Tag Archives: NCAA Tournament
This Week in the NCAA: Big changes for women’s basketball
Women’s basketball will have a decidedly different look beginning this fall, as the NCAA has adopted a series of rules changes, including splitting games into four 10-minute quarters, rather than two 20-minute halves. In the latest installment of This Week in the NCAA, we hear from Anucha Browne, the Vice… Read More »This Week in the NCAA: New rules in men’s basketball
Some major changes are coming to college basketball for the 2015-16 season, including a reduction in the shot clock from :35 to :30. Other changes to increase scoring and the pace of play include a reduction in the number of second-half timeouts for each team and the elimination of a… Read More »
Great Moments in Tournament History: U.S. Reed’s Half-court Heave
The year was 1981 and Arkansas was trailing the defending champion Louisville Cardinals by a point late in the second half. The Razorbacks inbounded the ball to guard U.S. Reed, who managed to get only to center court before hoisting a shot in hopes of winning the game. Reed’s 49-footer… Read More »
Great Moments in Tournament History: Princeton upsets UCLA
Pete Carril and the Princeton Tigers were a constant thorn in the side of some of the biggest names in NCAA basketball history, as they’d taken Georgetown, Arkansas and Villanova down to the wire in the NCAA Tournament over the years. But it took until Carril’s 29th and final year as… Read More »
Great Moments in Tournament History: Valparaiso’s Bryce Drew ousts Ole Miss
The father-son duo of Homer and Bryce Drew certainly had upset on their minds when 13th-seeded Valparaiso took on fourth-seeded Ole Miss in the first round of the 1998 tournament. But they probably didn’t guess it’d come down to a final inbounds play that has become one of the most… Read More »
Great Moments in Tournament History: Charlotte Smith wins it for UNC
The 1994 Women’s National Championship came right down to the wire, with Louisiana Tech leading by two points with just 0.7 seconds left on the clock. Turns out, that was plenty of time for UNC’s Charlotte Smith, who knocked down a three-pointer as time expired to give the Tar Heels… Read More »
