Dreams and nightmares for 64 teams
Pat Forde, ESPN.comWhat's the best-case scenario for your team? What's the worst thing that could happen? Pat Forde breaks it down for all 64 teams in the NCAA tournament.
Story | Conversation | March 18, 2009Big Dance: Who takes the crown?
Pat Forde, ESPN.comFrom Selection Sunday to the Coen brothers to the players under pressure, The Minutes -- Big Dance edition! -- runs through it all.
Story | Conversation | March 15, 2009For all the Cinderella dreamers, the tournament starts now
Pat Forde, ESPN.comFrom Cinderella dreamers to the big men who make March go to the bubble-weary, The Minutes runs through it all.
Story | Conversation | March 03, 2009Forde Minutes: Stretch-run story lines, monopolies and underachievers
Pat Forde, ESPN.comFrom the stretch-run story lines to the multi-bid monopoly to the underachievers, The Minutes runs through it all.
Story | Conversation | February 17, 2009Ramblers catch youthful, vulnerable Bulldogs off guard at home
Pat Forde, ESPN.comButler has a gaudy record, but its shocking loss to lowly Loyola on Sunday shows the youthful Bulldogs are still vulnerable.
Story | Conversation | February 15, 2009Inaugural Minutes: Picking a hardwood Cabinet and bailing out the SEC
Pat Forde, ESPN.comOn Inauguration Day, the Minutes makes its 2009 debut by picking out a college hoops cabinet and attempting to bail out the struggling SEC.
Story | Conversation | January 19, 2009Purdue exposes Davidson's one-man show in blowout win
Pat Forde, ESPN.comIt's a not-well-kept secret that Davidson relies almost exclusively on Stephen Curry. A blowout loss leaves it to wonder how it's going to diversify its offense.
Story | Conversation | December 20, 2008Duke sends big-picture message with its Boiler beatdown
Pat Forde, ESPN.comWhat are the possible roadblocks facing prohibitive favorite North Carolina? For starters, the Heels bedeviling neighbor looks every bit the part of a national title contender, writes Pat Forde.
Story | Conversation | December 02, 2008Fear not, hardwood fans, The Minutes is back to usher in a new season
Pat Forde, ESPN.comWhat are the possible roadblocks facing North Carolina? Which Big East team will bite the dust? Which coach is craziest? All those answers in the preseason edition of Forde Minutes.
Story | Conversation | November 10, 2008Power prevails as Elite becomes Four
Pat Forde, ESPN.comChalk has prevailed. The power players will be strutting into the Alamodome for an unprecedented Final Four. It should be a doozy, writes Pat Forde.
Story | Conversation | March 31, 2008Feel-good story of the year ends with KU, Self headed to the Final Four
Pat Forde, ESPN.comThe fitting ending would have been for Davidson's last-second shot to go in, extending the Wildcats' feel-good story for one more week. But it didn't happen, and KU coach Bill Self breathed a sigh of relief as he has reached his first Final Four, writes Pat Forde.
Story | Conversation | March 30, 2008Can Self lead KU to the promised land against America's darlings?
Pat Forde, ESPN.comFour times Bill Self has reached the Elite Eight, and four times his teams have failed to reach the Final Four. Kansas' game against Davidson, America's darlings, is the ultimate must-win, no-win contest, writes Pat Forde.
Story | Conversation | March 29, 2008Even LeBron has to salute the brilliance of Curry, Davidson
Pat Forde, ESPN.comWisconsin was supposed to be the big, beefy stopper of Davidson's Cinderella run. But the Wildcats -- in front of the ultimate Witness, LeBron James -- ran the Badgers out of the gym as Stephen Curry firmly amazed yet again, writes Pat Forde.
Story | Conversation | March 28, 2008Life is beautiful with Davidson's generosity
Pat Forde, ESPN.comAfter Davidson's Cinderella run reached the Sweet 16, the board of trustees of the small liberal arts college did something unique and wholly refreshing -- it put the students first, writes Pat Forde.
Story | Conversation | March 27, 2008Manufactured in Detroit, CDR's unique game is made for the big stage
Pat Forde, ESPN.comChris Douglas-Roberts' unorthodox game was honed in his hometown of Detroit. It's certainly old-school and has worked wonders for Memphis, writes Pat Forde.
Story | Conversation | March 27, 2008TOP SEARCHES IN NOVEMBER
Bowl Projections tops ESPN.com searches in November. Did "stephen curry" make the list?