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Patrick Beilein, son of Michigan coach, takes job at West Virginia Wesleyan
May 23, 2012, 1:28 PM EDT
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Patrick Beilein, the son of Michigan basketball coach John Beilein, has been hired by West Virginia Wesleyan College to become the school’s next head basketball coach. “I have always wanted to be a head coach at the collegiate level and I thank President Balch and Athletic Director Randy Tenney for this opportunity,” Beilein said in…
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Recruiting rundown: Montrezl Harrell seems Bluegrass bound
May 23, 2012, 12:45 PM EDT
After spending a year in one of the most loaded prep school programs in the country at Hargrave Military Academy (Va.) it’s reasonable to assume that 6-7 forward Montrezl Harrell is ready to step in and be an impact freshman next season. Outside of Mississippi-based wing forward Devonta Pollard, Harrell is the only top-100 prospect…
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Mississippi State transfer Rodney Hood down to Duke and Ohio State?
May 23, 2012, 12:01 PM EDT
With the retirement of Mississippi State head coach Rick Stansbury, so was spurred the transfer of freshman Rodney Hood who, now, could be the hottest talent on the transfer market. But, according to a report from Florida State’s Rivals.com site and added to by Bob Baptist of the Columbus Post-Dispatch, Hood is down to two…
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2014 guard Wade Baldwin of SportsU/Immaculata talks recruiting, continues to pick up college offers
May 23, 2012, 10:23 AM EDT
HAMPTON, Va.—After playing two games on Saturday at the Southern Hoop Group Jam Fest, 2014 Immaculata (N.J.) guard Wade Baldwin returned to his hotel room. But in the middle of this AAU tournament, he didn’t go back to get some food or watch a movie or take a nap. He hadn’t shot as well as…
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Recruiting rundown: Under-the-radar classes to watch in 2012-13
May 23, 2012, 8:45 AM EDT
College basketball recruiting junkies have no doubt heard about the impressive 2012 incoming class hauls that have been reeled in by UCLA, Kentucky, Arizona and other perennial blue blood programs. Often, BCS conference teams dominate team recruiting class rankings, by virtue of pulling in the most publicized and touted of recruits. Still, recent NCAA tournament…
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Did I not get the memo about Tuesday? Was 5/22/12 National “Let’s Make Stupid Decisions” Day? Because the top stories in college hoops are all centered around dumb ideas – But before we get to that, you gotta read some Luke Winn. It’s not exactly his power rankings, but any Luke Winn article with charts…
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Louisville’s scholarships, Montrezl Harrell and an epic comment thread
May 23, 2012, 12:40 AM EDT
While Devonta Pollard slowly draws out his recruitment, Montrezl Harrell — the former Virginia Tech commit who was recently released from his letter of intent — has become the nation’s hottest recruit. And according to Joe Davis of Scoutsfocus.com, Harrell now has a top four: Louisville, Florida, Cincinnati and Alabama. Billy Donovan will be coaching…
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As he is wont to do, Luke Winn of Sports Illustrated took a topic that we had all been discussing and gave us a way to measure it numerically. In this case, it is realignment. In a column posted on Tuesday afternoon, Winn took a unique look at the shifting of the conferences. Instead of…
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Tommy Dempsey took over the Rider program back in 2005, when he took over for current athletic director Don Harnum. Dempsey had eight wins that year. And while he was never quite able to get the Broncs over the hump and into the NCAA tournament — despite sending Jason Thompson to the lottery in 2008 —…
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The Big East tournament to expand along with the conference?
May 22, 2012, 7:01 PM EDT
The Big East coaches and athletic directors are in Florida right now, and according to every single report from the meetings, it appears likely that they will push through an all-inclusive Big East tournament once realignment has finished turning the league into a barely recognizable, watered-down extension of Conference USA. That last sentence was a…
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So is the Crosstown Shooutout actually moving to a neutral court?
May 22, 2012, 6:12 PM EDT
On Tuesday morning, Bill Koch of the Cincinnati Enquirer broke the news that the Crosstown Shootout — one of the few nationally relevant rivalries left after the latest round of realignment — will, in fact, be played next season. The Crosstown Shootout, for those that don’t know, pits Xavier and Cincinnati, two schools with campuses…
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I love the idea of the Crossroads Classic. In a region as steeped in basketball tradition as Indiana, it doesn’t get much better than the state’s four best programs taking part in a intrastate double-header. Last season was the first time the event was held, and those in attendance at Bankers Life Fieldhouse certainly got…
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If the document featuring the original 13 rules of basketball can fetch $4.3 million, perhaps paying $1.2 million for James Naismith’s childhood home is a bargain. One catch: It’d mean living in Canada. This listing of the 162-year-old home (with a hat tip for Jeff Eisenberg) breaks it all down for interested buyers (photo from…
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Flash forward to the 2013-14 season. Texas will be the team to beat. Maryland and Providence will be top 10 teams. And Iowa might be the Big Ten’s best team. At least, that’s according to the earliest projection I’ve ever seen of a season. For that, you can thank the guys over at Cracked Sidewalks.…
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Nearly every Big Ten schools can be found among college sports’ biggest revenue producers. Makes sense when one sees what kind of money the Big Ten Network generates. Per The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the five-year-old TV network had $242 million in revenue for 2011. That figure is courtesy of SNL Kagan, which analyzes the media…
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- Yesterday marked the one-year “anniversary” of the devastating tornadoes that struck Joplin, Missouri. Rob Dauster and I had the privilege to stop in Joplin during our #BIAHroadtrip in January. Here is our story from the experience of a lifetime. If you read just one thing today, make sure it is this – No disrespect to our very own Rob Dauster (Yes, the same…
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The NBA Draft is still more than a month away, which means that it is still in the back of the mind of most basketball fans. That’s what happens when you have Kevin Durant out-dueling Kobe Bryant while LeBron James and Dwyane Wade try and show up on a nightly basis. But that doesn’t mean…
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Longtime Pacific head coach Bob Thomason to retire after next season
May 22, 2012, 12:02 AM EDT
The 2012-2013 season will be the last in Pacific’s tenure in the Big West, as they prepare to move to the West Coast Conference. It will also be the last season in Bob Thomason’s tenure as the head coach of the Tigers. Thomason has run the program at his alma mater for the past 25…
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Over the past month, the preeminent discussion on the college basketball blogs has been the end result of realignment. For the most part, the big changes were made last summer. Missouri and Texas A&M jumped to the SEC. Syracuse and Pitt finalized their move to the ACC. West Virginia gobbled up a spot in the…
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There are those that will tell you college basketball has a transfer problem, that too many players transfer too quickly after expecting to start from the moment they set foot on campus. The thinking is that due to the deification of high school stars and the immediate success of talents like Kevin Durant, Kevin Love…
