College Basketball Commentary
Top 10 Players in the SEC: Look for Them in the NBA Next Season
The SEC is supposedly a football conference. But while the SEC has been dominant in football for as long as most of us can recall, the SEC is also a great basketball conference too. There are many great NBA players who came from the SEC such as Al Horford, David Lee, Joakim Noah, Chandler Parsons, […]
College Basketball’s Most Overrated Coaches
I know there will be a lot of angry fans over this article, but it occurs to me that there are a few coaches in college basketball that get a lot of praise heaped upon them who may not deserve it. Not that these coaches are not great coaches, but maybe not as great as […]
Will Kentucky’s Coach Calipari Need to Shift Gears in Recruiting?
The John Calipari method of recruiting since he has been the coach of the Kentucky Wildcats has been pretty simple. He goes to rivals.com or scout.com or whatever recruiting website he likes and looks at the rankings. Then he starts at the top and works his way down at each position and gets the top […]
March Madness Begins: Projecting the Tournament’s Top Seeds
The calendar flipped to march over the weekend. That is music to the ears of college basketball fans. The regular season will wind down this week which means “bubble watching” will be our greatest obsession and Joe Lunardi will be America’s biggest unknown celebrity, if there is such a thing. What does Lunardi do the […]
Why Miami Hurricanes Will Make an Early Exit from NCAA Tournament
The Miami Hurricanes are having their best season ever. They are about to win the ACC regular season crown with a record of 23-5 and 14-2 in the ACC. They hold a two game lead over the Duke Blue Devils and gave them all they could handle in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday. So why […]
Can the Lakers Still Make the Playoffs? Absolutely
The Los Angeles Lakers are going to make the playoffs. The San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder may as well get used to it. It is a done deal. But wait, the Lakers are still under .500. They went out and laid an egg against the Denver Nuggets when they finally had a chance […]
NCAA Tournament: Is it Time to Expand to 128 Teams?
128 teams in the NCAA Tournament? Blasphemy! That’s what you’re thinking isn’t it? But let’s look at some numbers here. There are roughly 350 Division I college basketball teams. 128 teams in the tournament is well under half of the teams. Compare that to the NBA and NHL where over half the teams get in, […]
College Basketball’s Most Disappointing Teams in 2012-13 Season
Thinking back to the beginning of the season, there are several teams that just have not lived up to the preseason hype. Let’s take a look at some of the worst offenders: North Carolina State Wolfpack- The Wolfpack is 19-7 and 8-5 in the ACC with wins over Duke, UConn and North Carolina. But the […]