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Musings from the Hoodwood 3-3…The latest spec sheet
This weeks column is dedicated to the enduring memory of my grandmother Lorene Hare (1925-1993) who was the foundation of Hoodwood before anyone really knew what it was or what it could be… The...
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Musings From The Hoodwood – NCAA Final Spec Sheet Aftermath
The field is set and all 68 slots have been filled and accounted for. Now that the speculation is done, lets look at who got in and who didn’t who shouldn’t and who got the shaft. Teams in bold are...
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Musings from the Hoodwood 3-3…The latest spec sheet
This weeks column is dedicated to the enduring memory of my grandmother Lorene Hare (1925-1993) who was the foundation of Hoodwood before anyone really knew what it was or what it could be… The...
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Musings From The Hoodwood – NCAA Final Spec Sheet Aftermath
The field is set and all 68 slots have been filled and accounted for. Now that the speculation is done, lets look at who got in and who didn’t who shouldn’t and who got the shaft. Teams in bold are...
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Article 2
It’s the grinding time, where more teams are jockeying for the best spots for the tourney, the spec is still light but the margin of error gets slimmer and slimmer and some teams are playing their way...
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Spec Sheet 2-23
More teams are playing their way in and a few are playing their way out. I will be adding projections of the smaller one bid conferences starting with Friday’s update. Atlantic Coast Conference...
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Spec Sheet 2-27
Many teams moved up, some moved out but there is much work still to be done. Selection Sunday is in just 15 days. Ive moved the smaller conference projections back to the 29th to be more thorough....
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Spec Sheet 3-1
Leap day, and we charge into March, more will happen in the next 32 days and when we hit the end of the next four weeks, we’ll winnow the field to four. This crazy period will be the crescendo of the...
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Article 1
The bids are starting to be taken, and there have already been a host of upsets with teams potentially getting locked out with tourney losses. Congrats to Ivy Champ Yale who will be making their first...
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Spec Sheet 3-10
Four more bids were claimed Tuesday and Gonzaga might have played bid stealer by beating St. Mary’s to claim the West Coast title. The smaller conferences aren’t so much the bid stealers but with...
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Spec Sheet 3-11
Updated info on all the tourneys and who will (and won’t) go. Atlantic Coast Conference Class-Power Bona Fide: North Carolina, Notre Dame, Miami, Virginia Solid: Duke Hoping For the Best: Syracuse,...
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Spec Sheet 3-12
Less than 30 hours until the field of 68 is announced and there still is some jostling for seeds and the bid stealers are still lurking about, no fewer than a dozen bids will be locked down today. New...
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The Final Spec
The big day is here, a majority of the automatic invites have been issued with the rest being won today as the SEC, Big 10 and American will issue their invites. This is it, who I think is going among...
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David Bowie starts the final sheet…a classic tune from a great musician. The Spec Sheet honors his memory with the video… The Field is set and brotha, Im mad! The field of 68 has a number of shocks...
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Spec Sheet 3-3
The conference tourneys in the smaller conferences are getting underway and if you blow these games off to focus on the power schools, you are doing yourself a great disservice. The true hoops...
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Spec Sheet 3-6
The tickets are starting to go out. Jacksonville State earned its first ever trip to the dance with a title win in the Ohio Valley Conference. Florida Gulf Coast (the darlings of the 2013 tourney)...
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Spec Sheet 3-7
A couple more bids go out today, with The Horizon, NEC, Summit and West Coast title games on tap. Northern Kentucky is gunning for their first trip to the NCAAs a mere five years after moving up to...
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Spec Sheet 3-8
More dance tickets were stamped out Tuesday night as the Bulldogs of Gonzaga make it 19 straight NCAA tourney appearances with a West Coast Tourney Title. Also going is D1 neophyte Northern Kentucky...
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Spec Sheet 3-9
The intensity of the games gets ratcheted up another notch as many teams are fighting (sometimes literally) for their postseason lives. Hats off to Bucknell who earned their ticket to the dance with...
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Spec Sheet 3-10 Early edition
We’re under 48 hours till the field of 68 is revealed. You thought the upsets weren’t going to happen? Ask Baylor, Kansas, Butler or any other team that though they had easy draws and are now on the...
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