The Cincinatti Kid thinks that the same Holy Cross team he tore down last Friday night is due for a serious beating at the hands of Southern Illinois, no matter what Bill Simmons' bracket says. Also sign up for the Sedition in Red Sox Nation Bracket Challenge. See if you can beat the kid at his own   more...
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Who will win? Im going with SIU for the upset.

Finally, those three days off between the second round and the Sweet Sixteen have passed, and once again we are blessed with March Madness. There are bound to be some great games over the next four days. At least, there better be. Aside from Saturday, the first weekend sucked, and on Saturday I was   more...
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Arch Madness starts the real fun, with the first tournament for a potential multi-bid conference. A look at the contenders, a cinderella pick, and a prediction. Get the rundown on what to watch for!
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Kenpom posted a chart that says the odds for all 16 remaining teams to move onto the Elite 8, Final Four, Championship game and to become the Champions. In case you were wondering, "The "Cinderella's Revenge" Final Four of Butler, Southern Illinois, Vanderbilt, and Tennessee has a .0009% chance of   more...
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Well yesterday we had Belmont, Winthrop and Austin Peay punch their tickets to the Big Dance, joining the Ivy Leagu regular season winner, Cornell, as the 4 teams who have clinched their spot in the NCAA Tournament.Today we have another automatic bid up for grabs, but there is a very interesting   more...
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The lack of upsets has led to phenomenal basketball. Though there's no Cinderella, the ball has gone on incredibly well and it's changed the way we look at college hoops. Not unlike how "Casino Royale" changed the way we looked at James Bond.
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Ohhhh, what a hangover. I haven't watched an NBA game in like what, since the NCAA conference tournaments began. Three televisions and DirecTV weren't enough. Games began at noon and ended at 2:15 in the a.m. Damn. What did I notice most? The first thing that jumped out at me is that NCAA refs are   more...
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For some reason, the state of Illinois has never reached the heights and consistency of the college basketball programs in places like Indiana and North Carolina. But while it certainly doesn't have an NCAA Tournament contender every season, the Land of Lincoln normally has at least a couple of   more...
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Following up the first installment of this two-part series last season, FIO staff writer Dan Mesday is back with his conference-by-conference outlook of the Mid-Majors in college basketball. However, just like part one, he invites fellow FIO NCAA writer, Dan Rossi, to lend his thoughts as well. See   more...
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So many games...so many teams...how does one pick a bracket? How can a sane person make heads or tails of 63 games? More importantly, how can one be successful at picking the winners in all those games...or at least enough winners to win whatever pool they are in? How? I haven't the slightest   more...
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