The Morning Dish – Friday, October 23rd Montgomery Apologizes: Stanford coach Mike Montgomery apologized to Florida head coach Billy Donovan for making a statement that implied that Montgomery believed Donovan cheated at recruiting. In a Washington Post interview last week, Montgomery obliquely referred to a cheating coach that had gone […]
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Hidden Gems
Hidden Gems – The Best Players You’ve Never Heard Of by Phil Kasiecki Now that we’ve revealed the Hoopville pre-season All-Americans, it’s only fitting that we look at some of the best players no one knows about. Every season, there are players who start to emerge seemingly out of nowhere, […]
Big 12 Offseason News Update
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Mitch Schneider Where to begin? It’s been an interesting off-season, to say the least, for the Big 12. From the troubles at Baylor and Iowa State to the new faces at Kansas and K-State, the Big 12 has experienced more plot twists than “The OC.” […]
Colonial Offseason News Update
Colonial Offseason News Update by Matt Amis Delaware No news is good news for the Hens, who are looking at the addition-by-subtraction approach, and returning four starters from last year’s squad. Picked to finish fourth in the conference by CAA coaches, Delaware will reunite the up tempo backcourt of Mike […]
Big Sky Offseason News Update
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Eastern Washington The Eagles added assistant coach Carl Howell to their staff in mid April. Howell coached at Tacoma Community College for the last eleven years, where he compiled a record of 239-83. Idaho State It isn’t necessarily offseason news, but Midnight Madness for […]
A-10 Offseason News Update
Atlantic-10 Offseason News Update by Jonathan Scherner West Dayton In April, head coach Oliver Purnell left Dayton after nine years as coach to take over as coach of the Clemson Tigers. Dayton acted quickly and four days later reached an agreement with Brian Gregory to take over as coach of […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, October 23rd Two More Jump: In what’s becoming a weekly occurrence, two teams have jumped from the Sun Belt Conference to the recently-beleaguered WAC. New Mexico State and Utah State have announced that they will leave the Sun Belt in time for the 2005-06 season. […]
Outside Shooter Book Review
Philip Raisor’s Outside Shooter Review by Adam Shandler Not everyone can say they were on the winning side of the most enchanting games in basketball history. And for that matter, not many can say they were on the losing side of those games either. But Phil Raisor can, and those […]
Big East Offseason Update
Big East Offseason News Update by Stephen Murphy Is the Champagne still bubbly? How can you top the ending to 2002? Congratulations to Jim Boeheim for having the perseverance to overcome those Championship Game woes. What a finish in New Orleans! Syracuse wasn’t too ‘Smart’ to let Keith get off […]
West Coast Offseason Update
West Coast Conference Offseason News Update by Andria Wenzel The WCC preseason poll has Gonzaga University as the leading vote getter to win the conference, followed by Saint Mary’s, Pepperdine, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Clara, Portland and Loyola Marymount. The coaches also voted on the conference’s top returning players […]
