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Butler’s future is bright, but there is work to be done to get there
Jan 15, 2012, 4:05 PM EDT
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INDIANAPOLIS – John Calipari is not normal. That’s not an insult at the man. That’s a compliment. The past two seasons, he’s sent nine players to the NBA Draft, and this year he may have his most talented team since making the jump from Memphis to Lexington. It’s not supposed to work that way. College…
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Cleveland St. lost Norris Cole, but hasn’t lost a step this year
Jan 15, 2012, 1:44 PM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS – The Horizon League has been the preeminent mid-major conference over the past two seasons. With all due respect to the things that the Missouri Valley, the WCC and the CAA have accomplished, they can’t count Butler has a member of their league. All the Bulldogs have done is go to back-to-back national title…
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MILWAUKEE – Far too often, we overlook the blessings in our lives. Whether it’s because the app we downloaded onto our iPad isn’t working or our internet provider doesn’t carry ESPN3 or even something as simple accidentally buying the wrong brand of toothpaste, the little things in life always seem to be the most annoying.…
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(All times ET) Game of the Weekend: Sunday, 4:30 p.m.: No. 8 Indiana at No. 5 Ohio State The last time these two teams played, Indiana knocked off the Buckeyes in Assembly Hall 74-70, giving their fans even more reason to believe they deserved to be ranked somewhere in the top ten. The problem? Indiana probably…
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Friday’s Shootaround: Indiana gets upset, Duke survives and St. Mary’s rolls
Jan 13, 2012, 9:04 AM EDT
Minnesota 77, No. 9 Indiana 74: See here. No. 6 Duke 61, No. 17 Virginia 58: Virginia may have lost this game, but the Cavs proved their mettle to the people that still didn’t believe that Tony Bennett’s team is a real threat, not just in the ACC but on a national scale. UVa doesn’t…
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BLOOMINGTON, IN – Indiana fans are going to want to chalk up the Hoosier’s 77-74 loss to Minnesota, who was previously winless in Big Ten play, to having an off day. They wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. Indiana did have an off day. Coming off of a game at Penn State where they shot 16-24 from…
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Duquesne’s TJ McConnell is underrated, but there’s more to him than just hoops
Jan 12, 2012, 3:20 PM EDT
CINCINNATI – Ron Everhart knows a thing or two about underrated point guards. When he was at Northeastern, he had a 5-10 point guard running his team that was averaging 21.0 ppg and 8.4 apg. But that was Northeastern, which, like Duquesne, is a bit off the beaten path for NBA scouts. Everhart thought he…
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Thursday’s Shootaround: A-10 and CUSA get wild, Mizzou impresses
Jan 12, 2012, 9:30 AM EDT
No. 9 Missouri 76, Iowa State 69: Here’s a hypothetical for you: Missouri gets six points on 1-5 shooting from Marcus Denmon and shoot just 5-21 from three in a game at Iowa State where the Cyclones shoot 12-23 from beyond the arc. Who you got? I certainly wouldn’t pick the Tigers. And I would…
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CINCINNATI, OH – No team in the country has faced more scrutiny over the last month than Xavier has, and its all due to 9.4 seconds that everyone in Cincinnati wishes they could take back. The Crosstown Punchout. While the Bearcats used the fallout from the Brawl Seen ‘Round the World to discover that they…
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Wednesday’s Shootaround: Brandon Paul, Baylor and Seton Hall vs. Louisville
Jan 11, 2012, 9:37 AM EDT
No. 4 Baylor 75, No. 18 Kansas State 73: See here Illinois 79, No. 5 Ohio State 74: See here Providence 90, No. 15 Louisville 59: This was just embarrassing for the Cardinals. There really is no other way to put it. Kadeem Betts and Bryce Cotton both scored 27 points as Providence absolutely steamrolled…
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It’s time to start mentioning Baylor in the same breath as Ohio State, Syracuse, Kentucky and North Carolina. I firmly believe that. And its not just because they left the Octagon of Doom with a 75-73 win over a scrappy Kansas State team on Tuesday night. Just take a look at what this team has…
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NASHVILLE, TN – The last time that Belmont and Lipscomb played at Memorial Coliseum — the home of the Vanderbilt Commodores, a fellow Nashvillian institution of higher learning — they not only packed the house with 16,000 fans, they had to lock out ticket-holders in order to prevent the fire marshall from shutting down the…
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No. 16 UConn 64, West Virginia 57: For the first time all season long, UConn looked like the team that all the pundits thought could be a national title contender. The Huskies were coming off of an atrocious trip through New Jersey, where they lost on the road against both Seton Hall and Rutgers, and…
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Week in Review: Kevin Jones and Seton Hall get love, but the Big East doesn’t
Jan 9, 2012, 4:03 PM EDT
The #BIAHRoadTrip will be cutting into our national coverage a bit, so the Week in Review’s will be limited over the next three weeks. Player of the Week: Kevin Jones, West Virginia All of a sudden, the Mountaineers look like a team that has to be considered a contender in a wide-open Big East. After…
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LEXINGTON, KY – “Terrence Jones is back. Not much to it.” That’s how Anthony Davis summed up the performance that his front court mate had in Kentucky’s 79-64 win over South Carolina on Saturday afternoon, and he had a very valid point. Jones had been a different player for the past month, starting at halftime…
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Rust is showing in Ellington, South Carolina’s two-sport star
Jan 9, 2012, 12:02 AM EDT
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Bruce Ellington was South Carolina’s best player as a freshman. The diminutive but obscenely athletic point guard led the team in minutes played, scoring and assists. He took 110 more field goals than anyone else on the roster and shot 65 more threes. He wasn’t only the guy that had the ball…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn – Belmont’s chances of getting an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament died a long time ago. If it wasn’t when the Bruins came up short in their upset bids at Duke and at Memphis, then it was when they had a stretch of three losses in four games against the likes of…
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Over the course of this week, we will spend a few minutes catching you up on how some of the best conferences in the country currently look. With conference play starting up, its time to get into the basketball spirit. Favorite: Kentucky Well, this is obvious, isn’t it? Kentucky might be the most talented team…
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Apparently, somewhere along the way we got lost and missed the exit for Nashville along I-40. Because based on the Thursday night action in college hoops, we didn’t end up in the Music City, we ended up trapped on the island from LOST. Here’s a quick recap of the wackiness from around the country: No.…
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Thursday’s Shootaround: Georgetown’s comeback tops wild day
Jan 5, 2012, 8:46 AM EDT
Temple 78, No. 3 Duke 73: See here No. 9 Georgetown 73, No. 20 Marquette 70: There are going to be plenty of words written about Georgetown’s dramatic, come-from-behind win over Marquette, as there should be. This was one of the best games I’ve watched all season long (I’m STILL pissed that I decided not…
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I’ve never taken much stock in the top 25 polls. Why? There are too many people with votes that have no clue what they are talking about and far too many decisions are made strictly based the last time a team lost. Ohio State lost by four on the road against a top 15 team…
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Over the course of this week, we will spend a few minutes catching you up on how some of the best conferences in the country currently look. With conference play starting up, its time to get into the basketball spirit. Favorite: North Carolina Is it just me, or does it feel like no one is…
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Wednesday’s Shootaround: Kentucky survives, Missouri rolls, and 10 triples in a game?
Jan 4, 2012, 9:00 AM EDT
Seton Hall 75, No. 8 UConn 63: See here No. 11 Michigan State 63, No. 19 Wisconsin 60: See here No. 2 Kentucky 73, Arkansas-Little Rock 51: Why is this score notable in any way? Because UALR, who is 5-11 and was missing their best player for this game, was up 30-27 at the half.…
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Andre Drummond didn’t know who Herb Pope was prior to No. 8 UConn’s trip to Seton Hall, but the name he most likely learned during the Pirate’s 75-63 win on Tuesday was that of Jordan Theodore. The Pirate point guard was sensational as Seton Hall won their first game against UConn in 3,958 days, finishing…
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The funniest player-coach interaction I’ve ever seen at a sporting even involved a cell phone. It was at a college soccer game back in 2006. I can’t remember what school was playing (they wore green, I know that), but we were in our usual spot, directly behind the opposing bench, getting our heckle on. We…
