Author: Hoopville Staff

Early NCAA Reflections

Reflections on the early madness by Ray Floriani HILLSDALE, NJ – Ran into an officiating friend on Saturday en route to the Hiilsdale Hoop ‘Mad Marchness’ youth tournament in this quaint Northern New Jersey town. Mad Marchness, have to love that , but the tournament was well organized with nice […]

Big Ten Notebook

Big Ten Conference Notebook by John Sahly It’s less than one week until Selection Sunday, and a weird Sunday in college basketball came to an end with a few top teams losing, none more noticeable than No. 1 Illinois. Illini finally lose After a remarkable run, the nation’s No. 1 […]

Big Ten Notebook

Big Ten Conference Notebook by John Sahly This week in the Big 10 provided fans with one of the more newsworthy weeks in recent memory. There were some great games, off the court trouble and still a few unanswered questions going into this week. Illini keep on rolling It’s a […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Friday, January 28th Arizona Takes Command of Pac Ten: In Tucson, No. 11 Arizona overcame a ten-point first-half deficit and rode a 38-of-40 team effort from the foul line to capture round one of its first place showdown with No. 10 Washington 91-82. Channing Frye scored […]

Ohio Valley Notebook

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook by Nathan Clinkenbeard Bulldogs Showing Bark Early No one believed in the Samford Bulldogs at the beginning of the season, evident by the Ohio Valley coaches and sports information directors picking them to finish 10th in a conference of 11 teams. However, six games into the […]

Big Ten Notebook

Big Ten Conference Notebook by John Sahly Conference play is under way in the Big 10. The nation’s No. 1 team, Illinois, is already looking to establish dominance among the contenders, with Michigan, No. 12 Michigan State and Wisconsin all looking to make moves this week. Badgers pass first test […]

Atlantic Sun Notebook

Atlantic Sun Conference Notebook by Darren Lowry Two Schools Join A-Sun With the conference set to lose four schools in the next two years, there was no secret that the A-Sun was going to have to replace them sooner rather than later. On Jan. 5, the A-Sun announced that Kennesaw […]