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-47 posts tagged "March Madness"
Hayden Adams | Monday, March 22, 2021
This will be my 210th byline with The Observer. That’s 210 more than I had ever anticipated writing for my collegiate student newspaper. Forget about me even imagining I would be the sports editor of said paper. To be quite honest, this all sort of fell into my lap. Three years ago, as I think
Jimmy Ward | Thursday, March 18, 2021
How do you summarize a three-week-long tournament that combines 64 teams and about double as many storylines surrounding those teams, their players and coaches? For CBS and TBS that job has been pretty self-explanatory for the past 35 years: Dub a montage of all the best moments to the sweet sound of David Barrett’s “One
Jamison Cook | Friday, March 5, 2021
March has arrived, and that means it’s tournament time. It seems absurd that it has already been 12 months since the pandemic robbed us of the basketball heaven that is March Madness (among other things). For those of us who suffered even more in quarantine due to the absence of 12-5 upsets, buzzer-beaters and bracket-busting
Hayden Adams | Tuesday, August 4, 2020
If you’re reading this column, you probably fall into at least one of the following groups: 1) You are a first-year during Welcome Week checking out the student newspaper for the first time (thank you very much and keep up the support!), or 2) You’re a Notre Dame sports fan wondering what in the hell
Aidan Thomas | Friday, May 1, 2020
In order to help cope with the loss of the most important month of college basketball, the Observer Sports Department put together a full bracket of games based on the latest available Bracketology. All results were voted on within the department, and all of the actual gameplay was simulated within the brain of sports writer
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, April 16, 2020
And we are into the Final Four and Championship. A 1-seed, 2-seed, and a pair of 3-seeds survived their regions to make it to the semifinals. But who’s taking home the prestigious Observer-voted National Championship? Let’s find out. No. 1 Kansas def. No. 2 Florida State 83-72 Florida State was named the ACC champion based
Observer Sports Staff | Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Well into the Elite Eight, we are just one day away from crowning the prestigious Observer Sports Department-Voted National Champion of the college basketball world. Only a pair of 1-seeds have survived this far… would they both forge on to the Final Four? No. 1 Kansas def. No. 2 Kentucky 81-75 Kentucky jumped out to
Observer Sports Staff | Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Yesterday, we saw the top two seeds in the Midwest Region advance, as Kansas and Kentucky set up a potentially thrilling battle in the Elite Eight. Fourth-seeded Maryland swung an upset over Dayton to earn a match-up with Florida State. In today’s half of the Sweet Sixteen, we have some intriguing contests that stirred up
Observer Sports Staff | Tuesday, April 7, 2020
The first half of our Sweet 16 featured two No. 6 seeds that pulled out surprises in the Round of 32, but advancing to the Elite Eight would require another upset. Will it be chalk, or will we see some underdog magic No. 1 Kansas def. No. 4 Wisconsin 80-72 Wisconsin boasts a lot of
Observer Sports Staff | Monday, April 6, 2020
We are one region away from moving into the Sweet 16. Two regions thus far boasted surprising upsets, with a pair of six-seeds advancing, but our last region was nothing but chalk. Any surprises coming today? Not a single game here was unanimous with our voters, so these decisions are getting tougher, but let’s see