The Men’s NCAA Final Four is set. https://twitter.com/MarchMadnessMBB/status/1774586902152151489 While UConn makes its return to to the big stage, the Final Four is uncharted territory for others. Alabama will play in the national semifinal for the first time in program history, while Purdue returns to the Final Four for the first …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Florida Baseball Making Things Interesting
The Back Nine comes at you after a great weekend and I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday. I know I did. 10. Let us start with baseball where the Gators had two walk-off wins in a series for the first time in 10 years. On Friday night, …
Read More »Alabama and Others Have Tickets Punched to Elite Eight
Half of the Elite Eight is set as UConn, Clemson, Alabama and Illinois have all punched their tickets to the next round. Out of four games Thursday night, three of them resulted in an upset. The first No. 1 seed fell as No. 4 Alabama took down No. 1 North Carolina. …
Read More »Oak Hall’s Monte Towe remembers N.C. State’s national title 50 years ago
Former Oak Hall boys basketball coach Monte Towe, a former point guard for North Carolina State’s 1973-1974 men’s basketball team, speaks on his experience helping the school win its first national basketball championship under former UF coach Norm Sloan, and what he’s been doing since on Sportscene with Steve Russell. …
Read More »ESPN’s Seth Greenberg’s Thoughts on March Madness
ESPN college basketball analyst Seth Greenberg gives his thoughts on the current state of March Madness, the disappointment of SEC teams, a potential sleeper team and officiating. SEC’s Misfortune Auburn and Kentucky were both defeated in dramatic upsets in the first round to 13th-seeded Yale and 14th-seeded Oakland, respectively. Both …
Read More »Texas A&M Loses Heartbreaker to Houston
The No. 9 seed Texas A&M Aggies lost an overtime thriller to No. 1 seeded Houston on Sunday in the second round of the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, 100-95. Final in Memphis. pic.twitter.com/DojPhDhU6H — Texas A&M Basketball (@aggiembk) March 25, 2024 With the loss, the SEC is …
Read More »Tennessee Men’s Basketball Reaches Sweet 16 For Second Straight Season
The Tennessee Volunteers, a No. 2-seed, are back in the Sweet 16. However, it’s the round they’ve struggled to get past in their tournament history. Reaching the Sweet 16 a total of 10 times, the Volunteers have reached the Elite Eight just once. That Elite Eight run came back in …
Read More »Sweet 16 Set, All No. 1 and No. 2 Seeds Remain
The Sweet 16 is set in the 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Although still in March, it seems as though the majority of the madness is over. The remaining contenders are seeded No.1-No.6 with the outlier being No. 11 NC State. All No. 1 and No. 2 seeds advanced to …
Read More »Pat Dooley’s Back Nine: Sure, ‘I had Yale beating Auburn’ In My Bracket
The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend that pretty much had every emotion possible. 10. Let’s start with what happened Friday evening and the depression that fell over Gainesville with the end of another basketball season. There was anger, there was pain, there was the stinging realization that …
Read More »NCAA Tournament: Gators Battle With Buffs, Eliminated 102-100
A single shot wiped away a comeback effort and career performance for Walter Clayton Jr. and the Florida Gators in March Madness. A KJ Simpson jumper with less than two seconds remaining Friday kept the 10 seed Colorado Buffaloes dancing and sent seven seed Florida home in the NCAA Tournament …
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