Let’s try this again. In this space 12 of the 16 playoff participants were accurately predicted and five of those teams were correctly seeded. However, the Orlando Magic were picked here to finish dead last in the Eastern Conference but ended up qualifying for the post-season as the 7th seed. … Read more
College basketball’s 2019 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) final game pitting the Texas Longhorns against the Lipscomb University Bisons was played on April 4th at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. I watched a portion of the second half on television and although the game wasn’t a blowout, Texas was in … Read more
Most of us who consider ourselves basketball fans have seen young players with talent and basketball smarts well beyond their years and wondered what the future might hold for those players. As we get older and gain a better understanding of the near-impossible odds of earning a spot an NBA … Read more
It’s March Madness time. Basketball junkies, casual observers and others will be tuning in, filling out brackets and entering contests and office pools. But just getting to this point is the difficult part. The term March Madness is reserved for the Division 1 NCAA Tournament, but the real basketball madness … Read more
The language of the NBA continues to reflect the league’s image-consciousness as well as its sense of humor. Every season there are a number of teams for which winning is obviously not a priority, in hopes of of “earning” a high pick in that summer’s NBA Draft. Not sure what … Read more
Those of us who are fans of the Peanuts gang certainly remember growing up watching the Halloween program entitled, It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, where a pathetic Linus character waits in what he believes to be a chosen pumpkin patch for a fictional Great Pumpkin to rise and shower … Read more
When we all reach for our 2019 NCAA Division 1 College Basketball Tournament brackets after the March 17 pairings are announced, we will notice several recognizable programs among the missing. More than a couple of the so-called power conferences are having down years, largely because some annual tournament fixtures within … Read more
NCAA Division 1 College Basketball. Brought to you by the 346 participating institutions of higher learning and the 32 conferences they compete in. All the academic sharpness you can handle can be found on some of those sprawling campuses. But if you are a true follower of college hoops, you … Read more
We are approximately six months removed (and six months away) from what has become an annual ritual in sports debates: the micro-analysis of Lebron James’ most recent post-season performance coupled with the back and forth over who is the Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T) between he and Michael Jordan. And … Read more
A few decades ago, the word “microwave” mentioned in a basketball context was usually in reference to Brooklyn’s Vinnie Johnson, the muscular guard who could come off the bench cold and heat up in a hurry with a flurry of buckets, mostly as a member of the Detroit Pistons. With … Read more
