Point of View: The real upset

Josephine Rozzelle, Sports Editor

March 22, 2018

Despite the $900 million March Madness income for the NCAA, the $1.5 million revenue CBS and Turner Broadcasting receives for each ad it sells during the tournament, and the $1.67 million each participating team is guaranteed no matter their success, college athletes — whose participation is the reason f...

Madness strikes

Josephine Rozzelle, Sports Editor

March 22, 2018

March Madness spread to Convent, with teachers airplaying big games, students spending lunches making sure their bracket stayed intact, and a school-wide ESPN bracket group. Junior Megan Mullins created an online group for students and teachers to enter their NCAA March Madness brackets, following las...

Point of View: One and not done

Josephine Rozzelle, Sports Editor

December 15, 2017

To some serious basketball players hoping to become professionals in the NBA, college is a checkbox — a one-year nuisance to pass the time before they become eligible for the draft. This phenomenon is created by the “one and done” rule, as it is appropriately called, which states that all playe...

Good Call: Even the fan field

April 5, 2012

Claire Fahy Sports Editor The team’s center aggressively secures the rebound, creates space, recollects and surges toward the rim for a powerful one-handed dunk over intimidated and cowering opponents. Momentum-changing power plays are an integral part of the annual March Madness collegiate b...