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Lance Stephenson will play for Cincinnati right away
This offseason, plenty of major schools passed on Cincinnati guard Lance Stephenson, the leading scorer in New York City history. They passed for several reasons, including Stephenson's role in a documentary while in high school, his reportedly abrasive father, his apparent attitude issues, and ...
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Thanks to Marcus Jordan, did Nike just steal UCF from Adidas?
By now, we're all familiar with Michael Jordan's son Marcus, and Marcus's shoe-related issues at UCF . According to Jordan, UCF told him during his recruitment that he'd be allowed to wear his father's Air Jordan brand. The only problem: UCF is an adidas school, and adidas schools only wear ...
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The Hunt: No. 35, Creighton
The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here . Last year's record: 27-8 (14-4 MVC) 2009-2010's toughest games: at Dayton, at Michigan, at New Mexico, at George Mason Primary attraction: ...
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The Isiah Thomas era begins with a whimper
Barring some sort of cataclysmic error (or, say, another sexual harassment suit) Isiah Thomas deserves what every other new college coach deserves: plenty of time to build his program, and a touch of deference until that "plenty of time" line has come and gone. Still, if Zeke's debut ...
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The Hunt: No. 38, Gonzaga
The Hunt: No. 38, Gonzaga
rivals.yahoo.com — The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here . Last year's record: 28-6 (14-0, WCC) 2009-2010's toughest games: at Michigan State, vs. Wake ... (more) The Hunt: No. 38, Gonzaga
The Hunt: No. 48, Gonzaga
The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here . Last year's record: 28-6 (14-0, WCC) 2009-2010's toughest games: at Michigan State, vs. Wake Forest, at Duke, vs. Oklahoma, Maui Invitational ...
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The Hunt: No. 39, Notre Dame
The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here . Last year's record : 21-15, 8-10 Big East 2009-10's toughest games : at UConn, at Villanova, at Louisville, at Georgetown Primary attraction ...
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Is Renardo Sidney's clearance getting closer?
Renardo Sidney and his lawyer, Don Jackson, have been battling with the NCAA over information requests for months now. On one side is Jackson, who believes the NCAA is playing the race card when it asks the Sidney family to prove how they lived in a nice place in Southern California with no ...
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The Hunt: No. 40, Northern Iowa
The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here . Last year's record: 23-11 (14-4 Missouri Valley) 2009-2010's toughest games: vs. Iowa, vs. Siena Primary attraction: Can Northern Iowa make it ...
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Tim Floyd, casino peace enforcer
Tim Floyd currently has a lot of free time. How does he spend it? Apparentl by roaming the land, seeking out catfights at casinos, and promptly mediating the situations: Look at Coach Floyd! He just slowly wades into the morass, oblivious, unflinching, scared of nothing -- not even a ...
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The Hunt: No. 41, Vanderbilt
The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here . Last year's record : 19-12, 8-8 SEC 2009-10's toughest games : at Kentucky, at Tennessee, at Illinois, Mississippi State Primary attraction : Kevin ...
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Al McGuire was right: Players improve most after first year
Such is the conclusion from Big Ten Geeks (hat tip: Beyond The Arc ), who set out to test Al McGuire's famous hypothesis that "the best thing about freshman is that they become sophomores." The Geeks decided to test the differences in statistical output (using tempo-free ...
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Meet your 2009-10 preseason All-Americans
Meet your 2009-10 preseason All-Americans
rivals.yahoo.com — Same as your 2008-09 preseason All-Americans. OK, not quite. There's no Ty Lawson or Tyler Hansbrough anywhere to be found. But there is a batch of players we are all by now quite familiar with, several of whom seem like they've been around ... (more) Meet your 2009-10 preseason All-Americans
The Hunt: No. 42, Clemson
The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here . Last year's record: 23-9 (9-7 ACC) 2009-2010's toughest games: vs. Illinois, vs. South Carolina Primary attraction: Oliver Purnell has gotten ...
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Note to Texas fans: Your team is awesome, so act excited
There are plenty of college hoops fan bases in this here United States of A. that would kill to have the talent that's currently, probably even as you read this, getting the practice whistle treatment from Rick Barnes in Austin, Tex. Texas has the second-best recruiting class on the way, in ...
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The Hunt: No. 43, Davidson
The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here . Today, No. 43, Davidson. Last year's record : 27-8 overall, 18-2 SoCon 2009-10's toughest games : at Butler, at Citadel, at Gonzaga, at UMass  ...
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Purdue AD throws a little trash talk Indiana's way
Purdue AD throws a little trash talk Indiana's way
rivals.yahoo.com — Indiana has 20 all-time Big Ten conference titles. Purdue has 21. And in case you weren't familiar with this fact (I had to look it up in an encyclopedia just now), Purdue athletic director Morgan Burke would like to remind you. Discussing Purdue's ... (more) Purdue AD throws a little trash talk Indiana's way
What We Missed: John Wall to sit two games
Long weekend out there, eh? Halloween -- the decorating, the partying, the passing of candy -- is a major distraction from the college hoops world; you can go an entire weekend without visiting Kenpom once. It's horrible! Which is why we ought to play catch-up for a few minutes here. Here's ...
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Hey, at least the NCAA's trying
The 2009 offseason will be memorable for many things: John Calipari, Rick Pitino, Derrick Rose, Renardo Sidney. But more than anything, this felt like the offseason where all the little recruiting tricks coaches and agents and AAU reps had been accumulating over the years finally got exposed in ...
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Bob Knight places a very special phone call
This seemed a bit of a formality, given the fact that Bob Knight told IU to take that lawsuit-settling alumni money and shove it , but I suppose formalities have to be handled formally. And so it is that Bob Knight officially called IU athletic director Fred Glass yesterday and told him he ...
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