How weak is the bubble this year? Teams like Indiana and Georgia are projected as currently in or on the bubble despite being at or near the bottom of their respective leagues. Some projections I’ve seen include a small number of mid-major at-larges despite great games in leagues like the Mountain West, Missouri Valley and

I’ve never seen the LA Lakers as title contenders, pre- or post-Luka trade. I thought the defense, outside of the recently-departed Anthony Davis, was sketchy. I didn’t think LA had enough shooting to be a real threat. I thought the Lakers still relied too heavily on the 40-year-old, still really good, LeBron James. Something has

Each week we’ll take a look at the multi-bid leagues and try to determine who’d be in the field if the Dance started today, who’d be sweating it out come Selection Sunday, and who’s completely out of the field. ACC Locks (3): Duke, Clemson, Louisville Should be in (0) On the Bubble (2): Wake Forest

The Michigan State University men’s basketball team is one of the stories of the college basketball season so far. The Spartans are 18-3, 9-1 in the Big Ten. MSU has won 13 of its last 14 games. It’s the first time under hall of fame coach Tom Izzo that MSU has gone undefeated in December

In 2004 it was rumored that the LA Lakers called the Dallas Mavericks about a Shaquille O’Neal for Dirk Nowitzki swap. Mavs owner Mark Cuban hung up the phone. Cuban doesn’t own the Mavericks now, and if he did Luka Doncic wouldn’t be in LA now, in a trade that sends Anthony Davis to Dallas.

The elder statesmen of the NBA are all in an interesting place right now. For the first time that I can remember, none of LeBron James, Steph Curry or Kevin Durant are in position to make their respective teams title contenders. The Lakers continue to have a revolving door of coaches despite the front office’s

For the first time in my life as a sports fan something took my attention away from the NBA. Have you been watching college football? The season has been amazing. The implementation of the 12-team playoff brought more interest and made for more important, intriguing matchups over the course of the season. The NFL has

I think the committee got it right. The field for the first 12-team College Football Playoff is set and I think the committee got it right. Sure, there’s been some…arguing from people from a specific region of the country, but the field is as it should be. There’s one three-loss team in the field and

The trend of crazy good non-conference scheduling in men’s college basketball is a few years old now, but this year feels even more bananas. Never mind the craziness Feast Week brought — with UCONN bottoming out in Maui, Kansas solving Duke’s defense, surprising losses by Gonzaga and Houston, and Indiana’s struggles — this week is

The implementation of a 12-team college football playoff has generated a lot of conversation and has generally been good for the sport. We’re even getting coaches online pleading the case for their respective teams. Through the last big week of the regular season, there were at least 17 teams that could have played themselves into,