Here’s Jim’s final field ahead of the 2019 Selection Show…
Read moreIvy Tournament Preview 2019
The fight for the Top 4 was a battle in itself, but now the Ivy’s top contenders descend on New Haven hoping to knock off the host Yale Bulldogs…
Read moreBig West Tournament Preview 2019
The Irvine Anteaters are a clear favorite out in Anaheim, but individual talents like CSUN’s Lamine Diane and Fullerton’s Khalil Ahmad/Kyle Allman duo, among others, offer difficult challenges…
Read moreAmerican Tournament Preview 2019
Cincy’s two-year run atop the AAC leaderboard has come to a close after being overthrown by Kelvin Sampson and the Cougars. Can Houston stay hot in Memphis and complete the season sweep of both the AAC regular season title and AAC championship crown?
Read moreWAC Tournament Preview 2019
The WACky WAC has three bona fide conference title contenders in New Mexico State, Grand Canyon, and Utah Valley, The Aggies are hunting for their 7th Tourney appearance in 8 years while GCU and UVU are looking for their first bids EVER.
Read moreBig Ten Tournament Preview 2019
You won’t find a more competitive conference tournament than the B1G championship, which features some heavyweights with some serious punch at the top, along with some feisty challengers lurking in the middle to lower seed range.
Read moreBig 12 Tournament Preview 2019
So long sir streak - Texas Tech and K-State finally wrestled away the Big-12 title belt from Kansas, but the Jayhawks get another crack at reasserting their place as the league’s alpha-dog in nearby Kansas City this weekend.
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Kentucky and Tennessee have 1-seed aspirations, but it was LSU that captured the regular season conference crown. Can the Bayou Bengals win the conference tourney sans Will Wade? Or will a team like Auburn send them packing early?
Read moreBig East Tournament Preview 2019
In a league with a clear top two and an 8-team morass below them, it seems like a Villanova/Marquette collision course at Madison Square Garden - or it did until recently. Can any of the bubbly teams get hot and play spoiler?
Read moreConference USA Tournament Preview 2019
The Monarchs were anointed kings of the C-USA in the regular season, but ODU will have to maneuver through a deep 12-team field to lock up the automatic bid in Frisco this weekend.
Read moreSouthland Tournament Preview 2019
The Southland Tourney will be won by a team not named Stephen F. Austin for just the 2nd time in six years. Sam Houston State and Abilene Christian are the heavy favorites, but SE Louisiana and Lamar have the talent to pull the upset.
Read morePac 12 Tournament Preview 2019
I have very few nice things to say about the Pac 12, but how about this: I hope that Washington State wins the tournament so that Robert Franks can play in the Big Dance (and Ernie Kent gets a monster extension)! Really though, this sucker is wide open
Read moreMountain West Tournament Preview 2019
Nevada looks to reassert its dominance and prove it is the clear #1 team in the MWC, but pesky Utah State doesn’t appear to be going anywhere. Can Fresno join the MWC Big Dance party with a surprise run to the title? Will SDSU finally live up to preseason expectations? Can UNLV protect its home floor?
Read moreBig Sky Tournament Preview 2019
Jordan Davis elevated Northern Colorado to new heights this year, but a catastrophic letdown on the last day of the regular season helped Montana take home a second straight Big Sky regular season crown. The Bears now seek redemption when they head to Boise, along with a deep field of worthy challengers.
Read moreAtlantic 10 Tournament Preview 2019
Injury repercussions - both good (VCU) and bad (St. Joseph’s and George Mason) - have had a giant influence on the A-10 this year. With everything reset in a “win or go home” scenario, who will emerge victorious in Brooklyn?
Read moreSun Belt Tournament Preview 2019
Four teams outpaced the rest of the league during the regular season but only one can advance to the Big Dance. Can senior PG Tookie Brown take his Georgia Southern Eagles to the Promised Land since 1992, or will D’Marcus Simonds and Georgia State clinch Ron Hunter’s 3rd auto-bid of his career?
Read moreACC Tournament Preview 2019
Duke got all the headlines but Virginia is the team to beat in the ACC Tournament. Will Zion’s return vault Duke to the #1 overall seed? Will UVA avenge its embarrassing loss to UMBC? Will good ole Roy Williams capture yet another ACC title and make the Heels a surprise 1-seed? All will be revealed in arguably the greatest conference tourney in the country.
Read moreSWAC Tournament Preview 2019
It’s been three seasons since someone other than Texas Southern claimed the SWAC’s auto-bid, but is this the year Prairie View A&M or another thirsty challenger finally restores order?
Read moreMAC Tournament Preview 2019
The MAC was one of the best mid-major conferences throughout the season and features a locked in at-large team in Nate Oats’ Buffalo Bulls. Can title contenders Toledo and Bowling Green crash the Dance and make the MAC a 2-bid league?
Read moreMEAC Tournament Preview 2019
The plucky upstarts from the MEAC once again descend on the Scope Center in Norfolk for MEAC Madness. They aren’t quite home games for Norfolk State, but it’s going to be tough to unseat the favorite so close to the Spartans’ campus…
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