0 comments by Steve Fetch on 6/2/2015
Even though last season was the first in which New Mexico State won the regular season title in this stretch, the Aggies have claimed the last four automatic bids into the NCAA tournament. After losing four seniors off last year’s team that went 13-1 in WAC play, however, the time might be ripe for someone […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 5/21/2015
With the NBA Combine (and lottery) done with for another season, some guys have moved up (and down) draft boards. I am reluctant to change too much given that I think years of data, stats, and scouting should outweigh a weekend, but I do think that seeing how some guys are likely to be used […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 5/14/2015
North Carolina Central under head coach LaVelle Moton has absolutely owned the MEAC as of late. They have won the league’s regular season title in two of the previous three seasons, and lost just two conference games in three years. Unfortunately, they’ve been to just one NCAA tournament in that time. Last year, despite going […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 5/13/2015
He won’t be around until the fall of 2016, but elite point guard Tyus Battle’s decision to commit to John Beilein and Michigan could signal the start of a seismic shift in the future of not just Michigan basketball, but basketball in the Big 10 and around the country.
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 5/5/2015
We are just under two months away from the NBA Draft, and more importantly the deadline for players to enter their names into the Draft early has passed, so this is as good of a time as any for my first NBA Draft big board. Please note this is a ranking and not a mock […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 4/29/2015
This is the first in a series of posts leading up to the 2015-’16 college basketball season, wherein I preview each of the 33 conferences (well, 32 + 1 independent) that offer Division 1 basketball. There will be no set format, so some will be a bit of an overview, some will talk about sleepers, […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 4/8/2015
It always seems weird to have a preseason top 25 the day after the national title game, when most of the top college players haven’t announced their NBA intentions, and especially this year when a lot of top recruits have not announced where they’ll be attending school next year. Still, last year’s effort ended up […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/27/2015
Tennessee announced Friday that it has fired head coach Donnie Tyndall after just one year in charge of the program. Tyndall was accused of NCAA violations while at his previous job, Southern Miss. These violations include providing improper benefits. Tennessee reportedly interviewed Tyndall twice, and the NCAA called Tennessee with a report of what Tyndall […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/25/2015
Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber enjoyed a great start to his tenure as the Wildcats’ head coach, winning a share of the Big 12 championship in 2013. However, the Wildcats finished fifth in the league last season and a disappointing eighth in 2015 after being picked fourth in the preseason. Weber is also yet […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/24/2015
As the lone independent remaining in Division 1 basketball, NJIT didn’t have a chance for an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, and with the inability to play a schedule that would warrant an at large bid, the Highlanders were doomed to the CIT, a third tier postseason tournament.
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/21/2015
Yesterday during Wichita State’s narrow victory over Indiana, CBS analyst Chris Webber joked (?) that Kansas was scared to play Wichita State and that the Jayhawks were ducking the Shockers. Joke or not, that sentiment has poured out of Wichita (conveniently only in the last couple years) and now the national media seems to be […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/17/2015
Even as a fan of a perennial contender, my favorite (and I assume most people’s favorite) part about the NCAA tournament is the opening two days and the possibility of seeing upsets I’ll remember for years. It’s weird that we will remember certain games instead of others: I will always remember watching Northwestern State upset […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/14/2015
In what was the best possible result for the Ivy League this year, the league’s two best teams went into a one-game playoff knowing that while both teams could be cinderellas in a week’s time, only one of them would get the chance to prove it. Harvard and Yale did not disappoint, with the Crimson pulling […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/11/2015
The Big 12 tournament kicks off today, but really does not start in earnest until Thursday with the quarterfinals. The bottom four teams in the league are relegated to the opening round games, which pits Texas against Texas Tech, and Kansas State against TCU, with the Longhorns needing at least a win to feel good […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 3/10/2015
For the power conference teams, the conference tournament is usually a mixture of trying to get rested for the NCAA tournament, trying to move off the bubble, or maybe settle a score with the rival you only got to play once in the regular season. For others, it’s the last chance to squeak into the […]
