MILWAUKEE -- Enduring a relentless line of questions from reporters on Saturday, Jordan Crawford explained the flow of a first-round NCAA tournament game that stamped his face and an image of his aerial theatrics into America's living rooms. Sunday brings... READ MORE
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MILWAUKEE -- Enduring a relentless line of questions from reporters on Saturday, Jordan Crawford explained the flow of a first-round NCAA tournament game that stamped his face and an image of his aerial theatrics into America's living rooms. Sunday brings... READ MORE
Buried in the corner with the shot clock winding down, the Xavier guard faded back and lofted up a 3-point shot that splashed away Minnesota's postseason hopes.
As the dagger shot dropped, Jordan Crawford fell back into the arms of his teammates standing at the Xavier bench. The team he carried to a 65-54 win returned the favor.
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Notes on Xavier's ability to dictate the tempo in the second half, Jason Love's sluggish game, a rematch with Pitt and Jordan Crawford's inspiration from Armon Bassett. READ MORE
The Xavier way involves fighting a lack of respect every step on every step of the difficult journey maneuvering through a non-BCS conference to some of the biggest stages college basketball has to offer. READ MORE
Notebook on Dante Jackson's big-shot history, Chris Mack's first NCAA tournament game, the contrast in styles between Xavier and Minnesota and Terrell Holloway's Christmas. READ MORE
COLUMBUS -- Last year the Buckeyes entered their first round game in Dayton with zero NCAA Tournament experience on the active roster, and it showed. OSU surrendered an 11-point second half lead and eventually lost in double-overtime to Siena. "Yeah,... READ MORE
The University of Cincinnati Bearcats entered Wednesday's night NIT team game feeling like a team placed in the wrong tournament. In a 76-62 blowout of Weber State, they played like it. As Darnell Wilks rose above the Wildcats defenders for... READ MORE
All signs -- billboard included -- are pointing toward Zach Collaros stepping to center stage for the Cincinnati Bearcats. But as the Butch Jones era began on Wednesday for the first day of spring practice, Jones said that has not been decided yet and that is just fine with his quarterback. READ MORE
Somewhere amid the blur of texts and transfers, hirings and firings, violations and allegations, Jordan Crawford's NCAA tournament debut came and went. It ran the same confusing, frustrating course as the rest of his freshman season at Indiana. READ MORE
Over the next three weeks the Cincinnati Bearcats can make a statement about the talent on this team. They can make a statement about an ability to win games in March. Most importantly, they can make a statement about why they won't be on the outside looking in 365 days from now. READ MORE
Xavier will play Minnesota to open the tournament and were placed as the No. 6 seed, but they are trying not to look forward to a possible second-round matchup with a Pittsburgh team that eliminated the Musketeers last season. READ MORE
Before the season began, Mick Cronin hoped he would be talking with the media on Selection Sunday and discussing his first round opponent. Neither he nor his team expected it to be in the NIT. Despite an admirable showing in... READ MORE
Thad Matta has become a skilled net-cutter. Ohio State snipped the nets and hoisted a trophy for the second time in two weeks by cruising to a 90-61 win over Minnesota in the Big Ten Tournament championship game at... READ MORE
Evan Turner and Demetri McCamey have done this before. A lot. The two point guards have been playing basketball with or against one another since grade school. In 2007, they were both four-star, top-100 recruits coming out of St.... READ MORE
INDIANAPOLIS -- For 39 minutes and 58 seconds, Michigan's Manny Harris played like the Big Ten Player of the Year. Harris capped off a dazzling performance (26 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists) by canning a 15-foot jumper over the Big... READ MORE
INDIANAPOLIS -- Michigan used a 12-point advantage from the free throw line to get past Iowa 59-52 in the first round of the Big Ten tournament in Indianapolis on Thursday. The win advances the Wolverines to round two where they... READ MORE
COLUMBUS -- Great team, lacking depth. That's Ohio State in a buckeye nutshell. All year long the pundits have questioned whether the Buckeyes' thin ranks would be able to survive the grind of postseason play. Now, we get to find... READ MORE
Following a wild 3-point connection to tie the score between Rutgers and Cincinnati on Tuesday night, the ball came in-bounds to Lance Stephenson. Without a timeout, senior Deonta Vaughn ran near him and other players scurried in search of what... READ MORE
A perceived slight in the Atlantic 10 awards, NCAA tournament seeding, history of failure in Atlantic City and a first-round matchup against rival Dayton provide a long list of motivators for a Xavier team already locked into the Big Dance. READ MORE
Only two years after calling Gates, "the most talented big man I have ever recruited," Mick Cronin says the power forward has always been a project and questions why people assume he is supposed to be a force on the inside. READ MORE
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Fantastic interview. Extremely interesting. I hope Paul Janish is in the Reds future plans. (I also wish he could hit
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