NASHVILLE -- CBS slotted Florida State and Cincinnati as the late game Sunday night, with tip-off coming at nearly 10 p.m. Eastern. Being cast in a time slot where the game would finish when many in America had gone to bed was a subtle way for network executives to acknowledge the obvious -- this game would not be pretty. And the instincts of the...
NASHVILLE -- St. Bonaventure last won an N.C.A.A. tournament game in 1970, and even that victory came with a caveat. Bob Lanier injured his knee, keeping him from playing in the Final Four and costing the Bonnies a possible shot at John Wooden's mighty U.C.L.A. Bruins. Since that victory, the Bonnies have lost in double overtime to Kentucky,...
NASHVILLE -- Andrew Nicholson came to St. Bonaventure from Canada thanks to a cellphone he accidentally smashed with his size 18 sneakers, a sprained ankle that prevented bigger programs from recruiting him and the lure of a glistening new science building. If that confluence of events appears improbable, consider the results that Nicholson...