The Flexible Freshmen by Dan Hauptman They used to not be able to play on the team. Up until 1972, freshmen were not allowed to play varsity basketball. The highest level they could play college basketball was junior varsity. That is not the case today, and nowhere is that trend […]
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Mid-Majors Keeping up with the Big Boys
A Perfect Example of the Changing State of D-I Hoops by Adam Shandler The Hoopville holiday party was a blast! Actually, since we’re all scattered all over the country, it had to be a virtual holiday party, but we had fun nonetheless. Managing Editor Andrew Flynn rented out only the […]
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Notebook “What’s wrong with Marshall?” That was the buzz around the Mid-American Conference, as the Thundering Herd stumbled out of the gate with an 0-3 record. Since then, however, Marshall has won three straight and has been able to answer the questions about its team with a resounding “We’re […]
Horizon League Notebook
Horizon Notebook Getting no respect is part and parcel of being a mid-major program. But Butler sometimes appears as if they’re being absolutely ignored. Despite rolling to a 7-0 record, including wins against Washington, Indiana State and Purdue, Butler hasn’t even received a sniff of the Top 25. In the […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook How big is too big? With continual growth through its six years of expansion, Conference USA now stands at 14 teams, and as a result each team won’t play three other league members this season. This little factoid is brought to your attention because a potential contest […]
Next in Line?
Next in Line? by Lon Samuelson When one thinks of New York City point guards, thoughts of Mark Jackson, Kenny Anderson, and Stephon Marbury are just a few that come to mind. But Smoosh? Just north of Manhattan at the Rose Hill Gymnasium on the Fordham campus is where one […]
West Coast Preview
2001-02 West Coast Conference Preview by Don Weinstein The West Coast Conference has Long been known as the conference of tournament sweetheart teams. Who can forget the 1990 Loyola Marymount team sans Hank Gathers, the various Pepperdine teams and the recent Gonzaga crews zigzagging deep into the tournament? Some perceptions […]
Best Backcourts in the Country
Best in the Nation? I think not . . . by Bill Thayer All summer, we were bombarded with propaganda from other sites and preseason magazines. I finally lost it. I couldn’t deal with reading one more story about how good Chris Duhon had become. I didn’t want to hear […]
On This December 7th
Thoughts on this December 7th by Andrew Flynn Today marks the 60th anniversary of the “date that will live in infamy” – the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Sadly, while the date has lost some of the stature of other days of remembrance in recent years (this year’s most notable […]
Atlantic Coast Preview
2001-02 ACC Conference Preview by Bill Thayer I’m watching too much television recently, this ticker thing is starting to bug me … Williams back, Devils team to beat … Terrapins return to prominance, can they knock off Duke? … New Skip in Wake … Doom and gloom in Chapel Hill […]
