Posts By: James Folsom

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has made comments suggesting he may draft Baylor Bears star Brittney Griner in this year’s draft. Is this a publicity stunt? Or do the Mavericks really think  she can play with the men? I must admit, I have wondered how she would have done on Baylor’s men’s team. My guess […]

The hot topic centered around the final days of the NBA regular season oddly enough is not whether the Los Angeles Lakers are going to make the playoffs. The hot topic is whether or not stars should be playing in their team’s final regular season games as opposed to resting for the playoffs. Some are […]

For most schools, getting to the Elite Eight would be a pretty cool thing. But most schools are not the University of Florida. The Florida Gators have been to the Final Four four times since 1994, three national title games in that span and won two national championships. So getting to the Elite Eight is […]

The moral of the story after all is said and done, you want to be the overall number one seed on Selection Sunday. The Louisville Cardinals were that team this year and they were the only number one seed to make the Final Four. They were joined by two number fours and a number nine […]

Players in the past have really helped their draft status by having a great NCAA Tournament. One that comes quickly to mind for me is Joakim Noah in 2006. He was a relative unknown going into that NCAA Tournament. By the team he had led the Florida Gators to a national championship, set the record […]

By no everyone has sen the disturbing footage of Rutgers head basketball coach Mike Rice firing basketballs at his players, kicking his players, shoving his players, and launching homosexual slurs at his players. Rice was suspended in December for three games and fined $50,000. At the time, nobody had seen the footage of what went […]

It is hard to believe, but no coach has won NCAA Tournament championships at more than one school. One would think in 75 years it would have been done by now. Several coaches have been to Final Fours with more than one school. Roy Williams immediately comes to mind as he took the Kansas Jayhawks […]

Typically, when a team comes from out of nowhere and makes a nice run in the NCAA Tournament, that team’s coach becomes a hot commodity. While nobody can blame a coach from a small school striking while the iron is hot, one would have to wonder if this is a smart idea for the new […]

The big question in the Chicago Bulls season has been whether or not superstar point guard Derrick Rose will come back from his injured knee suffered in last season’s playoffs. He has been rumored to be close ever since the All-Star break back in February. Yet here we are with a only a handful of […]

As a college basketball fan, the Elite Eight is perhaps the most difficult round. Of the six (and in some cases now seven) rounds of the NCAA Tournament, the worst to lose in is the Elite Eight round. Why is that? It is because there is so much emphasis on getting to the Final Four […]