Sports Field Guide » NCAA basketball

I used to rail vs clichés like “Cinderella” and “bubble teams.” Those words, though, have been used so pervasively in discussions about the NCAA Basketball Tournament that they are now ...

https://sportsfieldguide.org/2019/03/13/some-march-madness-cliches-are-more-wretched-than-others/

So how did the country cover No. 16-seeded UMBC’s implausible, crazy victory over No. 1 Virginia? Here’s a sampling of the stories that addressed what might be the biggest upset in the NCAA b...

https://sportsfieldguide.org/2018/03/17/umbcs-historic-win-in-ncaa-tourney-generates-some-terrific-stories-and-another-upset/

You can grill students all you want on interviewing techniques, keeping score, taking notes and writing game stories, but they won’t really learn until you throw them into live event coverage. ...

https://sportsfieldguide.org/2018/03/06/theres-no-better-way-to-teach-sportswriting-than-to-bring-students-to-cover-live-events/

The Arizona Daily Wildcat offered the most comprehensive coverage among schools whose teams played in the opening round of the NCAA basketball tournament on Thursday.  The Wildcat posted a game...

https://sportsfieldguide.org/2015/03/20/college-sports-writers-offer-solid-coverage-of-ncaa-tourney/