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Kentucky fans have dreamed of this day for almost 20 years. Booing Christian Laettner will be a delight. Even better? It’s all for charity. Duke’s legendary forward – who forever earned BBN enmity by stomping on a Wildcat and hitting the game-winning shot in perhaps the best college basketball game ever played – will be…
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Chris Mack only needed nine days to teach Kenny Frease a lesson. The Xavier coach indefinitely suspended his 7-foot center on Oct. 14 for what he termed “not fulfilling all the responsibilities of a Xavier basketball player.” Frease “had to prove” he wanted to be part of the team, so Mack’s message apparently didn’t need…
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Louisville gets the good word on Blackshear’s eligibility
Oct 22, 2011, 11:19 PM EDT
Louisville finally got the good word Friday – freshman Wayne Blackshear can play this season. Cardinals coach Rick Pitino confirmed Friday that the 6-5 McDonald’s All-American was cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse and is a full academic qualifier. Pitino was always optimistic Blackshear would be cleared, but the news must’ve been a relief. He’s recovering…
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Bowling Green’s new arena gets equally impressive rap video
Oct 22, 2011, 5:05 PM EDT
See this joint? That’s the Stroh Center, Bowling Green’s brand-spanking new $30 million arena that opened last month. (Image is from Dave Spengler) The Falcons’s men’s and women’s basketball teams and volleyball teams will all play in those fancy new digs, which seats up to 4,700 for athletic events. As you might guess, the school’s…
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The College of Charleston got a huge boost on Thursday, as Adjehi Baru was finally cleared by the NCAA to play this season. Baru was rated as a top 60 recruit coming out of high school, and the importance of this decision cannot be understated for the Cougars. This is a team that was already…
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I can honestly say that this is a sentence that I never thought that I would write: the MAAC may be a two-bid conference this season. I’m not saying that for effect, either. If things break the right way, the MAAC may be deserving of an at-large bid. Why am I bringing this up now?…
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Jared Sullinger isn’t the only one who used an NCAA tournament loss for offseason motivation. Bernard Scott thought about Florida State’s Sweet 16 loss to VCU every day this summer. Consider the 72-71 overtime loss a big, nasty specter, hanging over his head. “It’s just been kind of haunting in the offseason,” James said at…
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Billy Gillispie’s college hoops rise could’ve been a Hollywood movie, but not one with a Disney ending. Maybe one by David Fincher. After rebuilding UTEP and turning Texas A&M into a Top 25 program, Gillispie got to the mountaintop at Kentucky, only to fail miserably after two seasons and bottom out with a drunken driving…
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Once again, Ohio State will be sitting at the top of every preseason Big Ten prediction and somewhere in everyone’s top ten when the polls come out. That’s what happens when you bring back your star center and your starting point guard, both of whom started as freshmen. Throw in a guy with a chance…
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Arizona has as much raw talent on their roster as any team in the Pac-10. Sean Miller has made sure of it with the way he has been recruiting since landing the job in April of 2009. The issue is how much of that talent is young. The Wildcats have four talented freshmen on their…
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All week long, the folks over at Grantland are running a series featuring writers pen 4,000 word arguments as to why their favorite team will win the national title. Matt Jones, the brains and the brawn behind Kentucky Sports Radio and the leader of the cult known as Big Blue Nation, was picked to provide…
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There will never be another Michael Jordan. There will never be another Larry Bird. And there will never be another Bird-Jordan McDonald’s commercial. But Stanford gave a shot. In an effort to promote the Cardinal’s upcoming scrimmage on Oct. 23, big men Dwight Powell and Josh Owens try to one-up each other with a series…
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Rick Pitino hasn’t minced words regarding Syracuse and Pitt bolting the Big East for the ACC. The Louisville coach has excoriated both school’s leaders at every turn (complete with a ‘Godfather’ reference) and saved plenty for the ACC. But his latest diatribe at Big East media day won’t earn him any fans. “My problem is…
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A Final Four run elevated Shaka Smart and VCU to national prominence. Now comes the hard part – staying in that spotlight. Smart was the main attraction at CAA media day Tuesday, befitting for a coach coming off an historic season – from First Four to Final Four is a feat few will ever match…
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Tyshawn Taylor and Thomas Robinson are going to be the two most valuable players for Kansas next season. They will be the veterans, the team’s leaders. Taylor is a three-year starter that has been through the battles with this group, while Robinson is the one guy seemingly everyone in the country is predicting will breakout…
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The Syracuse Post-Standard put out their preseason media poll for the Big East, and it looks like this: 1. Syracuse 29 (6 1st-place votes) 2. Connecticut 30 (8) 3. Louisville 45 (2) 4. Pittsburgh 58 5. Marquette 90 6. Cincinnati 96 7. West Virginia 120 8. Villanova 124 9. Notre Dame 141 10. Georgetown 153…
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Derrick Nix must have hung out with Jared Sullinger this summer
Oct 19, 2011, 8:58 AM EDT
Delvon Roe was supposed to start along side Draymond Green Tom Izzo this season. But, as well all found out, Roe’s knees simply wouldn’t cooperate. The hard-working, former five-star recruit simply didn’t want to endure another season of sitting out practices in exchange for ice baths and training room excursions. Can you blame him, especially…
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Bob Knight wasn’t a rule-breaker at Indiana or Texas Tech. He had issues, but staying within NCAA guidelines wasn’t one. That’s one of the reasons why he’s unafraid to speak his mind when it comes to other coaches he thinks didn’t play fair. Might be time to rip himself. Knight may have helped his son,…
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Example No. 359 of how college football dwarfs college hoops: Oklahoma has spent more than $50,000 since 2009 on an investigation into major NCAA rules violations by the hoops program. That may actually be a bargain. Ohio State says it spent $800,000 on its consultant for its investigation and for an information technology company to…
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This video of Josh Thompson from Wagner College went viral over the weekend – and for good reason. The guy dunked over his mom. Thompson, a 6-4 junior from Richland, N.J., averaged 7.3 points and 4.1 rebounds last season. I’d bet he’ll have a hard time topping that play all season. Hey, some Midnight Madness…
