The Review-Journal’s Adam Hill and Todd Dewey compete with handicappers Kelly Stewart, Doug Fitz and Paul Stone in a contest covering NCAA Tournament games Thursday and Friday.
NCAA Tournament
Will a Wildcats team win the NCAA Tournament? Las Vegas radio host Brian Blessing bet Yes (plus-280) on the intriguing prop that includes Villanova, Kentucky, Arizona, Northwestern and Kansas State.
Chima Moneke had 18 points and 12 rebounds as UC Davis won in its first NCAA Tournament appearance, beating North Carolina Central 67-63 in a First Four game on Wednesday night.
The NCAA Tournament gets underway this week with First Round games on Thursday and Friday, and the madness continues into the weekend with Second Round games on Saturday and Sunday.
Imagine if they had to make those decisions before the season had even begun and then were singled out individually for just how wrong they were about so many of the teams.
Perhaps the most infamous bad beat in NCAA Tournament history took place in the 2004 Final Four, where Duke’s Chris Duhon banked in an otherwise meaningless 38-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer to burn Connecticut bettors in the Huskies’ 79-78 win.
As painful as it is for anyone associated with UNLV to cheer for UNR, if the Wolf Pack play well, they helps the Rebels and the Mountain West. The conference sent one team to the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row.
Here are the NCAA Tournament props posted at Station Casinos sports books.
How many picks will he get right? Or will his bracket be busted on Friday?
Two decades ago this month, Arizona’s basketball team won its only national title by beating Kentucky, a moment that caused many to believe a geographical shift of sorts had taken afoot in the college game.
The Review-Journal Sports department, and a few others, give you their Final Four picks and thoughts on who will win the NCAA Tournament.
Kamau Stokes scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half of a wide-open game on Tuesday night, and Kansas State’s balance was the difference as the Wildcats pulled away to a 95-88 victory over Wake Forest in the First Four.
The smallest player in Division I scored 23 points Tuesday night, including a go-ahead jumper with 1:27 to play, and Mount St. Mary’s held on for a 67-66 victory over New Orleans in the First Four.
Minutes after the University of Nevada, Reno clinched its first berth in the NCAA Tournament in a decade, Coach Eric Musselman had a message for his team.
Teams chasing a college basketball title are contending with an unexpected wrinkle that’s making last-minute travel plans difficult — a fierce storm bearing down on the Northeast that’s expected to dump up to two feet of snow in some places and create blizzard-like conditions.
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