TMPG Thursday Power Poll by Dean Austin Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow can keep your intrepid columnist from his appointed rounds. However one very nasty looking storm is trying its best this evening as I write this for tomorrow’s publication. I’ve also been giving some serious consideration to the […]

Tuesday Morning Point Guard by Dean Austin It was a fairly relaxed festive season with only a few games of significance of tap. The second week of January looks like it might provide some significant fireworks with all kinds of interesting early conference match ups. Ten College Basketball Thoughts 1. […]

Tuesday Morning Point Guard by Dean Austin Ah the wonders of TiVo. While the creeping crud visited last week and lingered this weekend I was able to queue up a number of important match ups. Took me a while to get through all of it, but finally caught up on […]

TMPG Thursday Power Poll by Dean Austin I got some great feedback this week taking me to task over various items of the Poll. I’m more than happy to receive it, especially from the impassioned Wake Forest fans. I also got some negative comments that attacked me personally. Now you […]

Tuesday Morning Point Guard by Dean Austin Rather more Thursday Morning Point Guard than Tuesday Morning this week. And given my current state it occurs to me that you never see a notice that a columnist is out sick. Peter King, Don Banks, Dick Vitale etc. etc. they occasionally take […]

TMPG Thursday Power Poll by Dean Austin Good Morning. I hope the loss of Illinois to Providence has brought an understanding to the value of the Power Poll. As much as I would like to imply this was some kind of wondrous and more accurate Top 25, it isn’t. The […]

Tuesday Morning Point Guard – December 9th, 2003 by Dean Austin Another crazy week, another No. 1 team bites the dust. All good stuff early this season. Ten College Basketball Thoughts 1. You know if Bobby Knight was dead he would be rolling in his grave after Indiana let a […]

TMPG Thursday Power Poll by Dean Austin Good Morning and welcome to a slight change. After a couple of weeks of Tuesday Morning Point Guard we’ve decided to split out my Power Poll into a separate column. Rather than wait 9 days from the last column, especially given all the […]

Tuesday Morning Point Guard by Dean Austin What superb basketball this past week, especially for so early in the season. My initial sense is that there will be no one great team this year but at least a half a dozen who are all very close. This should make for […]

Tuesday Morning Point Guard – November 25th by Dean Austin Good Morning and welcome to another installment of the Tuesday Morning Point Guard although due to circumstances a little beyond our control this will be more like Tuesday Afternoon Point Guard. Go with the flow; there are more important things […]