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The 2012 NCAA Bracket is out!

Published by Source on March 12th, 2012

Congrats to all 68 teams that were fortunate enough to have their name called tonight! Six teams from the B1G received spots in the field, as well as local Big East teams Marquette and Notre Dame. Below, you will find a breakdown of who is playing who, where they are playing, and what day the game is on.

UPDATE: Times/broadcasts have been added at the end of each game description.

Michigan State – The Spartans got the 4th 1-seed in this year’s field after beating the Ohio State Buckeyes in this afternoon’s conference title game. Tom Izzo leads his Michigan State squad into the NCAA Tournament for the 15th straight season and this is the 4th time that they have been a 1-seed in that span. This year, the Spartans sit atop the West Region and will face NEC Champion LIU-Brookyln in the first round (Columbis, OH). A first round win will result in a match-up with either Memphis or Saint Louis over the weekend. [9:20pm/8:20cst on TBS]

Ohio State – Despite losing in the conference title game, the Buckeyes were given a 2-seed in this year’s East Regional (Syracuse is the 1). They will face off with 15-seed MAAC winner Loyola (MD) in the first round and would face either 7-seed Gonzaga or 10-seed West Virginia after that. Those games will be played in Pittsburgh. This is the 6th NCAA berth in head coach Thad Matta’s 8 seasons in Columbus and the 3rd time the Buckeyes have been a 2-seed in that time. They were also a top seed twice, including last season. [9:50/8:50p on TNT]

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Big East Writers Preseason Poll Results

Published by Source on October 18th, 2011

The Big East writers have spoken and their preseason conference poll results are here. 16 writers, each from a different part of Big East country, cast their votes on how the teams will finish this year, as well as selecting the conference’s top players and newcomers.

CLICK “MORE…” TO VIEW THE RESULTS!

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New Fighting Irish commit: VJ Beachem (2013)

Published by Source on October 17th, 2011

VJ Beachem (New Haven, Indiana) became the first member of Mike Brey’s 2013 recruiting class when he made the call for Notre Dame a couple weeks ago. The 4-star prospect is ranked #72 overall by Rivals, and the #13 small forward in the class. Beachem had additional offers from Purdue, Iowa, Minnesota and Butler, but was being recruited be a number of other basketball powers, most notably Indiana, Michigan and Michigan State.

Beachem is a long and athletic wing who averaged 19 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists as a sophomore last season. His previous school, Fort Wayne Harding, closed down after last year and Beachem is now in his first year at New Haven.

Once merely a perimeter threat, Beachem has added several new dimensions to his game. He had a fantastic summer playing for the Eric Gordon All-Stars AAU squad, alongside two future Hoosiers (Collin Hartman and Devin Davis), one Boilermaker (Basil Smotherman) and one Wolverine (Zak Irvin). In July, Beachem told Jeff Rabjohns of Rivals.com that he was often hearing it from his teammates to join them at the next level.

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Zach Auguste Commits to Notre Dame

Published by Source on September 23rd, 2011

Just a few weeks ago, 2012 PF Zach Auguste had cut his list of schools down to four and Notre Dame was one of the schools that did NOT make the list. That didn’t stop Mike Brey and staff from continuing to pursue Auguste (New Hampton, NH), who recently moved up to #93 in the Rivals150. Apparently, that perseverance did not go unnoticed as Auguste committed to the Fighting Irish earlier today.

Auguste set up official visits for his final four schools (Marquette, Florida, West Virginia, and Georgia Tech), but only made it to Marquette last weekend before making the commitment. He scheduled an official visit to South Bend and arrived on campus on Wednesday. Obviously, the visit left quite an impression on the prep school senior.

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Gary Harris and Indiana’s scholarship situation

Published by Source on September 2nd, 2011

By: Kyle Dunne, Indiana contributor

Gary Harris is one of the few highly ranked, unsigned recruits remaining from the state of Indiana for the class of 2012. By numerous accounts, the 6’6’’ shooting guard’s top three schools consist of Indiana, Purdue and Michigan State. With many of his friends already committed to play for the Hoosiers, as well as Bloomington’s close proximity to his hometown of Fishers, it may be very hard for Harris to turn down the opportunity to play for Tom Crean. However, because of the already clouded scholarship situation, a Harris commitment to Indiana could make things complicated in Bloomington.

Assuming Matt Roth does not use his 5th year of eligibility at Indiana, two additional current Indiana players or committed players through the class of 2012 would need to vacate their scholarships for the 2012-2013 season. This could be accomplished through transfers, early entries into the NBA draft, a player offering to give up their scholarship and pay for their school or a player in the 2012 class reclassifying.

If Harris does commit to Indiana, only five of the Hoosiers’ 2012 recruiting class would be able to sign their letters of intent in November. While it is not my intention to speculate on which current players will or will not be with the team at this point next year, it is intriguing to look at the different scenarios. (more…)

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Gary Harris sets visit dates

Published by Source on September 1st, 2011

Gary Harris has set the dates for his three official visits. The first visit, which was announced prior to today, will be to Purdue the weekend of October 1st. The Boilermakers host Notre Dame in football on Saturday night.

Today, according to Scout.com’s Brian Snow, Gary announced that he will visit Indiana on Saturday October 15th and Michigan State on Saturday November 5th. The Hoosiers will be on the road facing Wisconsin in football during Harris’ visit, while the football Spartans will be hosting Minnesota on the 5th.

As a football player, Harris will be making official visits on Saturday rather than Friday so as not to conflict with his own games. Per NCAA rules, he will be able to stay until Monday as part of the official visit.

Indiana usually hosts their Hoosier Hysteria event on the Friday of that weekend (October 14th this year) but have not yet announced this year’s date. It is probably fair to speculate the event will be moved back to Saturday this year.

Indiana, Purdue and Michigan State have all received 3+ commitments in the class of 2012 already, so I assume we will see some or all of those committed players joining Harris for the official visits.

Gary’s father, Gary Sr., told Rivals.com that although these are the only three visits set right now, they are not ruling out using the other two official visits allowed to high school seniors by the NCAA. Louisville and Notre Dame have long been in the discussion with Harris, but the father said that a new school, Stanford, has recently entered the picture.

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