Butler Tries to Reload by Jay Pearlman INDIANAPOLIS – Four of five starters are gone, as well as five of the six Butler players logging 500 minutes, 144 out of 170 starts, two first team all-conference players (including Player of the Year Mike Green), 69 percent of points gone, along […]
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Colonial Preview
Colonial Athletic Association 2008-09 Preview by Jay Pearlman CAA fans tighten your belts: with all due respect to Michael Litos’ Cinderella 2005-06, you just may be in for the ride of your lives! When we last convened in this space, we looked back at a balanced, competitive, but slightly down […]
The Delicate Role On The Air
Milton Bradley Shows All Analysts How Delicate that Role Is by Jay Pearlman Those of you who read this space know that I follow the Colonial Athletic Association from a courtside seat at Northeastern’s games, as Bill Coen’s radio analyst. I often acknowledge – including to Bill – that I […]
Officiating A Hot Topic
Thirty-Three Months not nearly Enough for Donaghy by Jay Pearlman Perhaps because of the speed and athleticism of the players, perhaps because of how difficult it is statistically to stop an opponent from scoring, perhaps because it is a game that allows contact but not collision, an awfully tough distinction, […]
Florida Atlantic Closing In On Jarvis
Florida Atlantic Should Close the Jarvis Deal by Jay Pearlman I was visiting a friend in West Palm ten or so years ago, and with a few minutes to kill in Boca Raton stopped to look at the gym at Florida Atlantic University (ok, so I’m a bit of a […]
The Role Of Money In College Sports
On O.J. Mayo, College Athletics and Money by Jay Pearlman First and foremost, in case there is any doubt, this is a column, not an investigative piece or even a news article. Second, if you’re still reading, you deserve to know a tiny bit about the writer whose opinion you’re […]
Colonial Recap
Colonial Athletic Association 2007-08 Season Recap by Jay Pearlman Only in comparison to the previous two, this was a bit of a down year in the CAA; in fairness, after Mason’s Final Four run and VCU’s defeat of Duke, how could it not be? Plus, with precious few exceptions (North […]
Davidson’s Run Ends In Elite Eight
Clock Strikes 12:00 on Cinderella Davidson by Jay Pearlman DETROIT – It was the best game of the weekend, forty riveting minutes of basketball, the only game in which the lower seed had a chance. And even with Stephen Curry showing his humanity in the second half (more from the […]
Detroit Regional Notes
Curry Too Good for Wisconsin; Kansas Next by Jay Pearlman DETROIT – In life as in basketball, certain time periods are about learning, about catching up, about intense focus on a singular subject; yes, about tunnel vision. Three years ago when this writer rejoined the sports media, my focus was […]
Tough Season-Ending Loss For Old Dominion
Singletary Gives Virginia Comeback Win Over ODU in CBI by Jay Pearlman In last week’s article about Old Dominion’s CBI win over Rider, we noted that while nominally more for seniors (Virginia’s Craig Littlepage called UVA’s participation in the tournament a “reward”), this tournament is really more of an opportunity […]
