Tag: NCAA

Villanova defeats UNC 74-77 on buzzer beater to win Nat’l Title

Brandon King

Well I can admit it, I was wrong. If you read my earlier piece from today, you know I predicted that North Carolina would win tonight’s national championship game against Villanova. I said the Tar Heels’ size and their defense would be more than the Wildcats would be able to handle. How off I was! Carolina was on target from behind the three point line in the first half, shooting a scorching 78% from downtown. This hot shooting helped them take a five point lead 39-34 lead into intermission. In…

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Anticlimactic Final Four culminates in UNC/Nova title clash

Brandon King

So here we are, just a few short hours away from the culmination of the college basketball season. The Final Four has come and went and ,considering some of the games we’d witnessed earlier in the tournament, the contests themselves were underwhelming. In the first game, Villanova served Oklahoma a record setting 45-point beatdown, 95-51. Naismith Player of the Year, Buddy Hield was dogged by the wildcat defense into a 9 point outing. The nightcap saw North Carolina defeat Syracuse, 83-66. The Orangemen tried their darnedest at times to make…

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Day 2 of NCAA Tournament ends with a bang

Brandon King

The round of 64 wrapped up tonight and it did not disappoint. Upsets were the order of the day, the biggest of which was 15 seeded Middle Tennessee State upending 2nd seeded Michigan State, 90-81. Others included in the East, 14 seed Stephen F. Austin bouncing 3 seed West Virginia 70-56; in the South, 13 seed Hawaii ended California’s tournament,77-66. In the West bracket, 11 seed Northern Iowa defeated Texas , 75-72 on a half court heave at the end of regulation by Paul Jesperson that will no doubt go…

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Oregon Bball brings in the new college season with exclusive kicks

Brandon King

The college basketball season has just kicked off and like their football counterpart, the Oregon basketball team is coming to play in exclusive gear. In their game earlier this week against Baylor, the Ducks took the court in team exclusive KD 8’s. The yellow upper serves as a backdrop for the pine tree graphics that adorn the floor of the basketball court. The same yellow is also used on the KD logo on the tongue. Kelly Green is the hue of the flywire, swoosh and tongue. Consider these another reason…

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UNC Air Jordan XX9 PE’s for the Sweet 16

Brandon King

One of the perks of playing baskets at the University of North Carolina are the shoes you get to play in. It helps when Micheal Jordan is an alumni of your school. In the latest edition of a UNC PE that people will drool over are these Air Jordan XX9 PE’s that the Heels will break out in their Sweet 16 game against Wisconsin on Thursday. The shoe’s upper is largely university blue and rather than the large Jumpman that is on some retail colorways, the Rameses logo that UNC…

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