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The SEC is back. The Naismith folks say so. After a few sub-par seasons, the conference boasts its best group of title contenders and depth since 2007. Maybe that’s why the four top schools – Kentucky, Vandy, Florida and Alabama – all placed at least one player on the Naismith Trophy’s preseason list of the…
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Monday’s Shootaround: Arizona, St. John’s, Miss. State all win
Nov 8, 2011, 9:00 AM EDT
Mississippi State 76, Eastern Kentucky 66: See here. Arizona 73, Valparaiso 64: The Wildcats were in a dogfight for much of the first half, but once Arizona ratcheted up their defense in the second half, this thing turned into a rout. Sean Miller’s club used a 16-3 surge to open the second half to open…
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Conference realignment is always a reliable source of head-shaking. Every day – sometimes every hour – there’s material that makes me wonder if anyone realizes what’s going on. I mean, if realignment is being driven by college football then why do the guys on College Sports Talk spent part of this segment ripping pretty much…
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John Calipari got his wish – and then some. After lackluster start during an exhibition win last Wednesday, the Kentucky coach tweaked his starting lineup to add freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist – perhaps their best defender – to the mix in hopes of a better start. The result was a score that can hardly be believed:…
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It’s time to start tracking results: the regular season begins. The matchup between North Carolina and Michigan State is certainly Week 1′s premier event. The Tar Heels open the season ranked No. 1 and are among the favorites to reach the Final Four in New Orleans. Michigan State has some new faces but also the…
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George Mason senior guard Andre Cornelius will be able to suit up for the Patriots this season, but he’ll be ineligible until the end of the first semester. Cornelius, who is the only returning member from last year’s starting back court, was arrested back in September on charges of credit card fraud. He’ll miss the…
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Michael Jordan’s sons are Central Florida’s two most famous players. But that hasn’t kept Marcus and Jeffrey from landing in coach Donnie Jones’ doghouse. Neither Jeffrey, a senior guard, or Marcus, a junior guard and one of the team’s top players, played during Saturday’s exhibition against West Virginia Tech. Marcus was suspended for violations of…
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AWARDS Player of the Year: Ashton Gibbs, Sr., Pitt Gibbs deserves all the love he is going to get this preseason, as he is quite possibly the best all-around shooter in the country. What makes him so dangerous is his incredible ability to get open by using screens off-the-ball. He’s Pitt’s go-to player and really…
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Sean Miller isn’t mincing words about No. 16 Arizona’s opener against Valparaiso. Not after two lackluster exhibition games. “We just got better by leaps and bounds (last season) and I hope we can do it again. It’s not about panicking as much as being very realistic that here’s our starting point and here are the…
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2011-2012 SEC Preview: Kentucky’s king, but the league is good
Nov 7, 2011, 11:30 AM EDT
AWARDS Player of the Year: Anthony Davis, Fr., Kentucky I don’t like doing this. I don’t like buying into the hype of the freshmen. I don’t like giving them awards like this prior to spending a second on a collegiate court. Because sometimes, that hype becomes too much for the youngsters to handle. We all…
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Tyshawn Taylor isn’t going to be showing up on many preseason all-american teams. He didn’t make the BIAH list of Top 25 point guards in the country, and he barely made the list of Top 140 players in the country. Kansas fans will call those rankings snubs, and based on raw ability, that is probably…
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It’s now or never for Herb Pope. If Seton Hall’s senior is lucky, he’ll finally get a chance to showcase all that talent. When the 6-8 forward transferred to the South Orange, N.J., school in 2008, he was a guy who’d overcome plenty of personal difficulties to average a double-double as a Pirates sophomore. Yet…
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Early on Saturday morning, Kevin Duffy of the Danbury News-Times broke open the story of the ineligibility of Ryan Boatright. An NCAA source with knowledge of the investigation of UConn men’s basketball freshman Ryan Boatright’s eligibility said Friday that Reggie Rose, Boatright’s AAU coach with the D-Rose All Stars, purchased a plane ticket for Boatright.…
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Enjoy this season college hoops fans. You may not see this many sophomore stars again for some time. The ancillary benefit of the NBA’s lockout has been well-documented, but it’s worth repeating as college hoops’ 2011-12 season opens today – future stars stayed in school. Some, like Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger, might’ve returned regardless of…
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Pitt is done pretending Ashton Gibbs is a point guard. It’s now Tray Woodall’s time. Not that Gibbs – perhaps the Big East’s best player – is going anywhere. He’s simply no longer listed as the de-facto point guard. The Panthers are focused on having the 6-2 senior score doing what he does best: run…
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Preparing for a season’s hard enough when you’re transitioning to a new program. But when there’s are potential NCAA sanctions coming your way, it just makes everything so … dreary. But that’s not how Jim Larranaga rolls. And right now, the same goes for Frank Haith. The guy who built George Mason into a name…
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Blogger Spotlight: How ACC Sports Journal does the double dip
Nov 5, 2011, 9:03 AM EDT
The season starts Monday. For people who only focus on college hoops like me, it feels somewhat like Christmas morning – you’ve seemingly waited forever and you finally get to open all your presents. And, also like some Christmas mornings, the results aren’t always what you hoped. There are only three games Monday and the…
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AWARDS Player of the Year: Jared Sullinger, So., Ohio State Picking a Player of the Year in the Big Ten is as difficult as any conference in the country, but I’m going to have to go with Sullinger. We’ll start with the obvious — Sullinger is the most dominating interior presence in the country. He’s…
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The most interesting part about Louisville’s 62-54 victory over Bellarmine, the reigning Division II national champs, in an exhibition on Thursday night had nothing to do with the Cardinals. It wasn’t the 38 minutes that Elisha Justice was forced to play with Peyton Siva sitting out due to a concussion, and it wasn’t the 13…
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There may not be an injury this season more devastating that the acl tear suffered by Virginia Tech’s JT Thompson on Wednesday. The redshirt senior will be forced to miss his second straight full season. In September of 2010, he tore the acl in his left knee. This time it was the acl in his…
