0 comments by Steve Fetch on 6/9/2015
Men’s college basketball, for the first time in awhile, adopted some sensible rules changes when it agreed to go to a 30 second shot clock, reduce timeouts, and expand the charge circle. Reasonable minds can disagree on the first, but the latter two are excellent changes to college basketball, and should help improve the flow […]
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0 comments by Mike Ferguson on 6/8/2015
For college sports fans, it’s a bit of a dead period. The College World Series will be here soon, but the Final Four has long passed and the start of the 2015 college football season is still months away. Politics have been in the news lately with a number of candidates announcing their decisions to […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
It feels like only yesterday since Iowa State had its basketball program turned upside down by the departure of Fred Hoiberg. After all, Hoiberg wasn’t the Mayor of Ames for no reason. Really, honestly, what Hoiberg did for the university was incredible. Between helping to put it on the map of being a national contender on a yearly basis, […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 6/1/2015
Fred Hoiberg is dead. Relax, not literally. I meant the figurative kind. The college basketball version of Fred Hoiberg, if you will. Or, more properly, the idea of what a coach like Fred Hoiberg can do to help make college basketball a better, more exciting, and supremely enjoyable product. No matter. The “Five Freds System” […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 5/25/2015
As the NBA draft inches closer, more and more weird things will happen to prospects’ stock levels. Some will drop because of notions that the NBA game has changed; others will rise for that same reason; and many people will abandon all reason for the sake of making uneducated declarations in the hopes of sounding […]
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 Matt Zemek on 5/18/2015
The coming college basketball season has finalized a schedule for the latest Big 12-SEC Challenge. Naturally, the fact that Kentucky and Kansas will meet is the headline story from the event. Wildcats-Jayhawks might receive more publicity than any other non-conference game on the road to the 2016 NCAA Tournament. John Calipari, Bill Self, and two […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
In February, the college basketball community said a long and heartfelt goodbye to Dean Smith, who later surprised his players with the beautiful gesture of giving them $200 to enjoy a dinner. Smith’s imprint — on life, basketball, and the University of North Carolina — was so large that he’ll continue to be talked about […]
0 comments by Bart D on 5/15/2015
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.” – Henry Ford Every attitude or action has a shelf life. I’m not sure anyone will understand this reference, but remember the band Blink 182. In the early to mid 90’s, Blink toiled mostly in the underground west […]
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 Joseph Nardone on 5/12/2015
We are all weak and imperfect beings. Regarding the biannual what’s wrong with college basketball columns: I swore there would be no caving on my end, and that I would not write any more than absolutely necessary, but it looks as though a trip to church to confess some sins might be in order. Here […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 5/7/2015
If you had asked Florida Gator basketball fans to offer their ideal replacement for Billy Donovan, chances are that Archie Miller would have been the runaway top choice. For this reason, the hiring of Louisiana Tech’s Michael White as the school’s new head coach might not be seen as a home run. Given that the […]
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 Matt Zemek on 5/4/2015
Anyone who has studied the history of college basketball at an appreciable depth for a reasonable length of time knows that the 1979 Final Four helped the NBA more than any other Final Four. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird turned the NBA from a professional sports league shrouded in shadow to a thriving entity with […]
