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Photo by Ian Maule/Getty Images The Tournament’s top overall seed is residing in a region that likely presents the toughest road for the one. Welcome to our coverage of the 2025 NCAA Tournament! The best event in sports is here and we will be as well, providing step-by-step previews of each region and breaking down what to watch for and who to keep an eye on during the … [Read more...] about 2025 NCAA Tournament Preview: South Region

Your reward for winning the MAC? Arizona. | Ken Blaze-Imagn Images The big names get a favorable draw in a region where some of the double digit seeds are weaker Welcome to our coverage of the 2025 NCAA Tournament! The best event in sports is here and we will be as well, providing step-by-step previews of each region and breaking down what to watch for and who to keep … [Read more...] about 2025 NCAA Tournament Preview: East Region

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Well, it all comes down to this. Xavier can't change the resume, so now we wait It all comes down to this. A season that tipped off before the leaves were off the trees hangs in the balance. Xavier's fate will be decided by 12 basketball adjacent people in a room. The field is essentially filled already, just the last couple decisions … [Read more...] about Selection Sunday Musings

This guy deserved far better | Frank Bowen IV/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images It hurts to care this much. A peak behind the curtain here. I’m a guy with four decades in my rearview, I have Pat Kelsey levels of domestic happiness, I don’t wear sweatpants to work, but I have a good job, and I get to coach high school soccer. My life is objectively good. … [Read more...] about Love is pain

Calling on all (Luis)Angels to aid my Musketeers | Photo by Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Are you a Xavier fan hoping to see enough teams torpedo their chances today to get the Muskies in? Same. Here is who to watch. There is a sense in which things could have gone better from a Xavier perspective yesterday. North Carolina and Texas both won and, … [Read more...] about Bubble Watch: Rabbit Out Of The Hat Time Edition