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.
Denver and North Dakota get to Sioux Falls with similar overall records, but the bracket context is not identical. North Dakota is the No. 3 seed at 16-16 overall and 10-6 in Summit play, while Denver is the No. 6 seed at 15-16 and 8-8, even though Denver finished tied for fourth in the league […]
March 6, 2026
San Diego and Seattle step onto the neutral floor in Las Vegas with very different kinds of momentum. Seattle is the 7 seed at 19-12 overall and 8-10 in WCC play, while San Diego is the 11 seed at 12-20 and 5-13, coming off Thursday’s 66-62 survive-and-advance win over LMU. Seattle got the rest edge, […]
March 6, 2026
San Diego and Seattle step onto the neutral floor in Las Vegas with very different kinds of momentum. Seattle is the 7 seed at 19-12 overall and 8-10 in WCC play, while San Diego is the 11 seed at 12-20 and 5-13, coming off Thursday’s 66-62 survive-and-advance win over LMU. Seattle got the rest edge, […]
March 6, 2026
SE Missouri State and Morehead State arrive in Evansville for an OVC semifinal that looks exactly like March is supposed to look: two top-three league teams, one separated by only a single conference win, both already holding a head-to-head receipt against the other, and neither bringing a fake résumé into the building. SEMO is 20-12 […]
March 6, 2026
Austin Peay enters the ASUN quarterfinal carrying the profile of a true conference contender. The Governors finished the regular season 21-8 overall and 15-3 in league play, sharing the ASUN regular-season title and earning the No. 2 seed with a first-round bye in Jacksonville. Stetson arrives from the opposite end of the bracket. The Hatters […]
March 6, 2026
Daikin Park opens Pool B with a matchup that carries two very different kinds of WBC history. Team USA has been here every Classic and owns the sport’s cleanest American crown—champions in 2017, then back on the title stage in 2023 before Shohei Ohtani and Japan edged them in the final. Mark DeRosa has been […]
March 6, 2026
Malik Willis quietly rebuilt his rookie-hype value during two seasons in Green Bay, producing elite efficiency in limited opportunities behind Jordan Love. Across his appearances with the Packers, Willis completed 70 of 89 passes (78%) for 972 yards and six touchdowns without an interception, adding 261 rushing yards and three scores on the ground. Those […]
March 6, 2026
The Stan Sheriff Center is the kind of building that can turn a conference game into a possession test by the second media timeout. Hawai‘i comes in 21-7 overall and 13-5 in the Big West, still chasing the top of the league, and the home profile has been overwhelming at 15-2. UC Riverside arrives 10-21 […]
March 5, 2026
Sam Houston (21-8) shows up in Newark playing like a team that knows exactly how it wants to win games in March: speed, force, and repeatable shot volume. Delaware (9-20) is walking in with a narrower script—slow it down, let the two-guard offense breathe, and pray the glass doesn’t turn every stop into a second […]
March 5, 2026
Stabler Arena should feel like a bracket building tonight. The Patriot League tournament finally stops being theory and turns into a single-elimination night where one bad ten-minute stretch ends a season. The No. 2 seed Lehigh Mountain Hawks host the No. 10 seed Holy Cross Crusaders at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN+, with Lehigh trying […]
March 5, 2026
Enterprise Center gets a proper one-and-done opener here—No. 8 seed Southern Illinois Salukis vs No. 9 seed Drake Bulldogs, with Belmont waiting in the quarterfinals and no runway for a slow read. Arch Madness opens with a classic Valley tension: a shot-volume team trying to survive its own volatility against a pressure-and-glass team that can […]
March 5, 2026