Belmont Bruins
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 20: Musician Vince Gill (R) talks with head coach Rick Byrd of the Belmont Bruins after his 71-70 loss against the Duke Blue Devils during the first round of the West Regional as part of the 2008 ...
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First Round Breakdown - West5 months ago
News from around the Net.
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Byrd gets contract extension at Belmont
...men's basketball coaches with 500 or more career victories. He guided the Bruins to a 25-9 record this past season, and the 25 wins set a school record since it entered the NCAA. The Bruins nearly pulled off one of the greatest upsets in NCAA Tournament history...
4 months, 1 week ago
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Belmont locks up Byrd with five-year extension
...Bruins nearly upset Duke in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. The Blue Devils edged Belmont 71-70 after the Bruins blew a late lead. With 541 wins, Byrd is one of 15 active Division I men's basketball coaches with 500 or more career victories. ...
4 months, 1 week ago
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Kiss of death?
...at Belmont, Craig was one of the announcers for the basketball team and fondly remembers playing pick-up games with some of the players and country singer Vince Gill, who, he says, was (and presumably still is) "a big fan of the team." We don't know about...
4 months, 2 weeks ago
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from ClickZ
Permalink/CommentMobile March Madness
...of college basketball or not, you must agree the advent of digital and mobile technology enables a whole new way for fans to experience March Madness. An experience that is a living testament to the connections mobile has the power to create with people --...
4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Berman: Dream job? SU sophomore living it in San Antonio
...with March Madness On Demand on the screen and the "boss button" easily within hand and for the student who cursed Belmont's final five seconds, here's something that will make you jealous. There's a Syracuse sophomore down in San Antonio, spending three weeks...
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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North Carolina is ACC's last hope for Final Four
...against Belmont in the first round. Among the power conferences, the Pacific-10 and Big East each have three teams remaining in the Sweet 16 to two for the Big Ten and Big 12. Only Tennessee, seeded second in the East, remains for the Southeastern. "When...
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Upsets disrupt brackets
...a big hit this weekend when Duke, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Pittsburgh and Connecticut - teams I had going to the Sweet 16 - were knocked out of the tournament early. Georgetown was a particularly hard loss, because I had that team going all the...
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Top Ten | Bracket-busters, flusters and lacklusters
...almosts. Belmont nearly picking off Duke in the first round and UCLA barely getting past a pesky Texas A&M. The first was made that much sweeter when Duke actually did lose in the second round to a 6-foot-8 white guy with funny ears and a 5-foot-8 sixth-man...
4 months, 4 weeks ago
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Stunners and bummers
...Big East Conference, considered by some analysts to be the best league in the land, went 7-1 in the opening round. Impressive. Then Big East teams went 3-4 in the second round. Not so impressive. Although West Virginia, seventh-seeded in the West, and Louisville,...
4 months, 4 weeks ago
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The College Baseball Hall of Fame
What I'm listening to: and the pride of Aledo, Texas... Folks, that's Dan Hunter - he's just released his full-length "Texas" LP...and it's incredible...go to iTunes and make the kid rich! On to Tech stuff...but first a little bit of a story to set up
4 months, 4 weeks ago
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Vols crush Eagles in second half
...Belmont last night had to be encouraging for them. The night before 15th-seeded Belmont almost upset second-seed Duke, but lost on a late lay-up by the Blue Devils. The Vols looked like they were finally going to pull away from the Eagles mid-way through...
4 months, 4 weeks ago
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UCLA Clobbers Delta Devils in NCAA Tournament
...of the Pac 10. Their 9 game winning streak ended in the first NCAA appearance since 1996. They only made 5 baskets in the second half, shooting 20% for the game. It wasn't a fair fight from the beginning. The Bruins had a 12-4 lead in the first 5 minutes....
4 months, 4 weeks ago
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West Virginia Sends Duke Home With Big D
...Final Four _ after a drunken driving arrest, then sat out a season before surfacing at Kansas State in 2007. He took that team to the NIT, losing in the second round. Now he's back home in West Virginia, at the school he played for, and back among basketball's...
4 months, 4 weeks ago
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Win today puts Saints in whole new league
...of the NCAA Tournament. Play your first-round game, cash your check, and safe travels home. But the No. 13 Saints have a game today. And maybe at least one next week. "To get to the Sweet 16, that's a whole another plateau," Siena coach Fran McCaffery said...
5 months ago
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Defeated Duke has also lost its luster
5 months agoI've always thought of going to Final Fours ... and I think that everybody in this locker room has, and we've learned how hard this tournament is, and we can't take anything for granted.
Jon Scheyer
As quoted by Baltimore Sun
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Defeated Duke has also lost its luster
5 months agoWhen you think of Duke, you think of winning, and you always think of Duke winning championships
Demarcus Nelson
As quoted by Baltimore Sun
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Devils ill-fitting parts finally disintegrate
...one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history, and a lot of people felt like Duke lost the game despite scoring more points than the upstart 15th seed. Those same people were saying Saturday they could see the end coming. After the game, that was...
5 months ago
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Duke Gets Pushed Around By West Virginia
...But college basketball figured Duke out. The Blue Devils lost four of nine coming into the tournament and struggled Thursday to beat Belmont in their opener. West Virginia also figured Duke out. Like all of Huggins' teams, the Mountaineers played rough....
5 months ago
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DeCourcy: NCAA fast break: UCLA's, Stanford's great escapes
5 months agoI'm just really pleased we're able to sneak out of here with a win
Ben Howland
As quoted by Sporting News
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West Virginia Sends Duke Home With Big D
...at Cincinnati _ a school he led to the 1992 Final Four _ after a drunken driving arrest, then sat out a season before surfacing at Kansas State in 2007. He took that team to the NIT, losing in the second round. Now he's back home in West Virginia, at the school...
5 months ago
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WVU, Duke coaching heavyweights set for collision
...NCAA tournament began, the odds of West Virginia winning it all were calculated at 125-to-1. The Mountaineers' odds of getting to the Final Four were 22-to-1. They are one step closer now and have embraced Huggins, their feisty, first-year coach. His 25 wins...
5 months ago
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Duke Happy to Be in D.C., Not Durham
5 months agoCan you imagine listening to him for an hour? It would be brutal. It would be awful. That's why he has guests.
Bob Huggins
As quoted by Santa Maria Times
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Duke Happy to Be in D.C., Not Durham
5 months agoIt did sting. You carry that on to this year, thinking about it all the time: 366 days ago, that happened ... That was tough to swallow.
Gerald Henderson
As quoted by Santa Maria Times
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Duke Happy to Be in D.C., Not Durham
5 months agoThe reality is, it's not a democracy. They don't get to vote on it. They don't get much choice. You can do it enthusiastically or you can fight it. And they have not fought it for a second
Bob Huggins
As quoted by Santa Maria Times
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Duke Happy to Be in D.C., Not Durham
5 months agoThis is definitely no 'Good and Evil' or whatever ... I really like him a lot. He's got a coaching background. His dad was a coach. He's just been a basketball guy his whole life. He's done a great job everywhere he's been. He's a survivor.
Mike Krzyzewski
As quoted by Santa Maria Times
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