Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
These Stanford and Cal programs have been going at it (read: loathing each other) for over a century, turning every matchup into a battle for Bay Area bragging rights. No matter the records or the stakes, this rivalry always brings the intensity, where anything can happen, and usually does. While these two NCAAM squads might […]
March 12, 2025
It wasn’t easy, but Kansas State survived yesterday in Round 1 of the Big 12 tournament. They get an even taller task tonight, against a Scott Drew-led Baylor Bears team that sits on the bubble for March Madness. With conference postseason play being the only way Kansas state might go dancing, and Baylor hanging onto […]
March 12, 2025
Super-quick intros because we have a ton of games to get to! SEC Tournament tipping off! Round 1! Longhorns at Vanderbilt—a good ol’ SEC slugfest to get us started today. Let’s get right to it: I’ll run through my preview, prediction, pick, and best bet for this first-round college basketball game between Vanderbilt and Texas […]
March 12, 2025
Hey now—our first trip out to the Mountain West on Conference Championship Week! Something to celebrate, as we’ve covered just about six other conferences before we had the pleasure of hitting the MW. It’s just your straightforward Round 1 matchup here—the Wyoming Cowboys and the San Jose State Spartans face off in the Thomas Mack […]
March 12, 2025
The sunrise game! But for the Big 12 and ACC, no major conference tournament tipped off on Tuesday. Some conferences saw tickets punched; some conferences continued through their brackets. But today we see the SEC, Big 10, Mountain West, and more all begin their brackets, with eyes towards Selection Sunday. It all starts at 11:30am […]
March 11, 2025
I know it’s actually two university basketball programs facing off for a trophy, but doesn’t Montana versus Idaho for the whole Big Sky just sound a little bit more necessarily grand for a small-conference title game? It’s a true tuck-me-in, late-night-sweat of a game for those of us here on the East Coast, and with […]
March 11, 2025
Guess tonight’s Big 12 Tuesday for me—and, I suppose, for us all! I already wrote up the Arizona State at Kansas State Round 1 game with a 7:00pm ET tipoff here, and am now taking you even farther west to Utah for the late-night game. Even after their uninspiring two-game losing streak to close out […]
March 11, 2025
We’re getting a bit more terse with these intros; it’s neither what you want to read, nor anything more than my vocal noise as we lead into some analysis for your betting slips tonight. So let’s just get right into it; it’s Round 1 of the ACC tournament, and I’ve got a preview, prediction, pick, […]
March 11, 2025
Mere hours until the major conference tournaments tip off, and it’s not even noon on a Tuesday. That means it’s firmly, squarely March, and the Madness brackets are piecing themselves together slowly but surely. The full picture should come into frame in due order. And with several first-round games billed for the afternoon, we’re focusing […]
March 11, 2025
What with a damn near exasperatingly-fun weekend of college hoops winding down this Sunday evening, we’ll see several teams punch their tickets to the Big Dance and brace for Selection Sunday. Other conference tournaments, however—especially for some of the major-market tables—don’t tip off until March 10th or later. I decided to create a cheat sheet/one […]
March 10, 2025
I’m not stopping—are you? After an afternoon and evening slate that includes heaters like Missouri vs. Kentucky, Auburn vs. Alabama, and Ole Miss vs. Florida, we’re heading west once more for some late-night hoops action in the Big 12. The red-hot BYU Cougars host the Utah Utes in Provo for the Cougars’ Senior Night celebration, […]
March 8, 2025