2012 NCAA Tournament Weekend Key Points with NBADraftBlog.com’s Ed Isaacson

 By Mark Kern ( ) A look at the weekend’s key points and players What  individual matchup or two are you most looking forward to in the Sweet 16 games? Cody Zeller and Anthony Davis. It is amazing for a guy who blocks shots like he does to stay out of foul trouble.  The reason [...]

BoxofMESS Bracketpalooza: 2012 NCAA Tournament Brackets

By Erin Ashley (Twitter) Boxofmess.com presents to you our very first 2012 NCAA Tournament Bracketpalooza. We will be showing you a bracket by one of our a boxofmess.com writers, Mark Kern (), and brackets by Ed Isaacson , NBA Draft Analyst/Owner/Writer NBADraftBlog.com & member of USBWA, and Raphielle Johnson , Assistant Editor for Collegehoops.net and [...]

2012 NCAA Tournament Preview with Sporting News Michael DeCourcy

  By Mike Kern (Twitter)   It’s that time again, the NCAA tournament is finally here. In about eight hours, you are ripping up your brackets, the teams you thought had no chance to pull the upset actually could. I talked with Sporting News Mike DeCourcy  about some of the key things to look for [...]

Vermont Catamounts defeat the Lamar Cardinals, 71-59

By Erin Simon (twitter)   Pat Knight and his Lamar Cardinals lost to the Vermont Catamounts 71-59 on Wednesday night in the first-round of the NCAA tournament. Even when the Cardinals shot 50% beyond the three-point line, Lamar struggled with converting their field goals, shooting 34%. This low-percentage prevented the Cardinals from moving past the [...]

2012 NCAA Midwest Bracket Breakdown

By: Mark Kern (Twitter) Midwest BEST FIRST ROUND MATCHUP Creighton vs. Alabama In the eight/nine game, you have Creighton vs. Alabama. This matchup puts two teams together that play completely different styles of basketball. Creighton averages 80 points per game, and is led by All-American Candidate Doug McDermott, who averages 23.2 points and 8.2 rebounds [...]

NCAA Conference Tournaments: Do They Truly Matter Anymore?

By: Paul Ratliff Arguably the greatest basketball game to ever be played occurred in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1974.  It pitted the North Carolina State Wolfpack and the Terrapins of Maryland for the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship in the times when only one team from each conference would advance to the NCAA tournament. The [...]

Louisville Faces First Road Test at Kentucky

By: Logan Swenson On the final day of 2011, undefeated #4 Louisville (12-0) will travel 72 miles east to face rival #3 Kentucky (11-1) at Rupp Arena. This will be the first ever matchup between the inter-state rivals pitting both teams in the top five. Louisville has traveled away from the KFC Yum! Center just [...]

Freshman Karl Going to “Town” at St. Joseph

  By: Erin Ashley METUCHEN- When it came the time for highly scouted 6’10″ Forward Karl Towns Jr. to select where he would attend high school, his selection, Saint Joseph High School, a private Catholic all-boys college preparatory school in Metuchen, New Jersey, became the biggest news in the “Garden State”. Flash forward a couple [...]

Troy Williams: True Essence of Mental Toughness

Like they say with any sport– Winning is 90% Mental and 10% Physical. This may be true, but not everyone is capable of overcoming obstacles and challenges using their mental toughness alone. If you cannot over come the battle within yourself, then more than likely you will not be able to withstand the pressure on [...]

Danny Green: The Pathway of Greatness

This work by boxofmess.com/ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at boxofmess.com/. Attribution No Derivatives This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to boxofmess.com When you look at it, college is such a great place [...]

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