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The sneaky play to make in this mid-major college basketball tournament

If you're looking to bet on the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, Drake is one of a handful of teams that provide the best bets.

Start the college basketball season with this bet

Two of the nation’s top mid-majors, Northern Iowa and Western Kentucky, will meet Wednesday in Sioux Falls, S.D., in the Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic on the opening day of...

The sexier side of corn-crazed Iowa

Didja know Iowa has a Panama, a Toronto, a Rome, a Jamaica — even a Persia? And they say its citizens aren’t worldly. Pfft. Exotic city nomenclature aside, Cornlandia tragically...

Re-living each painful second of NCAA tourney choke job for ages

I wasn’t even watching. Northern Iowa led Texas A&M, 69-57, with 44 seconds remaining and my attention turned to Xavier-Wisconsin, an outcome still to be decided. But every few seconds,...

The 'impossible' NCAA tourney comeback: 44 seconds of chaos

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Northern Iowa appeared all but ready to book its plane tickets to California for next week's Sweet 16. That was before Texas A&M put together the biggest...

East Region: Watch out for Michigan State

This bracket is flooded with match-ups that will whet a basketball lover’s appetite. The first one that jumps out at us is No. 7 Michigan State and No. 2 Virginia...