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Big East. Failure or Success?

April 8, 2009

On my way to the airport last night, to catch a “red eye” flight to Minneapolis, I listened to a couple of guys discussing “March Madness” on a rather famous radio network.  Michigan State and North Carolina had just defeated the last two remaining Big East teams, UConn and Villanova.  One guy in particular was [...]

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Bennett and Calipari. Two Diverse Psyches

April 2, 2009

Over the past couple of days there have been two major coaching changes in college basketball involving two fine coaches.  Tony Bennett left Washington State to go to Virginia, and John Calipari left Memphis to go to Kentucky.  I find it to be interesting how different these two men are, not only in their completely diverse coaching [...]

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Bill Davidson-A Unique Man

March 14, 2009

Yesterday was a very enjoyable day of watching college basketball, with all the fun and excitement leading into the NCAA tournament.  However, as I was getting ready to go to bed,  I was terribly saddened by the news of the  passing of Bill Davidson, the owner of the Detroit Pistons. It has been well documented the story [...]

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High School Basketball

March 13, 2009

Wednesday, I went to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association 3A Boys and Girls State Basketball Championships being played in the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington.  It’s the old fashioned type of tourney with16 teams having qualified through various regionals in order to get to the State Tourney.  The Tacoma Dome is a big building….they can play [...]

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The Revolving #1 Door

March 10, 2009

Well, U Conn gets beat this weekend in a hard fought and entertaining game at Pitt.  This is the second time Pitt has beaten UConn this season, both times when UConn was ranked #1 in the polls.  North Carolina was the pre-season #1.  Then UNC went on to hold that position for the next 7 weeks.  In the last [...]

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Fans, Do you Boo or Cheer?

February 17, 2009

I went to a college game this weekend with my wife, Jeanie, one of our sons, Conor, and Conor’s fiance’, Katie. Katie had not been to a major college game before, and was quite excited.  Before the game started, it was a raucous crowd, with the student section really getting into it, as they do [...]

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Dunk Contest Revisited

February 16, 2009

Congratulations to Nate Robinson in winning the 2009 NBA dunk contest with his final dunk coming by jumping over his rival, Dwight Howard.  The classic match-up of big vs small.  Nate cannot only get up, but he also has a great deal of showmanship.  A terrific dunk and very entertaining. Watching  the 2009 dunk contest at this year’s All-Star [...]

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Pick and Rolls, and then, more Pick and Rolls

February 6, 2009

Okay, I am officially Pick and Rolled out.  After watching all these games, whether NBA, college or even high school, I am starting to see pick and rolls in my sleep.  It is a pick and roll epidemic out there. Up until a few years ago, I used to ask college coaches why they didn’t use pick and [...]

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Pat Summitt’s 1000 Wins!

February 6, 2009

Congratulations to Coach Pat Summit on winning her 1000 game last night.  When you stop to think about it, it really is a great accomplishment.  The most wins of any college coach, in men’s or women’s.  The only other coach to win over a 1000 games at one place is Jerry Sloan with the Utah [...]

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College Rebounding

January 27, 2009

Last week, I went to lunch with Swen Nater who was a teammate of mine when I was with the Virginia Squires.  For those of you who are not familiar with him, Swen went to college at UCLA and basically was the backup center, playing behind the great Bill Walton.  Although not playing much with UCLA, at 6-11 [...]

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