Insider Early statement opportunity for VCU
Football, turkey, blah, blah, blah. Here at GK Central, Thanksgiving is a chance to feast on college hoops, as this week might be the best opportuni…
Insider Five upset candidates for 2012-13
Here at GK Central, we have a slightly different way of looking at top teams. We're not concerned with which squads might be Final Four-bound, or wh…
Insider Cinderella candidates for 2012-13
Your eyes aren't deceiving you. It's only October and college basketball hasn't even started. Regardless, we're already writing about potential NCAA…
Insider The trouble for Harvard
Let's clear something up. There seems to be a disconnect over what makes for a good Giant Killer. As colleague Peter Keating and I have explained p…
Insider Murray State: Giant or Giant Killer?
With the first three automatic bids handed out yesterday, we can officially start talking about potential Giant Killers in earnest. And we will. Bu…
Insider Like upsets? Root for these bid stealers.
Here at GK Central, we have a couple of obvious biases when it comes to the conference tournaments. First, we like to see the best potential Giant K…
Insider The CAA's Giant Killers case
Over the years, we've taken to calling the Colonial Athletic Association "The Conference of Killers." And with good reason. Since we started this pr…
Insider What's next for Cornell?
After Thursday's crazy action, we thought we'd get more of the same on Friday. Instead, almost every game went according to form, with the big excepti…
Insider Saturday preview (and a bit of gloating)
We'll admit it, we let out quite a whoop here at GK Central when Murray State's last-second 15-footer gave one of our "Best Bets" a huge win. Mostly, …
Insider Second-round upset potential
You know we're not satisfied calling just one round of Giant Killings, and we know you need to look ahead in your pool. So, while we plan to evaluate …