COVID-19 sucks, and the negative tentacles reach into most of our lives. Powerful people enjoy the opportunity to try to right those wrongs where they can. Such is the case with the NCAA Division One Council who approved a measure that allows all winter athletes to retain their year of eligibility this season whether games […]
There’s bad luck – and then there is what is going to happen to the college basketball programs committed to playing in the 2020 Battle for Atlantis. This promised to be a dream trip for coaches, players, and their families. There are few places on Earth more enjoyable during late November than Atlantis Paradise Island in the […]
The NCAA’s enforcement staff is not the adversary of college basketball powers. It exists to protect coaches, programs, and schools from the greed that destroys fairness. But don’t tell that to the University of Louisville. As with the University of North Carolina, which cleverly dodged massive penalties in response to academic fraud charges, Louisville is answering […]
The tweet below from Jon Rothstein caused me to get the kind of angry I used to enjoy indulging in. Back in the day, I loved screaming about idiots who publicly showcased their lack of understanding about life, culture, sports, politics, and all topics in between. A few years ago, I paused my penchant for fury. Today, I’m […]
When the report of Indiana Basketball hiring former UConn assistant Kenya Hunter was tweeted, there was great rejoicing among IU fans. Some media types were shocked that Hunter would make the move from UConn. “How did Archie Miller pull this off?” they asked. Here’s how. Indiana’s athletic department has more money than UConn can begin to […]
The final minute of a basketball game is where high drama should build to a crescendo as tall men and women exhaust themselves in the fight to win. Instead, because of timeouts and replay reviews, the final minute can turn into a death march taking as many as 15 minutes. I was reminded of this last […]
Gambling happens. If there is a game, someone has money riding on the outcome. Russian ping pong during the early parts of the pandemic taught us that. Still, Heather Lyke, the athletic director at Pitt, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that she and every other AD in the ACC would like gambling on […]
So a kid named Jonathan Kuminga is going to forego his opportunity to play as a freshman at Duke or Kentucky to earn cash in the G-League, which means people are going to declare college basketball a dying game. Kuminga is the #4 ranked player in the 2020 high school class after reclassing from 2021, joining […]
Not sure how it happens, but some college basketball coaches seem to believe they know as much about societal issues as they do about basketball. And they like to share that self-conferred wisdom. Iona’s Rick Pitino falls into that large pile of self-immersed bloviates. Yesterday, Pitino put on his epidemiologist cap and tweeted: Suggestion to the […]
College basketball is going to be fine, regardless of some excellent players opting to bounce straight to professional basketball. No one has ever graduated from Fort Wayne Mad Ants University or Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario College, and so few people outside Fort Wayne and Ontario have ever heard of these G League franchises. Every year, […]