We’ve got a unique Final Four – and not just because it’s the first one since the field expanded in 1985 without a No. 1 seed.
Houston will host two of the big boys and a pair of mid-majors. Here’s our first glance at this most unexpected Final Four field:
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011
The Dirty Secrets of the NCAA
by Jason Whitlock
Let me clarify my position on Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun and his alleged illegal recruiting tactics by discussing Kentucky’s flirtation with Memphis’ John Calipari.
If a sports media outlet reported today that Calipari and his Memphis assistants had NCAA-impermissible contact with a recruit from an at-risk situation and a manager-turned-agent, no one in the sports world would express an ounce of surprise.
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NCAA: If John Calipari was “dirty,” would Kentucky care? Should anyone? The real mud is all over the NCAA. Wrong number: So UConn gets some heat for a few phone calls. The NCAA’s smooth operators are the real problem. Women’s lib: If women’s hoops is going to succeed, it must liberate itself from the men’s tourney (for starters).
Coach Cal’s rep is that he plays loosey-goosey with the NCAA rulebook. He recruits prep-school kids, late-academic qualifiers and he’s not above…
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Let me clarify my position on Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun and his alleged illegal recruiting tactics by discussing Kentucky’s flirtation with Memphis’ John Calipari.
If a sports media outlet reported today that Calipari and his Memphis assistants had NCAA-impermissible contact with a recruit from an at-risk situation and a manager-turned-agent, no one in the sports world would express an ounce of surprise.
Latest from Whitlock
NCAA: If John Calipari was “dirty,” would Kentucky care? Should anyone? The real mud is all over the NCAA. Wrong number: So UConn gets some heat for a few phone calls. The NCAA’s smooth operators are the real problem. Women’s lib: If women’s hoops is going to succeed, it must liberate itself from the men’s tourney (for starters).
Coach Cal’s rep is that he plays loosey-goosey with the NCAA rulebook. He recruits prep-school kids, late-academic qualifiers and he’s not above…
Read More
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