Fantasy Hoops: Early Season Surprises by Rick Young Oh, The Agony . . . the early weeks . . . If you’re like me, you’re in week 3 or 4 of your fantasy college basketball season. Unlike me, I hope you’re not pulling your hair (what little I have to […]

A Trifecta of Midwestern Rivalries by Michael Ermitage As December rolls towards Christmas and the non-conference portion of the college basketball season begins to wane, many fans begin to lose a little bit of interest. The initial excitement of the first few games has subsided, and the meaningful part of […]

Touring Around the Northeast by Phil Kasiecki Commonwealth Classic Matches Two Struggling Teams Boston College beat Massachusetts Saturday in a game between two struggling teams. The Eagles improved to 3-2 with the win, but their struggles are well-documented and especially with Uka Agbai lost for the season with a neck […]

Great Expectations for the NYC Point Guards by Bill Thayer It wasn’t supposed to be like this two years ago. By the time the 2002-03 season rolled around, the point guards in the Big East that people were talking about weren’t supposed to be named Knight, Bell and Thomas. It […]

The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 11th, 2002 by Dan Hauptman There is a reason that I have voted this team No. 2 in every Hoopville poll this season. They have a never-say-die attitude and have the talent to overcome a half played so poorly that it would cost most […]

Oregon downs Kansas in the Pape Jam by Jed Tai If only they cheered this hard for the Blazers. Portland’s Rose Garden might normally be home to the black and red of the NBA’s Trail Blazers, but for the Fifth Annual Pape Jam, it was filled with the green and […]

The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 8th, 2002 by Phil Kasiecki On another busy Saturday in the world of college basketball, the headline matchup was that featuring the two winningest programs in the history of college basketball, as No. 19 Kentucky traveled to Chapel Hill to take on No. 13 […]

Live from the Palestra – the Big 5 Classic by Phil Kasiecki On Saturday, the second annual Big 5 Classic brought together the six Division I basketball teams from the City of Brotherly Love. The games were all played at the historic Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania, an appropriate […]

Who’s Your Number 1? by Adam Shandler Presenting The Art and Science of Picking a Top 25 My editor-in-chief, Andrew Flynn, is a good guy who runs a tight ship, and every Monday I get a call from him asking for my Top 25 list, which will be compiled with […]

Hard to Think About Basketball In Chestnut Hill by Phil Kasiecki For Boston College fans, things seem to be going from bad to worse despite an exciting overtime win Wednesday night against St. Bonaventure. The Eagles are 2-2, but the losses include a blowout against St. Joseph’s where the Eagles […]