Basketball fanatics will spend more than a full day — 36 hours — completely consumed by the sport during March Madness in 2024. Between watching games (13 hours), creating brackets (three hours) and discussing it with family and friends (five hours), a survey of 2,000 basketball fanatics ages 21+ revealed that during the three weeks … Read more
A familiar face will be missing from CBS and Turner Sports’ coverage of the NCAA Tournament this year. Studio host Greg Gumbel will be out for the tournament due to “family health issues,” The Athletic reported on Monday night. Ernie Johnson is expected “to pick up more studio time” in Gumbel’s absence, per the report. … Read more
After a “surge” in backlash, Wendy’s is giving customers a slam-dunk deal. The fast food chain is dishing out deals for March Madness, and basketball fans and burger lovers alike can score a $1 Dave’s Single or $2 Dave’s Double anytime from now through April 10 by checking the offers tab in the Wendy’s app. The … Read more
Haley and Hanna Cavinder are shaking off their March Madness 2023 ouster. In a video posted Tuesday on TikTok, the social media sensations and collegiate athletes — whose Miami Hurricanes lost to the now-champion LSU Tigers in the Elite Eight of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament — can be seen showing off their moves while … Read more
Andrew Marchand and John Ourand look at the storylines that helped the popularity of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and discuss the controversy surrounding Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark. Source link
Underneath it all, Dan Hurley is a fire-breathing dragon. What’s the evidence for this, beyond the 50-year-old UConn head coach’s trademark intensity and sideline dramatics? That would be Hurley’s lucky game-day underwear: red boxers emblazoned with cartoon dragons. “They’re like underoos for adults,” his wife, Andrea Hurley, told The Post of the shorts from MeUndies … Read more
Bill Murray wanted skin in the game. In celebration following UConn’s comfortable victory over Arkansas 88-65 to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time since 2014 when they won the national championship, Murray gestured to head coach Dan Hurley to take off his shirt for the accomplishment, as Arkansas head coach Eric Musselman … Read more
March is bound to get even madder. Scientists at Cornell University have put together a data model that suggests that the application of a physics theory to basketball may lead to teams scoring five to 15 more points per game. Researchers analyzed player metrics and material that were accrued from an undisclosed NBA team through … Read more
Charles Barkley continues to be a riot. Barkley was holding court with Greg Gumbel, Clark Kellogg and Kenny Smith on CBS/Turner’s NCAA Tournament coverage on Friday, and Sir Charles broke into a legendary aside about how he used to wash his own NBA uniform in the shower. The anecdote began with Barkley, 60, throwing a … Read more
When Bill Raftery yells “Onions” in March, it has a double meaning for me. Yes, there’s the ballsy, clutch late-game heroics. But also: Cue the crying. Give me tears from players, spectators, parents, refs … whoever. Apparently, some fans need a refresher in that March Madness tradition. On Thursday, as the clock ran out on … Read more