Author: Michael

HOUSTON – By the numbers, midnight in the garden of good and bad seeds nears for Cinderella San Diego State.
Christmas with Connecticut may not be coming Monday night for the No. 5 seed Aztecs (32-6), who never ventured past the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament before this March.

San Diego State Is Not California Dreamin’ Entering National Title Game Against Favored UConn

The UConn Huskies (30-8) are waiting as 7-to-8 point favorites in the NCAA college basketball national championship game Monday (9:20 p.m., CBS). UConn came to this generic Final Four as the best seed at No.

While assisting his team in the blowout, Thompson maintained an unbelievable consistency: all three of his home runs had an exit velocity of 107.5 mph.

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As Iowa and LSU women’s basketball face off in the D-I Women’s Basketball Championship on Sunday afternoon, two programs with different cultures will battle it out for each program’s first national title. The Tigers and the Hawkeyes have a combined eight losses between them, with the former touting just two.
Despite the on-paper records, it is No. 3 seed Iowa that is favored by 2.5 points over LSU. A large part of that number, if not that entire number, is a testament to superstar Caitlin Clark.
Clark is the best player in the country and has the awards to prove it.

LSU’s Kim Mulkey admitted she has “never” seen a player like Iowa’s Caitlin Clark in her career as the Tigers and Hawkeyes prepare to face off for the national championship. 
In a press conference on Saturday, Mulkey was asked to evaluate Iowa star guard Caitlin Clark, specifically if Clark reminds Mulkey of any of the other star players she has seen in her 38-year coaching career. 
“I’ve never seen a player, and I don’t like to use the word never, but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a player that can do what Caitlin does,” Mulkey said.

Kansas State men’s basketball coach Jerome Tang won the 2023 Naismith men’s College Coach of the Year award, it was announced Sunday.
Tang, in his first season with the Wildcats and as a head coach in college basketball, helped lead the Wildcats to the Elite Eight for the fourth time in program history. In their NCAA tournament run, Kansas State beat Montana State, Kentucky and Michigan State before losing to FAU in the Elite Eight. The Wildcats finished the season 26–10.

On Saturday night, San Diego State’s Lamont Butler sent the Aztecs to the national championship game on a buzzer-beater vs. FAU. While the play instantly became the highlight of the men’s tournament, it also almost never happened.
Butler had the ball for the last eight seconds of the game, which included dribbling along the baseline trying to find a way to the hoop. While he was down below the basket, Butler was at risk of stepping out of bounds, but he just barely stayed inbounds by what seems like millimeters.
The result was a moment that will be remembered forever in San Diego.

San Diego State pulled off a last-second win against Florida Atlantic on Saturday night and advanced to the NCAA men’s national championship game thanks to Lamont Butler. The guard made a buzzer-beating jumper as time expired to secure a 72–71 victory for the Aztecs. 
After the game, CBS’s Tracy Wolfson interviewed Butler and coach Brian Dutcher about the game plan going down the stretch. Butler admitted he felt “comfortable” with the shot.

San Diego State and UConn have done this dance once before.
The Huskies beat the Aztecs in the Sweet 16 on their path to a national championship in 2011. More than a decade later, the two programs meet again Monday night, this time with a title on the line.
Their respective journeys through the men’s NCAA Tournament are stark in comparison. No. 5 SDSU’s last two wins were both by just one point, most recently on a buzzer-beater in the Final Four. No.

Oklahoma fans woke up to a great surprise Saturday morning. The only problem was that it wasn’t real.
You see, April 1 is April Fool’s Day, and the Sooners got got.
David Stone Jr., a five-star defensive line recruit from Bradenton Florida, stands 6-foot-4, 270 pounds. He is considered the No. 2 player at his position and one of the top 10/15 recruits overall.
Based on his tape, it’s not hard to see why!

Although Stone does not have to make an official decision until February, he could chose to commit at any time, and is expected to sign in December during the Early Signing Period.