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Becker: Don’t sleep on action in women’s NCAA Tournament

Courtney Becker | Monday, March 25, 2019

The greatest sporting event of the year is officially underway. March Madness is here, bringing with it a slew of exciting games and strong matchups in both men’s and women’s college basketball. Enough seems to be said about the men’s tournament — see, it’s not so hard to write “men’s” in front of “tournament” considering, you

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Carson: Mid-majors only hurt by conference tournaments

Alex Carson | Monday, March 21, 2016

In a year where we’ve seen so much parity at the top, so many upsets across the board and a record number of double-digit seeds winning in the NCAA tournament, it looked like a perfect year for Valparaiso and Monmouth to make deep tournament runs, the kinds that could have put them aside George Mason, the

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Wojciak: The Do’s and Don’ts of March Madness

Tyler Wojciak | Friday, March 20, 2015

It’s that time of year again. The time of year when nearly everyone you know claims to have a significant interest in three weekends of college basketball, even if they have not watched a single regular season game. The time of year when everyone appoints themselves “experts” when it comes to their ability to pick