Thursday, March 22, 2012

Sweet 16

  • BOSTON (AP) — There are 347 schools playing Division I mens basketball. Thirteen are from Ohio. Four of those are among the 16 teams still playing in the NCAA tournament. Only one calls itself The Ohio State University.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • There are a ton of reasons to tune in to the Sweet 16 today and Friday. Here are 16, one for each team: 1.
  • (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
  • Nearly every season at the Final Four, I hear people say the teams should be re-seeded to ensure that the most deserving ones meet in the title game. This week in Kings Court, lets take it a step further. Lets re-seed the Sweet 16.
  • (ESPN)
  • Much has been made of the absence of Syracuse center Fab Melo, who was ruled ineligible days before the tournament began. While the Orange have missed Melo's defensive presence in the middle, Rakeem Christmas has stepped up to average 7.0 points and 9.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • Coaches: Jim Boeheim (Syracuse); Bo Ryan (Wisconsin).
  • (USA Today)
  • There has been talk that the NCAA should consider shrinking the womens tournament to 32 teams, perhaps even 16.
  • (Hartford Courant)
  • WLKY.com The University of Kentucky, University of Louisville and Indiana University basketball teams are getting ready for the Sweet 16 of the NCAA basketball tournament.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • PHOENIX — For much of the season, reserve forward Will Yeguete was the key to Florida's full-court press, its best interior defender and their most prodigious rebounder. But Yeguete has a broken left foot and is out for the rest of the season.
  • (Washington Post)
  • The 2012 NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament settles into its Regional Semifinals (4th Round) this week as the Sweet 16 tip off to see who will make the Elite Eight and, by the time the weekend concludes with a subsequent round played, the Final Four.
  • (Examiner)

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