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NCAA Basketball Championships: Hail, Carolina (north and south)

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 8:19 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

In my original commentary, I posited the improbable prospect of South Carolina emulating UConn by having both women and men win their respective championships. Sure enough, Carolina women and men won. It’s just that the feat was more north-south than south-south. For the women’s championship, South Carolina played a Mississippi team that seemed still in… Read more.

NCAA March Madness — and Then There’s the Women of UConn

Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 7:12 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournament as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” inherent in low-seeded (a.k.a. Cinderella) teams upsetting top-seeded ones — often with buzzer-beating hail marys. Except that this year’s tournament hasn’t quite lived up to that hype. After all, the… Read more.