he certainly loves to travel west. Both of Calhoun's national championship teams, in 1999 and 2004, came out of the West Region. So Calhoun's probably feeling like a million bucks right now -- or $1.6 million bucks, as we all now...

Big Ten's Offseason of Rage Continues Unabated

Back in my day, Joe Tiller thinks, kids ate their oatmeal and watched Cocoon and didn't get drunk and stabbed unless someone was accused of being a glabdang Tory.The back-to-back housings of Michigan and Ohio State seem to have thrown the entire Midwestern football-industrial complex into a frenetic mania. As Charles Rich...

Terps Get Champs Sports Bowl ... How Exciting

Bowl bids are announced and Maryland will be facing Purdue at the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando on December 29th at 8PM. Although I'm glad that the Terps are going to a bowl, after the loss in the last two games, I started losing interest in what bowl we could go to. The prospect of a BCS bowl or the Gator bowl is...