Archive for the 'Basketball' Category

Kentucky Steals Wild One

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Youth is not something that you would probably want in a big game, but Kentucky is abound with it. John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe are all freshmen, but all scored in double figures in the SEC Championship game againstĀ the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Wall scored 7 of his 17 total points in the overtime [...]

Knicks Halt Mavs 13 Game Win Streak

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

After suffering their second worst lost in franchise history to the Dallas Mavericks on January 24th, the New York Knicks turned the tides on the streaking Mavs. In that January game, the Mavs posted 128 points, scoring 30+ in three of the four quarters of play. This time, it was the Knicks putting up three [...]

The True Underdogs

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

They have never earned an NCAA tournament bid. They have never won their conference tournament. They have never taken home a regular season title. They have never even skeakedĀ out an NIT bid. But, on March 8th, the Wofford Terriers punched their ticket to the NCAA by defeating the Appalachian State Mountaineers in a gutsy performance [...]

The Real Sports Dynasty

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

72 straight wins. 16 Big East Titles. 6 National titles. Four 33+ win undefeated seasons. These numbers tell the story of the domination of the University of Connecticut Women’s basketball team. On March 9th, 2010 the UConn women broke their own consecutive wins record, beating West Virginia 60-32 for their 72nd game in a row [...]

Duke Smashes Helpless Tar Heels

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

It helps to have a Big Three. Especially if you do not have much else. Duke’s Kyle Singler, Nolan Smith, and Jon Scheyer combined for 65 of the Blue Devils’ 82 points, and combined on 44% shooting from the field and an unheralded 95.7% from the free throw line. However, the rest of the 9 [...]

Kuric’s 22 Buries #1 Syracuse

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

The Louisville Cardinals got a tremendous boost from an unlikely in Freedom Hall’s final game as an athletic venue. Backup shooting guard Kyle Kuric, who averaged 3.5 points all year, poured in 22 points in the second half on 9 for 11 shooting as the Louisville Cardinals downed the number 1 team in the nation [...]

3 Up, 3 Down

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

In what was a very low scoring affair, the Michigan State Spartans defeated the #3, Robbie Hummel-less Purdue Boilermakers 53-44. Purdue had held the two point advantage 28-26 over the Spartans at the half, but the loss of their star player showed, as they only scored 16 second half points on their way to being [...]

Anderson, Cowboys Slay #1 Jayhawks

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Led by a barrage of three-point shots, the Oklahoma State Cowboys used a 53% 3-point shooting mark to down the 1 loss Kansas Jayhawks in Stillwater. The Jayhawks came into the game looking for a win to stay undefeated this season in Big 12 play, but no one must have told junior James Anderson and [...]

Kentucky Suffers Second Loss

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

After the Tennessee Volunteers secured an 11-point halftime lead against the #2 ranked Kentucky Wildcats, things began to fall apart. The Vols had built up a 19 -point lead, but looked on in agony as the Wildcats — led by Demarcus Cousins — slowly erased that deficit. After working the entire half to come back, [...]

UConn Back in Tourney: For Now

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

With an 11-point win over the #7 team in the nation, the UConn Huskies are seemingly back in the discussion for an NCAA tournament bid. After starting off the season with non-impressive wins over teams such as Colgate, Hofstra, UCF, Boston, Maine, and Iona (as does every team in the nation) and jumping out to [...]