Illinois entered the Final Four with the best offense in college basketball. It wasn’t enough Saturday to overcome UConn’s disciplined defense and inside-out attack. UConn disrupted Illinois’ normally efficient offense and mounted its own balanced attack to win 71-62 in Saturday’s first national semifinal. When Illinois threatened to rally from a 13-point second-half deficit, it…
Duke’s March Madness run ended Sunday in the Elite Eight, and what an ending it was. The Blue Devils blew a 15-point halftime lead, fumbled the ball in the final seconds and watched UConn’s Braylon Mullins oust them from the NCAA tournament. It was a painful loss, but it has company in Duke’s oeuvre of…
Continuing his own March Madness tradition, former President Barack Obama unveiled his NCAA Tournament brackets on Wednesday. Obama, who has been doing this since his presidency in 2012, has Arizona winning the men’s tournament and UConn leading the women’s tournament. Both sections are quite chalky, as is often the case with Obama. Advertisement It has…
Well, what odds do you give me that the Roundhill Sports Betting and iGaming ETF (BETZ) gains 15% from its Wednesday close of $18.20 before losing 15%? On the surface, that’s what my ROAR score is intended to do: balance the potential for returns and the risk of significant losses. And for this basket of…
