All four #1 seeds made the NCAA Division One Men’s Basketball Final Four this year. The last time that happened was in 2008. Malachi Van Tassell, the president of St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, a team that made the […]
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What if the NCAA tournament was based on academics? Congratulations, Clemson Tigers!
Inside Higher Ed does this every year and it’s great. Here is Johanna Alonso: To determine the winners, we used the NCAA’s key academic performance metric, known as the academic progress rate, for the 2022–23 academic year, the most recent data […]
A historic Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod college basketball tournament is coming to an end
Here is Tom Raabe’s piece on the end of the Concordia Invitational Tournament: “Keep C.I.T.! Keep C.I.T.!” That was the chant that rose from the packed gym on the campus of Concordia University Wisconsin last year about this time. The final game […]