Ncaa basketball 10 rosters 2015
But hey, when life gives you a conference tournament in your home city. UAB Blazers (60): Conference USA left some meat on its plate, bid-wise Old Dominion and Louisiana Tech were both far better than the Blazers this season. North Florida Ospreys (61): More widely known as the team that beat Purdue at Purdue back when Purdue was terrible, the Ospreys also won their last eight games en route to the tournament. But thanks to Lawrence Alexander - who played more minutes than any player in the country and shot 44.5 percent from 3 while he was at it - welcome to NDSU deja vu. North Dakota State Bison (62): After last year's memorable tourney run, the Bison lost three seniors and coach Saul Phillips, and they were not supposed to be back. Robert Morris Colonials (64): Ol' Bobby Morris won't be around for long, but it'll irritate somebody for 40 minutes the Colonials rank 10th in the nation in steals rate (12.7 percent).Ĭoastal Carolina Chanticleers (63): Win or lose, Coastal Carolina coach Cliff Ellis will wake up the next day and remember he gets paid to coach basketball 15 minutes from Myrtle Beach, and suddenly everything will be OK. Lafayette Leopards (65): Not to be confused with the Ragin' Cajuns, the Leopards are a slightly terrifying high double-digit seed for one reason only: They make 41.4 percent of their 3s, second-most in Division I. He went back to Manhattan now he's back in the Dance. only to have the school discover he did not graduate from Kentucky, as his resume stated. Manhattan Jaspers (66): Coach Steve Masiello's next move was supposed to have come last spring, when he was hired by South Florida. Hampton Pirates (67): Hampton may not win a game in this year's tournament, but news of their bid did aggravate every Iowa State fan's long-dormant 2001 trauma, which is a victory unto itself. Texas Southern Tigers (68): Before you poke at the lowly SWAC, or make a glib comment about Mike Davis, it's worth noting the Tigers won at Kansas State and Michigan State this season. ALREADY SHININGįor more than a handful of high seeds, merely being in the NCAA tournament is the worthy culmination of a season-long goal. Here's a first look at every team in the field - from 68 to 1. In their place are thrilling new queries: Who's this year's Cinderella? Which teams are on upset alert? Can anyone knock off an elite, top-heavy group of national title contenders en route to the Final Four? Will Duke defend? Can Virginia's Justin Anderson get right in time?Īnd of course, the granddaddy of them all: Can anyone stop 34-0 Kentucky? In the matter of an hour, all of the tired, tedious questions about college hoops circa 2015 have been wiped away. Whatever the reasons, and whichever side of the line you stand on, we can all agree on one thing: Spending five months proposing technocratic solutions to systemic problems is almost no one's idea of a good time. Arguments that the game is too slow, too deliberate, too over-coached, too stoppage-pocked have felt like a vivid flashback to 2012-13, after which the NCAA created new freedom of motion rules, which were then strangely abandoned last fall. If you're just joining us, the 2014-15 season has been ruled by two things: Kentucky, and the return of widespread concerns about the state of college basketball.