0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 10/5/2015
A rather crazy college football weekend is behind us. A few games really altered the way people are projecting the rest of the season. Also, rumors have started to swirl about getting rid of a certain coach in Texas well before he really has a chance to overcome the deficiencies (lack of talent) he inherited. […]
Rick Pitino and Louisville made The American a much stronger league in 2014 compared to the current 2015 version. Sure, SMU leads the conference this season, but it achieved a lot more in the 2014 campaign. Why is 2015 SMU’s RPI at 18 while last season’s team carried an RPI of 53 into Selection Sunday? The answer becomes very obvious as you continue to read this piece… and no, it’s not about winning games, either.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/2/2015
Whether or not Rick Pitino knew what his former director of basketball operations was doing at the University of Louisville, many people seem to have made up their minds. * The investigation into allegations put forth by Katina Powell against Andre McGee — who was Pitino’s director of basketball operations from 2012 through 2014 — […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch
Last year’s Patriot League title game was bereft of the 1 and 2 seeds in the league for the first time ever, as Lafayette took down American to make its first NCAA tournament since 2000. It will likely be a short lived stay at the top for the Leopards, who lose their two best players […]
PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTEMBER 5: Jahad Thomas #5 of the Temple Owls runs past Marcus Allen #2 of the Penn State Nittany Lions to score a touchdown in the second quarter on September 5, 2015 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Jahad Thomas;Marcus Allen
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
College football is upon us. Well, it actually entered our television sets on Thursday night, and there are a few moments between the bevy of games that will appear on Saturday, but semantics are for losers. There is a lot going on in the world of college football. Thankfully, less of it has to deal […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 10/1/2015
In what other walks of life do we tell other people what they should or shouldn’t do as far as their livelihood is concerned? The answer, outside politics and sports, happen to be no other people. Yet, because opinions, everyone — and their respective mothers — wants to chime in on everything Leonard Fournette. So, […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 9/30/2015
Good morning, humans. We are at that weird part of the week when people are no longer coming down from the weekend high, yet no one is that excited about the weekend because it still feels so damn far away. Also, it kind of hurts the soul that there isn’t any college football games on […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 9/29/2015
Larry Brown has had some troubles with the NCAA before, most notably leaving Kansas under sanctions in the late 80s, and his latest punishment is a suspension for 10 percent of SMU’s games in the coming season.
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
The Student Section isn’t much for dumping news on readers’ craniums. Instead, our managerial team decided long ago that our readership would be best served by giving you new, original, and — hopefully — insightful columns each and every day. With that being said, we have decided to at least help make TSS your main […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 9/25/2015
Did you know the Southern Conference and the Big South Conference are two different conferences? You do now. While the Big South had a better average ranking in KenPom last season, the league is weaker at the top, with no top 100 teams last year and just two in the top 150. That’s part of […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 9/24/2015
Winning is hard. There is no doubt about it. It is a lot harder than losing. For instance, if a person were so inclined, s/he could lose on purpose. There are no ways to go about winning on purpose. So, yes, winning is much harder than losing — which makes winning, by default, hard. Enter: […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER
What’s in a name, and what’s in a word? It can be confusing. Just ask Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari. Baseball historians know all about “Merkle’s Boner” from the 1908 National League season. It was the gateway for the Chicago Cubs to win their most recent World Series title. The reference is made because “boner” […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 9/17/2015
The Southern Conference has lost a lot of its luster since Davidson left for the Atlantic 10, but did have a top 100 team last season, as well as another that flirted with being in the top 150. The league also features one of the most exciting teams in the nation, VMI, which led the […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 9/1/2015
The Big Sky Conference has had some of the bigger stars in mid to low major college basketball over the last few seasons. The obvious example is Damian Lillard, who went from star at Weber State to star with the Portland Trail Blazers, but just last year the nation’s leading scorer was none other than […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 8/30/2015
I must have seen the movie a thousand times, but never before has Deep Impact made such an impacting impression on me. You know, this is the movie with Morgan Freeman as the president, Tea Leoni as the lowly reporter turned national news breaker, Elijah Wood as the amateur star-gazer turned unlikely hero and one of […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 8/21/2015
It is a tricky time of the year to be a college basketball fan. The sport seems so far away, yet so incredibly close that you can hear the student section roaring when Willie McDunkaroo scores the game-winning bucket against a rival. All this makes the general college basketball fan rather sad and, unfortunately, a […]
