Time is ticking on the NCAA Men’s Hoops season – conference tournaments are set to begin in the next two weeks, leading to Selection Sunday, March 16th, and the Sweet Sixteen determined a week later. Enough time has passed where teams have shown their strengths, weaknesses, tendencies, and what they avoid. Statistics can reveal trends otherwise overlooked. There are those … [Read more...] about NCAA Hoops: Crunching the Numbers
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Beilein’s Basketball Odyssey
By Paul Gotham It should have come as no surprise to see John Beilein in a basketball gymnasium Friday night. Beilein after all has been coaching hoops now for over thirty years. It’s just that the gym was Henninger High in Syracuse, New York, and Beilein now presides over the basketball program at the University of Michigan some 450 miles away in Ann Arbor. Beilein … [Read more...] about Beilein’s Basketball Odyssey
Rating the Point Guards
With March just a couple of weeks away time to start sorting out who are the best teams on the college hoops landscape. One indicator of team play is point guard play. Here's my top five point guards in the country. DJ Augustin Texas - Sophomore - 19.3ppg 5.8apg 2.7tpg 1.3spg Does what his team needs him to do. During the recent upset of Kansas Augustin only scored ten, … [Read more...] about Rating the Point Guards
NCAA Hoops is Living Up To Its Maddening Reputation
February is living up to its reputation here in the northeast. Single digit temperatures combined with forty mile per hour gusts have denizens shivering. Mix today’s weather conditions with Saturday’s air in the forty degree range, and my yard has become a sheet of glass - anyone for a little back yard hockey? Also living up to its reputation is college hoops. With March … [Read more...] about NCAA Hoops is Living Up To Its Maddening Reputation
Respect For The Opponent
By Paul Casey Gotham Watch enough sports and eventually one will develop a distaste for some of the guys who wear the sweater of an opponent. Whether it’s the guy you hate see coming to the plate with the winning run on base or the player who fills up the net all too frequently when playing your team, these guys can make our sports viewing down-right … [Read more...] about Respect For The Opponent