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The Report Card
A new series, the Daily Report Card tells you all you need to know about the day in college hoops. From good to bad and bad to worse, I'll be laying down the law.
Daily Dribble: Sunday Report Card
The Report Card
A new series of articles I'll be writing daily, the Daily Report Card tells you all you need to know about the day in college hoops. From good to bad and bad to worse, I'll be laying down the law.
Redemption in Paradise: Maui Preview
As usual, the 2007-08 college basketball season will kick off with a slate of early season, made for-TV tournaments, and once again one of the best among them will be the EA Sports Maui Invitational.
Five of this year’s eight team field have been to the Final Four in the last four years: Marquette (2003), Duke and Oklahoma State (2004), Illinois (2005) and LSU (2006). Two of them (Duke and Marquette) will begin their new campaign ranked in the Top 10 nationally.
Daily Dribble: Big Ten Top 25 Players
Following the ACC
Top 25 Players earlier in the week, I move to the Midwest to take on the Big
Ten. Outside the top handful of players, the talent is not comparable to the
other BCS leagues. Still, there's new talent at Purdue, Ohio State, and
elsewhere that could push some of these mediocre veterans off the list by
season's end.
Big Ten Top 25 Players
2007-08 Illinois Basketball Preview
Illinois' Pruitt to Test NBA Draft Waters
Expert Picks: Week of January 29th
#9 Pitt at Villanova, Michigan State at Illinois, Texas at Texas Tech, #7 Oregon at #2 UCLA
Expert Predictions: Jan 23-26
Indiana at Illinois, Texas A&M at Texas Tech, Kentucky at Georgia, Clemson at Duke
Daily Dribble: 1/18
Thoughts, thoughts, and more thoughts: UNC owned Clemson from the opening tip. Thankfully Clemson can block shots, otherwise the Heels would have won by 40. Even decent basketball fans have probably never heard of anybody on Clemson. The same can be said for Air Force, but every other team has a name player or a guy whose gotten some pub during the season (like Aj Graves on Butler.) This isn't necessarily a bad thing though. Good stories about how hard UNC's practice was after losing to Va Tech. That practice was probably better than just about any game you'll ever see.
Tyler Hansbrough's still putting up good numbers, but I get the sense his draft stock is dropping just about every week. Every time he shoots the ball from his waist, you can see a scout cringing.