Easily my favorite month in the entire calendar year is March. To me, March Madness is a holiday and I believe that the NCAA Tournament is the most entertaining tournament in all of sports. Today is March 1st, so every team in contention for receiving a bid to the big dance will be on edge for the next 17 days until Selection Sunday. For some, the end of the regular season is this Saturday, and for others, it is Saturday the 9th. For mid-majors, unless you are in a special circumstance, your goal is winning your conference tournament to receive…
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Zach Pretzer
College Basketball Enthusiast and a Sports Management Major at Northwood University.
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Mid-Major Top-25 Rankings 1Gonzaga2Nevada 3Wofford 4Buffalo 5Belmont6Utah State 7New Mex State 8Lipscomb 9Murray State 10UNCG11Hofstra 12Yale 13Liberty 14Furman 15UC Irvine 16Old Dominion 17San Fran 18Montana 19Fresno State 20South Dak State 21Vermont 22Texas State 23Jax State 24Stony Brook 25Toledo Mid-Major Notes To begin Week 16, Nevada received an upset from the upset-savvy San Diego State Aztecs for the Wolf Pack’s second loss of the year.Lipscomb is now in second place in the A-Sun, with a tough loss to FGCU. The Bison may need to win the A-Sun tourney or have a close loss to Liberty in the championship to reach the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year.Fresno State’s at-large chances are officially gone, with a horrible home loss to Air Force.Thursday of…
Every Monday, we will be releasing our updated college basketball rankings, with headlines from power conference teams. Top-25 Rankings 1Gonzaga2Duke 3Virginia 4Kentucky 5UNC6Houston 7Michigan State 8Marquette 9Michigan 10LSU 11Nevada 12Tennessee 13Texas Tech 14Kansas State 15Purdue 16Virginia tech 17Maryland 18Kansas 19Wisconsin 20Florida State 21Iowa 22Villanova23Louisville 24Wofford 25Cincinnati Top-25 Headlines Virginia continued rolling, beating rival Virginia Tech on the road. It feels like they are using getting swept by Duke as motivation. Purdue and Indiana played a disastrous offensive game given the talent level, but Purdue pulled it out, winning 48-46.Iowa’s heroics came to end at home, as they were unable to come back and beat Maryland in a ranked Big Ten matchup.As you may of heard, Zion Williamson “broke his shoe,” which led to…
Throughout the season, we will be posting our College Basketball Seed List to keep you up to date on the teams projected to make it to the big dance and what seed they would be. Also included is a look at the teams on the bubble of getting into the NCAA Tournament. The “Last 4 In” are the last four teams to get into the field and The “First 4 Out/Next 4 Out” gives the eight teams that barely missed the cut. A unique thing we are doing with our bubble this season is giving a list of potential bid…
March Madness is quickly approaching, and this article is meant to help us gauge who will fill the field of 68 come March 17th (Selection Sunday). “Locks” are teams that I believe are safely in the NCAA Tournament. “Work left to do” is simply what it says, meaning the team has some work to do to receive an at-large bid. Lastly, if a team does not make it in this article, I am giving them realistically no chance to make it, unless a miracle happens. A10 Locks: Conference Tournament Winner Work left to do: Davidson and VCU AAC Locks: Houston…
Every Monday, we will be releasing our updated college basketball rankings, with headlines from power conference teams. Top-25 Rankings 1Duke 2Tennessee 3Gonzaga4Virginia 5Kentucky 6Michigan 7Nevada 8Houston 9UNC10Marquette 11LSU12Kansas 13Louisville 14Michigan State 15Kansas State 16Villanova 17Florida State 18Iowa 19Texas Tech 20Maryland 21Iowa State 22Purdue 23Virginia tech 24Wisconsin 25Wofford Top-25 Headlines Virginia, who was swept by Duke on Saturday, bounced back in a fantastic game to kick off Week 15 beating the Blue Devils rival North Carolina Tarheels in Chapel Hill. In two intriguing ranked matchups in the Big Ten on Tuesday night, Maryland outscored Purdue 40-18 in the second half for a home win, and Michigan State picked up a great road win over Wisconsin.Michigan received a bad upset from Penn State…
Wednesday’s throughout the season we will be posting our Mid-Major Top-25 Rankings, highlighting the 25 best non-power conference teams, along with some mid-major notes. Mid-Major Top-25 Rankings 1Gonzaga2Nevada 3Wofford 4Buffalo 5Lipscomb 6Hofstra7UNCG8New Mex State 9Utah State 10Belmont 11Fresno State12Murray State13Yale 14Liberty15San Fran 16South Dakota State17Texas State18UC Irvine 19Old Dominion 20Vermont 21Northern Kentucky 22Stony Brook 23Furman 24Toledo 25Jax State Mid-Major Notes In a massive game to see which team would enter the bubble out of the Mountain West, Utah State beat Fresno State on the road to gain a major advantage in terms of the NCAA Tournament.Loyola Chicago regains first place in the Missouri Valley with a blow-out win over Drake.Wofford survives at ETSU…
Weekly throughout the season, we will be posting our power rankings of the major conferences. Also included is the status of each team in terms of the NCAA Tournament at this point in time. Each team will fit into one of these categories: in the tournament, bubble team, or out of the tournament. A10 1Davidson (In)2VCU (Bubble)3Dayton (Out) 4Duquesne (Out)5St Louis (Out)6George Mason (Out)7Rhode Island (Out)8St Bonaventure (Out)9St Joes (Out)10La Salle (Out)11GW (Out)12Richmond (Out)13Umass (Out)14La Salle (Out) AAC 1Houston (In)2Cincy (In)3UCF (Bubble)4Temple (Bubble) 5USF (Out) 6SMU (Out)7Tulsa (Out)8Memphis (Out) 9UConn (Out)10Wichita State (Out) 11ECU (Out) 12Tulane (Out) ACC 1Duke (In)2Virginia (In)3UNC (In)4Louisville (In)5VTech (In)6Florida State (In)7Syracuse (In)8NC…
Below is our updated NCAA Basketball Top-25 Rankings, with headlines from Week 13. Top-25 1Tennessee 2Duke 3Virginia 4Gonzaga5Kentucky 6Nevada 7Michigan 8UNC9Villanova 10Marquette 11Houston 12Virginia Tech 13Michigan State 14Iowa State 15Purdue 16Kansas 17Iowa 18LSU19Louisville 20Texas Tech 21Wisconsin 22Florida State 23Cincy 24Maryland 25Mississippi State Top 25 Headlines Michigan at least owns Ohio State in basketball, as the Wolverines coasted to an easy win over rival Buckeyes in Ann Arbor. However, Iowa played a fantastic game at home and they pulled off a huge upset over the Wolverines.Kansas is upset once again by a team who desperately needed a win in Texas, but the Jayhawks bounced back in an impressive way, blowing out Texas Tech in Lawerence.Houston remains a one-loss team by defeating Temple,…
Throughout the season, we will be posting our College Basketball Seed List to keep you up to date on the teams projected to make it to the big dance and what seed they would be. Also included is a look at the teams on the bubble of getting into the NCAA Tournament. The “Last 4 In” are the last four teams to get into the field and the “First 4 Out/Next 4 Out” gives the eight teams that barely missed the cut. A unique thing we are doing with our bubble this season is giving a list of potential bid…