Imagine graduating from college at age 22, and after a series of promising job interviews you receive a bunch of rejection letters from prospective employers citing a “lack of upside” as the reason. This is the plight of the NBA prospect with the audacity to use all four years of … Read more
About 20 years ago, after periodically experimenting with hosting the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball’s Final Four in cavernous sites like Houston’s Astrodome and the Louisiana Superdome (as it was called at the time) with seating capacities in excess of 60,000, the association finally decided that forevermore, the top level … Read more
College Basketball tournaments–at all levels–arrive at the best possible time for some hoops fans. It’s March, so the annual NBA Eclipse — at least a partial one, anyway — has arrived. This is the part where the drama of single game elimination conference and national college basketball tournaments relegates the … Read more
Today we salute the NBA longshots. These are the guys who have defied the odds to earn spots on NBA rosters. They probably weren’t heavily recruited coming out of high school, and many of them certainly weren’t pursued by the traditional college basketball powerhouses. But somehow, they excelled at their … Read more
Now that we’re about a week into the 2017-18 College Basketball season, we’ll begin to focus on some of the lesser-known programs in Division 1 and scouring for upsets courtesy of schools from the smaller conferences and divisions. The first few days of the season did not disappoint, with several … Read more
The homework was done. The chores weren’t, but for the teen-aged sports junkie in the pre-cable television era, priorities tended to come in second to the possibility of finding a live sporting event on a slow night. As I began my search for the rare live sporting event, I had … Read more
NCAA college basketball teams began practicing in preparation for the upcoming 2017-18 season on September 29th, which makes this the right time for another trivia quiz designed to test your college basketball acumen, this one with an emphasis on the 2016-17 Division 1 season. We always try to give the … Read more
We know all about the college basketball powerhouses like Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, etc., the NCAA Division 1 schools we’ve been watching on television and hearing about for years, along with the dozens of NBA players who once wore those school’s colors, but there are hundreds of other schools in … Read more
So far we’ve taken the basketball commentary back to the 1970’s and kept one eye on current events, so it’s only fair that we take a peek into the future for professional and college hoops, featuring an arbitrarily selected year of 2040 – 23 years ahead. Considering how much the … Read more
At the end of the 2016-17 NCAA College Basketball season, there were 351 member schools (translation: about 200 too many) with Division 1 classification. Beginning with the 2018-19 season, two more schools will be joining: California Baptist University and the University of North Alabama. With so many schools within one … Read more
