By The Numbers: Eagles Flying High
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By The Numbers: Eagles Flying High

Tim Israel- This weekend was the weekend of the Eagles. Not the Philadelphia Eagles. Not the Boston College Eagles. Not the Marquette Golden Eagles, although they did have an exciting weekend. It was the Eagles of Florida Gulf Coast University who stole the show on Friday and Sunday, capping off one of the greatest feats in NCAA … Continue reading »

Stoop Madness: Breaking A Barrier
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Stoop Madness: Breaking A Barrier

Tim Israel-  Harvard is an academic institution known for sculpting students into well respected, high-income, successful people after college. According to usnews.com’s 2012 rankings of the World’s Best Universities, the 20,000 student school in Cambridge, Massachusetts was third, and number one in the nation. The Ivy League school is known for being one of the … Continue reading »

Stoop Madness: South Region Preview
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Stoop Madness: South Region Preview

Tim Israel- In a season full of upsets and mid-major-power 6 equality, the March Madness bracket is presenting itself as the most unpredictable tournament in recent memory. As I look through the bracket and read each first round match up, seeding is meaningless in many of them. Oklahoma State is a 5-seed playing the Pac-12 … Continue reading »

By The Numbers: Conference Tournaments
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By The Numbers: Conference Tournaments

Tim Israel- 68 teams get the privilege of seeing their name in the NCAA Tournament Bracket each year. That’s at most 1,020, or one fifth of all the Division 1 college basketball players in the country, who get to experience the excitement of hearing their name called on Selection Sunday. Every year during the second … Continue reading »