The SEC is looking strong almost from top to bottom, with one team – Kentucky – being a legitimate National title contender.  There are qualities players at every position and every class, and some great coaching minds.  Even the teams that won’t compete for the conference title will not be easy games.  Part 1 (Click […]

The SEC is looking strong almost from top to bottom, with one team – Kentucky – being a legitimate National title contender.  There are qualities players at every position and every class, and some great coaching minds.  Even the teams that won’t compete for the conference title will not be easy games.  This preview will […]

The Pac-10 is now the Pac-12, with the addition of Utah and Colorado.  Arizona was the team to beat last season, and it looks like they may be it again, though UCLA, Cal, Washington, and a new look Oregon squad will all be in the hunt. The highlight of the season may be all of […]

The Big 12 (consisting of only 10 teams) should be an interesting, but odd, conference to watch this season.  Texas A&M is leaving for the SEC, Texas has 6 freshmen and not much else, Kansas is talented, but thin.  Not to mention, Fred Hoiberg and his band of merry transfers at Iowa State, the tempers […]

The Big 10 has shown a lot of improvement as a whole over the last few years, but it has been a consistent mix of Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin and Michigan State near the top.  They will all be there again, but it is clearly the Buckeyes’ conference to lose.  There will be plenty of […]

As has been the case in recent years, the ACC is once again a very top-heavy league, with 2 dominant teams (North Carolina and Duke), 6 teams all around .500 and 4 teams struggling.  The good news is that a slew of new coaches are starting to rejuvenate a lot of the programs which had […]

With NCAA rules allowing college basketball teams the opportunity to partake in international tours every 4 years, more and more programs are using this to not only get the opportunity to learn more about their players, but to give the players the opportunity to experience new cultures and people.  This summer alone, teams played in […]

It’s not often that anyone gets to discuss NBA prospects from St. Bonaventure, but they have not only a real prospect this season, but Andrew Nicholson can find himself in the first round of the 2012 NBA Draft.  Having spent many nights fighting double teams, Nicholson has developed great toughness and a willingness to lead […]

The NBA Draft Blog Scouting Report takes a look at a player with a lot of natural ability who can breakout in his senior year – Ohio State’s William Buford.  The Buckeyes have had a lot of talent during his time with the team, but now it’s his turn to be the leader.  David Lighty […]

The story is a familiar one to basketball fans.  Derek Smith, former Louisville and NBA star, and then an assistant coach for the Washington Bullets, was on a summer cruise with his wife, Monica, and two young children when he died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 34.  Derek’s 2 kids, Sydney and […]

The NBA Draft Blog Road to the 2012 Draft starts today with the beginning of this season’s Scouting Reports.  First up is a player who has shown flashes of great potential, but he never seems to be able to put all his talent together at one time – Duke’s Mason Plumlee.  The middle of Duke’s 3 […]

I am back with Part 2 of the 2010 NBA Draft review (Part 1 can be found here).  As you can see from going down the list, many teams did very well in what pundits wanted to coin a “weak” draft.  I think it is safe to say that almost all of the teams improved […]

The 2011 NBA Draft has come and gone and its time to take a look back at what each team did, give them a nice little grade to go with it, and try and make sense of some of these moves.  These grades are based solely on the players chose and where they were chosen. […]

Over the last few years, Northeastern, from the Colonial Athletic Conference, has produced some NBA players, most notably JJ Barea from this year’s NBA champions, the Dallas Mavericks.  Hoping to join this group, is one of the best defensive players, not only in the CAA, but also in the country, Chaisson Allen.  But there is […]

Over the last few years, not many players have provided as many electrifying, athletic moments as Dayton’s Chris Wright.  As we head towards tomorrow’s NBA Draft, Chris is a guy that many teams wanted to see for themselves and he had, by many reports, very good workouts.  An injury to his hand during a workout […]