Meade Gets His Chance And Runs With It by Phil Kasiecki All Jave Meade ever needed was a chance. A chance to play the game, a chance to play his natural position, a chance to go to a good college. Meade recently played his final home game at Holy Cross. […]
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Life on the Bubble
Life on the Bubble by Jim Woods Most fans of college basketball, like myself, consider March to be the best time of the year. How can you not? Conference tournaments are getting under way and other leagues are winding down the regular season. ESPN likes to refer to this time […]
Splitting Adams at the Oscars
Splitting Adams by Adam Shandler Adam’s meandering mind weighs on in the college hoops home stretch…and beyond. The Undefeateds Stanford and St. Joe’s have rolled into March with unblemished marks. But the glass-is-half empty crowd is poo-pooing the efforts. Sure, the Pac 10 and A-10 aren’t as stacked this year, […]
Tuesday Morning Point Guard
Tuesday Morning Point Guard by Dean Austin One of the amusing things about writing a column is the lack of immediacy even in this instant gratification internet world. It still takes time to post and Sunday is the best day to write it. I can react to Akron knocking off […]
Touring the Northeast
Touring Around the Northeast by Phil Kasiecki Eagles Come Out Slow, Finish Strong Boston College didn’t exactly carry the momentum from last Sunday’s second half against Rutgers into the first half of Wednesday’s game against Virginia Tech. The Eagles committed 12 turnovers, which the Hokies turned into 15 points, and […]
Rhode Island’s Upset Bid
Special Game, Special Season by Phil Kasiecki KINGSTON, R.I. — The stage was set. 7,616 screaming fans in the sold-out Ryan Center, on Senior Day at Rhode Island, with undefeated St. Joseph’s in town. The doors opened earlier than usual for the fans, an hour and a half before the […]
BCS’s Cousin
Profiling Purdue – No Love for the Boilermakers by Michael Ermitage Here we go again. Man’s dependence on computers is seeping into the college basketball world. It has taken the ugly form of the RPI, first cousin to the BCS bowl formula. For too many people scared to think for […]
A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale: The Time is Now by Jesse Ullmann The All-American guard Luis Flores is a senior and Bobby Gonzalez may be leaving the Bronx for a not-too-shabby opportunity over there in Queens. Fan support and television coverage in Riverdale are peaking so if there has EVER been a […]
Managing March
Managing March by Jim Woods If you are still logging onto Hoopville to check out my columns, obviously you fall into one of these categories: 1) Parent, 2) Close Friend, 3) Wife or 4) Die Hard Basketball Fan. So to you all I say thank you. For the past two […]
Nassau’s Finest
Just Another Day in Nassau by Keith Irizarry So, I had a long workweek of waking up at 4am to get to work by 5am and then sleepwalk my way through a long day of reporting, but who’s complaining? Saturday arrives and I have a day off. Should I sit […]
