Blog Posts For Tag: Ncaa

While the Big East certainly proved it was the best conference in the land with five teams making it to the Elite Eight and two teams making it to the Final Four, the conference failed to put a single team in an NCAA Tournament championship. Instead, representatives from two of the most down-trodden major conferences of the year, the Michigan State Spartans from the Big Ten and the North Carolina Tar Heels from the ACC, are taking their place. This match up is a surprise, but it is hardly a big shocker.

Every year in November college basketball seems to begin incognito. Sure ESPN tries to make the first few tourneys- the NIT, the Old Spice Classic, Coaches vs. Cancer – get some coverage, but nobody realizes that collegians are taking the court until December with the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.