The NCAA Women’s Championship picks Cinderella: Watch out for the Princeton Brackets

After months of speculation, the class of 2023 NCAA Tournament is now complete. But before you start filling them with reckless abandon, hoping to outsmart your co-workers in the office suite or outsmart your friends for bragging rights and free drinks, keep in mind that bracket busters are common. Every year, at least one team breaks chalk. Looking at women’s college basketball arc, I highlighted one prospect from each region with surprising potential as well as four dark horse teams that could make it to the Final Four. This season,…

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NCAA Tournament Bracket Watch: Alabama is the top seed. Northwestern and Clemson

“They can’t imagine it… that someone like me would walk into their house, walk on their land…” – Cassian Andor When compiling this week’s segment, we were astounded by the inclusion of teams we’d never expected to have considered as recently as a few weeks ago. North-west? Pittsburgh? Clemson? UCF? wait … Is that true? It also got us thinking about another story focusing on underdogs who took the power structure by surprise: “Andor,” our favorite TV series of 2022. After the train wreck that was “The Book of Boba…

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Hunter Dickinson of Michigan More join the campaign calling for greater revenue sharing with athletes

Ten current college athletes have signed on to a public campaign calling for a more equitable allocation of athletic department revenue. Athletes are asking for a share of the revenue their teams earn—divided equally among all athletes on the team—as well as an expansion of the scholarships to six years, protecting existing freedoms from participation by Congress and the Ivy Athletes Scholarship Foundation. Here’s what you need to know. The effort is being led by the National College Players Association, which has supported public campaigns in the past such as…

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