0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/27/2015
With fewer underclassmen declaring for the 2015 NFL Draft, what better way to see what this class has to offer than at the Senior Bowl on Saturday? The game produced several strong performers, but as most know, it is the performance through the week at practice for the scouts that makes or breaks an NFL […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/26/2015
One of the central emergent themes in this college basketball season — one which will continue to merit attention in the coming weeks — is that a lot of big-name programs are in trouble relative to making the NCAA tournament. The two teams that played in the first national semifinal at last year’s Final Four, […]
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It’s good on a number of levels that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski notched his 1,000th victory on Sunday, in a non-conference game against St. John’s. The win occurred outside the realm of the ACC. It served as a stand-alone event removed from the league race. The seminal achievement in the history of college basketball could […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/25/2015
Michigan State lost at Nebraska on Saturday. You might not think that’s too big a deal. After all, Michigan State lost at home to the Huskers a season ago, and not only made the NCAA tournament, but gained a No. 4 seed and eventually progressed to the Elite Eight. This is a Tom Izzo team. […]
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A total of 137 games were played on Saturday. What five stories emerged from the pack? Here they are: * 5 – DAVIDSON AND DAYTON AVOID BAD LOSSES There is a difference between a quality win and a bad loss, between making a tangible gain and avoiding a huge step backward. For the Davidson Wildcats […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/24/2015
Showing the maturity of a team beyond its years on the roster, Kansas picked up a huge road win over Texas Saturday. This was a strong bounce-back after falling to Iowa State just a week earlier for its first Big 12 loss. That setback in Ames against the Cyclones exposed some weaknesses and possibly a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/23/2015
We still have five weeks to go until March, and seven weeks until Selection Sunday on March 15. Moving parts will continue to shift across the chessboard. A team in the top 25 of the (meaningless) polls will lose two or three games late in the season and approach the bubble if not crash all […]
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After Thursday night’s win over Maryland, Indiana has proven all of the national media wrong through 20 games and has forced its way to a first-place tie with Wisconsin in the Big Ten. In fact, Dan Dakich has been calling for Tom Crean to be the 2015 Coach of the Year favorite due to the […]
Oregon State head coach Wayne Tinkle has done a remarkable job with his roster this season, but if he’s going to make the NCAA tournament, he’ll have to get his team to win on the road, something it manifestly failed to do on Wednesday night against Arizona State.
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This is becoming a special college basketball season for a number of programs that, in recent years, have known nothing other than misery. Teams that have slogged through hopeless seasons over the past half-decade are finally beginning to dig out of a cave and rediscover what it means to live in the light. Two of […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 1/22/2015
When I watch a college basketball game, I’m not one of those people who pays much attention to who is announcing the game, what the scorebug on the TV looks like, or most other aesthetics. However, one thing I do love to see is the different court designs. Perhaps that’s why I hate how the […]
Sterling Shepard signs with the Oklahoma Sooners on national signing day in 2012.
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As Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com reported Monday, it would appear that college football is finally going to implement an early signing period for high school recruits. Momentum for the change has been building for years as competition for prospects has ramped up with the evolution of technology. Even after recruits have made verbal commitments to […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/21/2015
After the Big East lost many of the heavy hitters that made the conference so legendary in hoops for the past few decades, it appeared that it could be a while before really competitive basketball returned to the league. However, it is well ahead of schedule. It took just two years to return to a […]
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Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart There’s an old country song by Alan Jackson that goes, “too much of a good thing … is a good thing.” It defies the logic that “there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.” Alan Jackson obviously was ahead of his time and talking […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/20/2015
At the beginning of the bowl season, I wrote about why bowl games are so great: They encourage more coaches to be uninhibited in their decision making, compared to the regular season. There’s nothing about that piece I’d want to walk back or retract, but there was and is something incomplete about it: I should have […]
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No, I did not expect to use an NFL game as the source of column material this week, but much as another Green Bay-Seattle game from a few years ago — the “Fail Mary” game — magnified what I had written about a college football controversy, this latest Packer-Seahawk tussle also says something important about […]
