NCAA Basketball

The End of March Madness: Hail, Women of Baylor, Men of Virginia!

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 7:50 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat” of watching low-seeded teams (a.k.a. Cinderellas) upset top-seeded ones — often with buzzer-beating hail marys. Unfortunately, the tournaments rarely live up to this hype, respectively. True to form,… Read more.

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.