The NCAA Women's Basketball Committee released its second and final March Madness preview on Thursday night, revealing who would get the top 16 seeds if the season ended today.
Why it matters: Landing these seeds is a huge advantage, because unlike in the men's tournament — which is played entirely at neutral sites — the top 16 women's teams host first- and second-round games.
Brad McCarty — head coach of the men's soccer team at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pa. — is one of the winningest and dogmatically philosophical coaches in soccer.
One of the things this Division 3 coach preaches to his players is choosing excellence over success as the end goal.
The NBA returns tonight after its weeklong All-Star break, as a league defined by extreme parity prepares to embark on what could be the most wide-open playoff race in decades.
By the numbers: The Boston Celtics (42-17) are on pace to finish with a league-best 58 wins. If that holds, this would be the first 82-game season since 2000-01 without a 60-win team — and just the second such season in the past 44 years.
