Huskies Need More Time by Zach Smart STORRS, Conn. – It was quite evident even during their first ten games, when the UConn Huskies ate up a weak schedule in shark-size bites. Jim Calhoun’s youth center, which consists of just three sophomores (two of whom played significant roles last season) […]
Author: Zach Smart
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Zach Smart The beat goes on and on for one of college basketball’s laughing-stock conferences. In fact, one of the primary reason this conference is viewed by skeptics as such a joke is because there are no forces, no perennial powerhouses one can ink in for […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Zach Smart FDU, SHU Early Favorites We’re all familiar with the scenario. One team starts the season of sizzling, establishes itself on the radar with a collection of victories both in and out of conference, before another team emerges out of the blue to take the […]
West Virginia Keeps Winning
Mountaineers Silence Critics by Zach Smart The West Virginia Mountaineers spent the past off-season like most other teams undergoing the rebuilding process. They spent grueling hours in the gym and weight room, figuring out ways a new crop of players and just a few returnees – only one of whom […]
Northeast Preview
Northeast Conference 2006-07 Preview by Zach Smart To the outside world, the Northeast Conference is the laughing-stock conference of college basketball. It’s a safe haven for standout high school players that received few to no Division I offers their senior year. It’s the weakest piece of the puzzle, the compartment […]
UConn’s Near Miss
UConn Avoids Frightening Upset by Zach Smart STORRS, Conn. – Adam Gonzalez embraced a wide smile-sporting Joe DeSantis and a horde of excited teammates. An increasingly irate Jim Calhoun gave his crop of highly-touted freshman an earful on the other side of the hardwood. Gonzalez’s trey from the left corner […]
Kevin Jolley Finds Home Overseas
Former Bobcat Dominates Overseas Hoops by Zach Smart Basketball has navigated Kevin Jolley well beyond his Cheverly, Md. roots. Jolley, a gargantuan wing/post player, has played on some of the toughest courts throughout Washington, D.C. and nearly all of Maryland. The former Quinnipiac forward’s post graduate/collegiate career featured stops in […]
White Plains Summer League
Light Blue Made Sizable Impression, But White Plains Defended Their Home Turf With Pride by Zach Smart Sometimes, you have to be a realist about things. So, let’s face it. The chances of White Plains surrendering their title in the 2006 Ferris Ave. White Plains Summer Basketball League were about […]
NEC Recap
Northeast Conference 2005-06 Season Recap by Zach Smart Farleigh Dickinson (20-12, 14-4): It was a special year for the Knights. The season had nearly all the right ingredients: a regular season conference championship, a conference Player of the Year award, and two players being named to the Division I All-MET […]
Connecticut Young Gunz Emerge
Meriden Native Coaching His Way Through Summer by Zach Smart Perhaps Jason Riccitelli should consider changing his cell phone number. This is because his minutes have been murdered, his messages flooded by a plethora of Division I basketball coaches these past few weeks. Riccitelli, the founder and spearhead of Connecticut […]
