A reconsidered thesis: Maybe there’s room for more little guys this March

Any commentator who dives into the pool of news analysis — and makes assessments based on what s/he sees — has to do one thing more than anything else: acknowledge when the flow of events changes. What might have been one week’s accurate-enough analysis can be overturned the following week. Any forceful or firm proclamations […]

College Basketball’s Five Most Expensive Games Of Upcoming Weekend

The Duke Blue Devils have done a good job setting us up for a ferocious finish this week in college basketball, as they scored upsets over Louisville and Virginia earlier last week and added to their momentum with a huge road win over ACC rival, North Carolina on Wednesday night. Duke’s huge upset over the […]

Watch: Tyler Davis scores at buzzer to lift Aggies over Kentucky

A technical foul against Isaac Humphries of Kentucky set up Texas A&M for a chance to win and Tyler Davis scored a put back to help A&M beat the Cats….. More clutch. Tyler Davis scores at the buzzer to win it for Texas A&M! https://t.co/r5JWDc8rHN — College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay)

PIONEERS, O PIONEERS! Joe Scott has tried to lead Denver to its first NCAA tournament, but after almost a decade on the job, that goal remains elusive. The Pioneering pursuit continues for a man dedicated to the process of coaching.

Coaching in focus: The Second-Chance Club

In a sport with 351 head coaches, a lot of stories are waiting to be told. Typically, the stories which capture the headlines are the stories of the men who lead their teams into the Madness of March. However, basketball is bigger and broader than just the sweet sound of success. It’s also about the […]

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Mark Turgeon and others try to pull off college basketball’s great escape

College basketball differs from college football in so many ways. One of them: time. Basketball coaches might not have an abundance of time on an overall level — look at North Carolina State, Memphis, and other teams which were essentially finished as at-large candidates before February even began. That said, basketball bosses have so much […]

Texas Tech’s Devon Thomas is hoisted in the crowd after Texas Tech defeated Oklahoma 65-63 in an NCAA basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Brad Tollefson) ORG XMIT: TXBT108

Texas Tech wins a classic mid-February bubble game

Wednesday night’s game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Oklahoma Sooners wasn’t a classic in the sense of being the best basketball you’ve ever seen. This was not a remarkable showcase of hoops at the highest level, with Buddy Hield struggling (he’s human, ya know) and Texas Tech making only 10 of 17 […]

If not us, who? If not now, when? Those questions echo through the world of men’s college basketball, as it waits for the first female head coach. Nancy Lieberman could soon emerge from the mess in Sacramento, giving athletic directors a chance to make history… and improve their program.

Need a new basketball coach, Division I ADs? Here’s one suggestion

We’re not too far away from the end of the college basketball regular season. Don’t look now, but March arrives in two weeks. Small-conference tournaments will begin, and power-conference regular seasons will give way to the festival of brackets which fills our lives during the transition to longer evenings and the coming spring. The following […]

Removed from the bright lights, coaches age with their programs

When only 128 people hold a specific job position on the planet, one can reasonably say that such a job is rather exclusive. Such is the case for head coaches of Football Bowl Subdivision programs. If 351 people hold a specific job, it’s not as though the position is terrifically expansive or widely available. Yet, […]

PATRICK DODSON/GAZETTE PHOTOGRAPHER UAlbany’s Peter Hooley (12) shoots a buzzer beater three pointer to beat Stony Brook in the America East championship game at University at Albany’s SEFCU Arena on Saturday, March 14, 2015.

There’s a huge game Wednesday night… followed by Duke-UNC

Is it an embellishment to say that a huge game exists on the Wednesday-night schedule in college hoops… and that oh, by the way, there’s also Duke and North Carolina on your television? Sure. Is it wrong to say that the America East clash between the Stony Brook Seawolves and the Albany Great Danes is […]

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