NCAA Day One Buzzer Beaters

March 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

There are few greater gifts that the NCAA tournament gives us that the thrill of a buzzer-beating shot. The first day brought us those in spades with a full quarter of the games won on a last-second bucket. Hopefully the second day is filled with the same excitement, but if not, at least we’ll have these to live in posterity (or until YouTube pulls them down!). Let us know your favorite!

Juan Fernandez of 7th seeded Temple hits an off-balanced shot to beat #10 Penn State.

Why yes, he does have enough jump: #4 Kentucky’s Brandon Knight staves off the super-upset by #13 Princeton.

Demonte Harper of the #13 Morehead State puts the dagger in from outside to knock off one of the Big East’s best in #4 Louisville, which might have been the upset of the day.


Matt Howard of #8 Butler follows up a miss to put them over #9 Old Dominion. Is slipper back on the Cinderella team from last year?

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Football Powerhouses Also Make A Play For Top Party Schools

July 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This week the Princeton Review released its annual rankings of the Top 10 ‘party schools’ in the US, as ranked by a survey of 122,000 co-eds at 371 colleges.  And how surprising is it that there seems to be some overlap when you also consider some of the top ranked college football teams is the nation?  Probably not surprising at all.

We compared the top party school list with the Preseason Top 25 College Football rankings by our parnter, Athlon Sports.  This is what we found.  All four of the top-ranking party schools were also ranked in the preseason Top 25 (top 14, actually) for football, and of the top 10 party schools, six also had ranked football teams.  Call it antoher testament to what we knew all along: football is life.

College Location Party School Rank College FB Preseason Rank
Penn State University State College, PA 1 7
University of Florida Gainesville, FL 2 1
University of Mississippi Oxford, MS 3 10
University of Georgia Athens, GA 4 14
Ohio University Athens, OH 5 -
West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 6 -
University of Texas Austin, TX 7 3
University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 8 -
Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 9 15
University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10 -
University of Colorado Boulder, CO 11 -
University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 12 23
Union College Schenectady, NY 13 -
Indiana University Bloomington, IN 14 -
DePauw University Greencastle, IN 15 -
University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 16 -
Sewanee: The University of the South Sewanee, TN 17 -
University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND 18 -
Tulane University New Orleans, LA 19 -
Arizona State University Arizona State, AZ 20 -

Whether your school is a keggers’ convention, a football powerhouse – or both, you can find tickets to football games and great events in your area at www.ticketcity.com!

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