Jacksonville State played a quarterfinal game against North Texas in the College Basketball Invitational Wednesday night, but it could be easily forgiven if the Gamecocks’ minds were on other things this week. JSU’s campus in Alabama was hit hard by an EF-3 tornado Monday night, leaving widespread damage throughout. Among […]
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Scanning the Nation: Notes from the opening weekend
The first three days of the college basketball season have been largely uneventful, not surprising when schedules are littered with endless guarantee games and schools seemingly have little interest in even playing at all so early in November. Here are some quick-hit notes looking around the country after the first weekend of regular season hoops:
Scoring a Division I problem, not a college hoops problem
If one takes a wide view of college basketball as a whole and examines the numbers, there is only one conclusion to come to: scoring isn’t a college basketball problem. It’s a Division I college basketball problem.