Mar 16, 2021
Editor s Note: Welcome to Morning Madness, SI s daily newsletter during the NCAA tournament. We ll provide you with insight, analysis, picks and more from our college hoops experts.
Upsets are always a major theme across the first weekend of March Madness, when after days of people debating which lower-seeded programs can pull them off, it s finally time for those teams to prove it on the court. But we re not here to talk about the Cinderellas in this edition of Morning Madness; instead, we re here to talk about the men s teams you
should trust in the first round.
While we do live in a post-UMBC-beating-Virginia world, we re not going to take the easy way out and include No. 1 seeds here. However, here s eight others that we feel confident telling you to pencil in.
Feb 15, 2021
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball, where the Drake-Loyola Chicago feud has now supplanted the Drake-Pusha T feud as the best Drake feud:
SEEDING DILEMMAS
We’re inside a month until Selection Sunday, which means the Bracketology machinery will be running overdrive. Dozens of game results will be viewed through the prism of the NCAA tournament: who is in, who is out, what seeds should be assigned to those on the right side of the bubble.
The men’s basketball selection committee gave us the annual sneak preview Saturday, and there wasn’t much controversial about it but that doesn’t mean that creating the final product is going to be easy. With the varied number of games played, the truncated nonconference schedules and the X factor COVID-19 pauses, there could (and probably should) be a considerable range of opinions in the committee room.