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NCAA Basketball Tournament – The Road to the Final Four

brad.bruner — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:33:44 +0000

It’s been a pretty wild ride to this year’s NCAA Basketball Final Four in Houston. Lots of drama, lots of upsets, and the most unlikely group of teams to ever survive all the way to college basketball’s last weekend. Here are some photos, from the 2011 edition of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, which will [...]

NCAA Basketball Tournment Round-Up – Cinderellas In the Final Four

brad.bruner — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:31:25 +0000

Virginia Commonwealth University and Butler will meet Saturday in the most unlikely Final Four match up in NCAA Tournament history.

Led by Jamie Skeen’s 26 points, 11-seed VCU continued their impressive run of giant slaying with a surprisingly easy 71-61 victory over the one-seed Kansas Jayhawks.

Eight-seed Butler punched their ticket to Houston with a thrilling 74-to-71 overtime win over the Florida Gators, making their 34-year old coach Brad Stevens the youngest man to ever twice coach his team to the Final Four.

Barack Obama Picks Kansas to Win The National Championship

brad.bruner — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:15:19 +0000

Barack Obama didn’t take a whole lot of risks when filling out his NCAA Tournament brackets. The President has all four number one seeds — Duke, Pittsburgh, Ohio State and Kansas — advancing to the Final Four, with Kansas winning it all. This is the second straight year Obama predicted the Jayhawks to take the [...]

ESPN Employees Banned From Filling Out NCAA Tournament Brackets

WGBF-AM — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:05:09 +0000

In workplaces all over America, folks spent Thursday morning scrambling to get their NCAA tournament brackets filled out before it was too late. Not so at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. That’s because employees at ESPN — which had been promoting its bracket challenge front and center on its website — are banned from any [...]