On the heels of what was a pretty big undressing in the New York Times last week, Bobby Gonzalez has been let go from Seton Hall. Gonzalez's Pirates lost convincingly at home last night in the first round of the NIT, 87-69 to middling Texas Tech. Seton Hall was (shockingly) still in the bubble conversation a week ago today. In last night's game he picked up his seventh technical foul of ... Read More

If UVM wins, it would have the trump card on central New York. Forever. A 16 only beats a 1 for the first time once. Are you brave enough to call it? Have made no attempts to mask my subjectivity to the Vermont Catamounts (what a nickname). A reset: I lived in South Burlington, Vt., from 1991 to 1998. Grew up there. Went to high school there. Failed to kiss many ... Read More

CHJ detailed the Golden Lions' brutal road schedule earlier this season. It didn't play a home game until mid-January. That kind of ambitious and pay-your-dues scheduling was karmic, as Arkansas-Pine Bluff defeated Winthrop, 61-44. Full confession: I watched not three minutes of last night's play-in (never opening round! Never!) game. Confession No. 2: My car died on the highway as I was driving home. It's time to move on from the 1995 ... Read More

You want your NIT fix? We got your NIT fix. And some scary coincidences with one Tournament game this year.

CHJ's final regional preview comes to you in the dinner hour, and it's a full meal of games that the East is offering up. In fact, a buffet's more like it, and you won't want to treat this group of tilts like an à la cart menu (too heavy on the food metaphors? Stopping now). In the past decade no region has had more unpredictability, in terms of which seed ... Read More

Now we're going to talk about Duke and all that's been handed to it and how easy it's going to be for it to saunter to the Final Four. Wait. We're not doing any of that. See, Duke can't "win." Either it reaches the Final Four and everyone rolls their eyes, or it loses before then and Duke gets pummeled for not being able to roll through what's conceived to ... Read More

Heard it called The Man Region yesterday, and that's a great call. I went on the radio last night to talk about these 16 teams, and as I was feebly trying to come off as something barely resembling an analyst, I realized this region is great for us, the viewers. Yeah, it really sucks that Kansas got the toughest region possible, but what a television experience this quadrant is going ... Read More

Today is the day I'll be doling out all the previews for all the regions. I don't want to get you straight-and-narrow analysis and over-exhaustive breakdowns from every game; you can find that in plenty of places, and it's often way, way too much, wouldn't you agree? Doesn't a lot of the stuff so many people slave over just become white noise? So, my own little take on the games, ... Read More

And links to all the firings that happened yesterday. It's a Monday-after-Selection-Sunday tradition.

Below, the NIT field, which features 32 teams. This is the fifth year in which all Division I conference regular-season champions that will not be in the NCAA Tournament are guaranteed an NIT bid (the eight this year include Weber State, Troy, Coastal Carolina, Kent State, Jacksonville, Stony Brook, Quinnipiac and Jackson State). The NIT, founded in 1938, is the nation’s oldest postseason college basketball tournament. Date Time (ET) ... Read More

No, I will not remain calm! The voice of March Madness was kind enough to give me a few minutes this afternoon and come on the CHJ podcast (have I convinced you to finally give this thing a listen?). Episode 7 should be up in the iTunes store by now, but if you'd like to listen to it on your choice of media player, then click here and you can begin. Gus: —Puts ... Read More

I hope you gave your clean bracket a little time to itself before you went out and defaced it. And your picks are defacing, admit it. You know it and I know. That thing is going to look like a delinquent sophomore's English paper by the time the third round is finished. But before all that, what you have before you is a clean slate; a world of possibility. Are you ... Read More

If you'd like to relive all of these great moments, let's do this. There were good and bad — could Kansas have looked more bored? — so let's go with the memorable ones. Wofford took to its school auditorium (cheerleaders dressed in uniform!) to celebrate. Cornell: Thrilled with a 12 while Temple is a little less than that with its terrible under-seeding. Saint Mary's: thrilled with the 10-seed. "Let's go!!!!!" from Richmond. ... Read More

There is so much to ingest as the brackets unfold before your eyes every year in the 6 p.m. hour of Selection Sunday. As my synapses fired off good and bad reactions to the emblazoned logos next to seed numbers on the CBS graphic, one thing became obvious: all the non-major matchups. The catch-22 about pitting two schools against each other in the first round that don't come from one of ... Read More

Yes, it's time to bitch about the seedings. It's an annual rite of passage, and before any of you roll your eyes, the public has just as much of a right to chastise the committee when it does wrong for as frequently as it does right. And it often does right. More times than not. But not this year. Where do I begin? One by one, I'm going to roast the ... Read More

MIDWEST: UNLV (8) vs. Northern Iowa (9). Will Vegas be slowed down by UNI? I'm normally not a huge fan of these smaller conferences going head to head, but I can't turn away from what the committee has given us this year. This is one of three non-BCS matchups I've featured here. If there's one 8/9 game that's destined to screw you, I think it's this one. Early reaction: I ... Read More

Love seeing which teams play at what times. So here you go. THURSDAY AFTERNOON 12:20 PM - Oklahoma City I, Florida vs. BYU, Kevin Harlan/Dan Bonner 12:25 PM - New Orleans I, Notre Dame vs. Old Dominion, Dick Enberg/Jay Bilas 12:30 PM - Providence I, Villanova vs. Robert Morris, Verne Lundquist/Bill Raftery 2:30 PM - San Jose I, Vanderbilt vs. Murray State, Spero Dedes/Bob Wenzel approximately 2:50 PM - Oklahoma City II, Kansas State vs. North ... Read More

For the first time in five seasons, Vermont’s going dancing. For Yahoo, I wrote a piece on Evan Fjeld playing just days after his mother died of cancer. This piece is centered around the team’s accomplishment in 2009-10. The beneficial thing about playing in the America East conference is, if you reach the title game and you’re the higher seed, you play the ultimate conference tilt on your home floor with ... Read More