Category Archives: College Basketball

SNBS – Evan Altman talks Cubs and Ricketts’ tight pockets; Also what’s wrong with Kansas hoops?
January 22, 2020

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NCAA Tournament will be just fine without James Wiseman; it doesn’t need stars – it makes stars
December 20, 2019

Media hot take artists are in a snit over James Wiseman leaving Memphis to prepare for the NBA. The NCAA Tournament needs stars, they say, and James Wiseman is a star. What will the NCAA Tournament be like without him, they gush. Well, It will be like all of the NCAA tournaments that haven’t been blessed by […]

College sports “plantation mentality” and corruption can only be ended by lawmakers
December 19, 2019

The NCAA has a trust problem, according to its president Mark Emmert. He’s right. Emmert is spending a significant amount of time meeting with lawmakers trying to head off a spate of legislation that will correct the course of college athletics because the NCAA can’t, or more accurately won’t. The trust issue exists for two […]

James Wiseman sits after doing nothing wrong while coach who paid is still on sidelines?
November 20, 2019

Soon to be NBA millionaire James Wiseman has been suspended by the NCAA for an additional 11 games as a player at the University of Memphis while he counts the days until his college career ends. Wiseman’s mom accepted a loan of $11,500 from current Memphis coach (he was an AAU and high school coach at the time of […]

James Wiseman proves his name accurate by dropping suit, Memphis rules him ineligible
November 14, 2019

James Wiseman finally came to the correct conclusion that suing the NCAA was not in his best interest (or that of the University of Memphis), so he dropped the lawsuit that allowed him to play last Friday against UIC and against Oregon on Tuesday night. He sued because the NCAA declared him ineligible as the […]

SNBS – Colts Reich stands by Vinatieri; Tell talks switch to CB; NBA load management is bad business
November 13, 2019

Memphis challenge of James Wiseman’s ineligibility could be very costly
November 11, 2019

The NCAA does not like being dragged into court by member universities or their athletes, so in 1975 it enacted the Restitution Rule that may be used to punish schools and programs who parade attorneys into a courtroom to seek relief from a finding that an athlete is ineligible. This is exactly what happened when the NCAA […]

Like it or not, specialization for most high school basketball players is a necessity
November 11, 2019

[None of the below applies to freak athletes who can walk onto a almost any field or court and be the best player on it. They are special and rules most of us need to respect do not apply to them.] Specialization in youth sports is a topic that crops up now and then on […]

SNBS – Hoosiers play team-first basketball; the joy of college hoops returns to Indiana
November 6, 2019

Mitt Romney wants to protect college athletes from being paid what they are worth
October 31, 2019

“What you can’t have is a couple athletes on campus driving around in Ferraris while everybody else is basically having a hard time making ends meet.” That’s republican United States senator Mitt Romney decrying a free market economic model for college athletes. If “rich elitists in our suburbs” was substituted for “a couple of athletes […]