Archive for Basketball
Finding Meaning in the NIT
There’s something a bit different about March Madness this year. For the first time in years I won’t be posting pictures of BYU players wrestling Gators, prognosticating a first-ever NCAA Tournament Title for the Cougars or searching for some obscure cable TV station in the middle of the workday so I can catch a glimpse [...]
BYU Fans ROC the Marriott Center
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Basketball on Friday, football on Saturday. Can it get any better than this? On top of it all, mother nature blanketed Provo with a fluffy, white layer of snow. Hopefully a harbinger of a decent winter to come. In case you missed it, basketball season is upon [...]
2011-2012 May Be Dave Rose’s Best Coaching Effort Yet
This season, BYU coach Dave Rose didn’t win any coach of the year honors. He didn’t win a conference championship. In fact, his team didn’t even finish second. Yet 2011-2012 could be Rose’s best coaching effort yet. That’s saying something for a coach that’s accomplished so much. In his seven years at the helm, Rose [...]
Un-BYU-lievable Cougars Capture Historic Win
“What an exciting game,” said BYU head coach Dave Rose after BYU’s improbable victory. That’s a bit of an understatement after the Cougars completed the greatest comeback in NCAA Tournament history, recovering from a 25-point hole to beat Iona 78-72 in a 31-point swing on Tuesday night. After watching Western Kentucky’s razor-thin triumph against Mississippi [...]
Why BYU will Win the NCAA Tournament
Jeff Bergen, a mathematics professor at DePaul University, says the odds of picking the perfect NCAA Tournament bracket are small, as in astronomically small. In fact, Bergen says if you knew nothing about basketball, you’d stand a one-in-9.2 quintillion chance (that’s a 9 with 18 zeros behind it) that you’ll pick every single matchup correctly. [...]
