Video: Is VCU ready for another run? - College Basketball Nation Blog. VCU starts with another upset. PORTLAND, Ore. - Bradford Burgess hit a key three-pointer with 1:33 left Thursday night, and Shaka Smart coached No. 12 seed VCU to another tournament surprise, holding off No. 5 seed Wichita State 62-59.
VCU made a stunning run last season from the First Four to the Final Four. The Rams led by as many as 13 in the second half, but the Shockers closed to 54-53 on Garrett Stutz's layup with 5:39 left. Troy Daniels hit a three-pointer for the Rams, and Joe Ragland answered with his own for Wichita State. Toure Murry made a three that gave Wichita State the lead, but Burgess came back with his big shot to give the Rams a 60-59 edge. Darius Theus' runner from about 6 feet provided the final margin. Stutz's long jumper just before the buzzer was off for Wichita State. • No. 1 Syracuse 72, No. 16 N.C. The Orange entered the tournament without starting center Fab Melo, who was declared ineligible for academic reasons, and they almost left early with a piece of history no team wants.
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His team, the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams, shrugged off a twelve-seed in the South region of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament to defeat the heavily favored fifth-seeded Wichita State Shockers, 62-59. It was arguably the most exciting ending of any of Thursday’s sixteen opening round games. With Virginia Commonwealth up by one point, 60-59 with both the ball and 18 seconds on the clock, VCU point guard Darius Theus bolted down from the top of the key and tossed up a rainbow – which hit the back of the iron, banked lightly off the backboard, and landed softly in the bucket. After a timeout, and with under ten seconds remaining, Wichita State’s outstanding 7-foot center Garrett Stutz bobbled the ball, jumped back behind the 3-point line, and tossed up a prayer, which harmlessly clanked off the right side of the rim. Bob Kravitz: VCU press could bring nightmares for Indiana. VCU pep band plays Portland. 2012 NCAA Tournament: Can USF Become This Year's VCU?
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Try preparing for it with less than two days notice. Hinton embracing role as “junkyard dog” for VCU. Indiana Hoosiers v. VCU Rams: can IU make it to the second weekend? (preview) - The Crimson Quarry. VCU ready for another run. Virginia Commonwealth assistant coach Will Wade was in an airport in Wyoming on a recruiting trip after last year's Final Four run.
A woman with the Transportation Security Administration saw his VCU garb and recognized the name. The Rams got the attention of a lot of college basketball fans last season in the NCAA tournament. With a different cast this season, the team that has made a name as the tenacious, pressing, 3-point happy, bracket-busting underdog seems to be at it again. "I'm just glad we're able to play at a national level and show people what we're about," sophomore guard Rob Brandenberg said.
"I know a lot of people thought we were too young this year and it would be a rebuilding year. "I definitely feel like we're a team that not a lot of people want to play. " Fifth-seeded Wichita State bounced by No. 12 VCU - Wire Lifestyle. Set your SafeSearch filter to 'strict.' Now. Welcome back to BracketRacket, your one-stop shopping for all things NCAA on tournament game days.
It's the weekend and if you're stuck at the office, please set your SafeSearch filter to "strict. " Now. North Carolina just picked up the endorsement of porn fans. Why? One word: cheerleaders. A porn website conducted a March Madness survey and found 22 percent of its "basketball fanatics" want the Tar Heels to go all the way. Filling out the Final Four were Duke (15 percent), Michigan State (14 percent), and Baylor (12 percent). Resume normal setting. Indiana basketball: Hoosiers seen as underdog against VCU. VCU's Shaka Smart could have Rams poised for more March Madness. View full sizeSteve Dykes/US PresswireCoach Shaka Smart and VCU will face Indiana tonight for a chance to advance to the Sweet 16 for the second straight season.
Thursday around dinnertime in Portland, Ore., the minute the desperation 3-point heave by Wichita State’s Garrett Stutz fell short, vintage Shaka Smart was unleashed. The diminutive Virginia Commonwealth coach — the darling of last year’s NCAA Tournament — was going berserk on the sidelines, screaming as his Rams ran at him in celebration. Yes, Smart had done it again. No, we shouldn’t be surprised anymore. “He has a great relationship with his players,” noted sports psychologist, Dr. Stark knows a thing or two about what it takes from a coach to get players to believe and buy in enough, yet exude a confidence that keeps a team at ease in pressure situations.
Imagines: VCU's Coach Is Annoyed With All Of You. Shaka Smart has players sign bracket with VCU in Sweet 16. VCU Bracket PORTLAND, Ore. — Before his team's first NCAA tournament game since last year's stunning run from the First Four to the Final Four, VCU coach Shaka Smart wanted to make sure the Rams were mentally ready to make another push. Smart handed each player a laminated copy of VCU's NCAA tournament bracket with the 12th-seeded Rams already meeting their preseason goal of advancing to the Sweet 16.
Then he had each player sign a bigger version on the locker room wall, an exercise meant to help the players visualize their goal and commit to expending maximum effort to achieve it. "When they signed, they're saying, 'I'm all in. I'm going to do everything it takes to accomplish this goal,'" Smart said. Virginia Commonwealth Rams vs. Drexel Dragons - Recap - March 05. Eye On College Basketball - CBSSports.com The band that's as good as as the basketball. They've decided on Director Park, the stone-slab and sterile one-block-wide open area in the middle of Portland's downtown.
They just showed up here, as they're wont to do — and unsuspecting people are thankful for it; just ask those who had their Riverwalk experience enhanced when a boat crammed with 29 instruments plowed through San Antonio in 2011. “You think I'll get arrested?” Ryan Kopacsi asks, and I sort of think he wants to. He's the guy in charge of this thing. And this thing is arguably the best pep band in college sports, VCU's Peppas, which became an entertaining sideshow to the basketball team's 2011 Final Four run. Assembling a drum kit and tuning up tubas in the middle of Portland's public, 52-degree air: not predictable. “Ryan, you're a terrible influence,” one of the band members says. “Yep, I sure am,” Kopacsi quickly responds. Kopacsi, 33, is the “director of athletic bands.” VCU set to raise ‘havoc' against IU in 3rd round. PORTLAND, Ore. – The philosophy is called “Havoc.”
According to Virginia Commonwealth’s media guide, it’s “part aggressiveness, full court offense and defense and part psychological warfare.” An underdog in seeding only. View full sizePORTLAND, OREGON - March 15, 2012 - VCU's Treveon Graham drives to the basket as the the #5 seeded Wichita State Shockers were upset 69-62 by #12 Virginia Commonwealth Rams in the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championships Thursday at the Rose Garden.
Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian Of course, the brotherhood was watching Friday. Following a practice session at the Rose Garden, the Virginia Commonwealth Rams sat in front of their lockers, still in sweat-soaked gear, gazing at various televisions. All of the sets were tuned to No. 15 Norfolk State's historic upset of second-seeded Missouri in Omaha, Neb., and most viewed in silence. All but freshman guard Briante Weber, who, unsurprisingly was unanimously voted by his peers as the loudest on the team. Weber is 6-foot-3 and 160 pounds, tall but slight. "Missouri don't play any D," he said. For once, Weber wasn't just talking. They're brethren, united by slight. Previewing Portland: Saturday's games - College Basketball Nation Blog. NCAA tournament: VCU-Indiana key matchups.
Day After: VCU vs. No. 18 WSU. 2012 NCAA Tournament: Taking a look back at Thursday's action in Round of 64. Jonathan Ferrey/Getty ImagesRemember this guy? Virginia: The home of NCAA tournament upsets. What is it about the Commonwealth, which added another head on its wall Friday when Norfolk State ambushed Missouri in the gotcha moment this tournament had been waiting for? 3 thins to watch vs. VCU - Indiana Hoosiers - CBSSports.com RapidReports. VCU looks for another upset vs. No. 4 seed IU. PORTLAND, Ore. | VCU is all for legacy and tradition. NCAA: VCU proves it still has magic. April 11, 2014. NCAA College Basketball Preview - Virginia Commonwealth Rams at Indiana Hoosiers - Mar 17, 2012. Time: 07:10 P.M. EST PORTLAND, Ore. VCU ready to take on storied Indiana program Saturday. PORTLAND, Ore. —— Basketball fans in town from Virginia now have two teams to pull for on Saturday: Virginia Commonwealth against Indiana and Louisville's opponent, New Mexico. VCU, Colorado Give College Tournament Bracket Its First Shakeups of 2012 Tournament - College Basketball.
The Madness is fully under way. TV RATINGS: VCU Rams win Thursday night TV ratings. RICHMOND, Va. Jon Wilner's NCAA Tournament picks for Saturday's games. Scouting IU's next foe: VCU no stranger to tourney upsets. Indiana Hoosiers Basketball News, Recruiting and Analysis. The New Mexico State Aggies rebounded and got to the line. Indiana negated those strengths and cruised to a 13-point victory Thursday night. The VCU Rams present the Hoosiers with a different challenge Saturday; their “HAVOC” defense — one featuring a full-court press — is turning opponents over on 27.1% of their possessions, which is No. 1 in the nation. #VCU Game & Ram-Love Tweets. 2012 NCAA tournament - Giant Killers - VCU's chances to upset Indiana. Virginia Commonwealth pulls off upset of No. 5 seed Wichita State. NCAA tournament rewind: VCU's upset highlights an unremarkable day. VCU Advances _ Again _ in the Tournament.