No buy-in?  An offer of an NQTC T-shirt as a prize that I may or may not follow-through on?  You know what those things mean, don’t you?  They mean that its time for our annual NQTC tourney challenge bracket.  The winner will get an NQTC t-shirt (I swear I’ll hook it up this time, and [...]

There were 48 basketball games this weekend and a quick count gives me 11 wins by the teams with the worse seeds.  A year after the first time that four 1-seeds went to the Final Four, we have experience the first opening weekend in which all 1 through 3-seeds advanced to the Sweet 16.  The [...]

Yesterday was another great day in college basketball.  Two overtime games and a ton of upsets.  Once again here are my brief observations of every game:
Louisville 74 Morehead State 54: I never thought this game was in doubt, although Morehead State kept it interesting well into the second half.  The full-court press by the Cardinals [...]

There are times during the year that are just plain awesome.  I’m not sure that any of them are quite as good as the middle of March through the start of April.  This week we have conference tournaments, bubble talk, and Selection Sunday at the tail end of the weekend.  Then we get a few [...]