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Twenty-two teams. Only Cali has more. New York
is not a state that can be easily summed
up, basketball-wise, or any-other-wise. We have more 20-win programs than any state up to this point, but also a massive pile of also-rans and full-on stinkers. ...
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Sunshine, palm trees, South Beach, Tim Tebow. Yes, we get it. There are tons of other things to do it in Florida other than follow college basketball. But while the 07-08 season may not have been the best for America's Wang, the state has plenty of college hoop prestige to go around. First off, there is the two-time NCAA Champion Florida Gators. Despite being the second most important team ...
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Florida Gators
Few states could show you less than Missouri did in 2008. Of the five D-I programs in the Show Me State, only Missouri State and Saint Louis managed winning percentages above .500 in 2008. Mizzou, probably the most recognizable team, had some big wins last year (Texas, Kansas State, Purdue). But things have seemed to be in a constant state of rebuilding since the feared Tiger teams of ...
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Missouri Tigers
Missouri State Bears
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Oregon is one of those states that fails
to make an impression on basketball fans who don't
live there. Most casual fans can't tell their Ducks from their Beavers, and almost nobody knows anything about Portland and Portland State. This past season, Oregon was decent but not great in a merciless Pac-10. Oregon State fell off a damn cliff, and nobody knows when we'll see them again, though ...
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Honestly, I'm fully aware that Craig Robinson has
a monumental task ahead of him in turning around
the perennially horrible Oregon State program, but I will be unabashed in rooting for him and Beavers next season. Any man that can find time to drop a "Go Beavers" moments before introducing his sister into her critical, campaign changing keynote address and bring college hoops into the ...
#31 Illinois Although Barack Obama may have already received the STF seal of approval for president of college hoops, his home state has not kept up its end of the bargain. Simply put, the state of Illinois sucked for college hoops in 2008. Zero conference champions, zero NCAA Tournament teams and only three teams above .500 is New Jersey- esque . That said, it’s not as if Illinois is ...
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Illinois State Redbirds
#32 Louisiana We'll be damned if we don't like Louisiana. Half of the schools on our list are still recovering from the damage done by Hurricane Katrina, so we give them full props for even keeping teams on the court. Now, that said, we feel like LSU is poking the basketball gods with a very sharp stick, daring them to strike down the purple and gold. Firing John Brady just two years ...
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LSU Fightin' Tigers
Bo McCalebb
#33 South Carolina This state kind of introduces a truism that will pervade the State Project. The more DI schools a state has, the more likely that state is to drop in the rankings. We think about the one or two schools that triumphed, but tend to forget about the eight schools that were mediocre to lousy. For the Palmetto State, this held true. The recent addition of SC Upstate and ...
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#34 Georgia If Ray Charles and Gladys Knight (and the Pips) are to be believed, Georgia is where it's at. And the two marquee programs have had their days in the sun. The State Project, however, rewards only the standings of the past year. Oddly enough, the state's only 20-win program, Georgia State, didn't make the dance. Georgia did make the dance, through an absolutely insane run ...
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Georgia Bulldogs
Georgia State Panthers
#35 Colorado I was born in Colorado. I met my wife there. It's a wonderful place. That said, thank god my parents moved to eastern Kansas when I was a kid, because I might never have become a college hoops fan watching the teams this state produces. Just roll these team nicknames around in your head and really think about the history of it all. Falcons. Buffs. Rams. Pioneers. Bears. A ...
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Colorado State Rams
#36 New Jersey True story: a late December game between Princeton and Monmouth was the inspiration for this entire project. Because somehow, after watching quite possibly slowest moving collegiate basketball game of my lifetime, I knew that Jersey had to be close to the worst state for college hoops in America. Turns out that I was correct. So yeah, the home of Tony Soprano, The Boss ...
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In my two years roaming the blogsphere, I’ve learned a thing or two about what works and what doesn’t work. One of the sure-fire bets for instant interest in a post, outside of just firing up a random assortment Erin Andrews or Jenn Sterger pictures, are lists, lists and more lists. Seriously, people are damn obsessed with ranking things. Best all-time teams, best conferences, best mascots, ...
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So, as the U.S. Olympic Basketball team prepares
to go up against Greece at 7pm on Thursday,
we feel it is our duty to remind our readers that this man awaits: He is Greek "Centre" Sofos Schortsanitis , and he runs about 156 kilograms, which sounds like a ridiculously low number, so let's go back to 'merican weights and measures: he's 344 lbs at bare minimum. I know I'm not the only one who ...
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Courtesy of my fellow C'villain Stormy comes this
tricky test: the NCAA recruiting exam. Take the Test
It's a timed, multiple choice/true-false test with an 80% grade required for passing. It really highlights just how byzantine the whole process ...
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In this summer's latest installment of The Smoking Gun:College Hoops Edition , I’m going to go ahead and guess that this isn’t the kind of high profile story that the MAC was hoping for as they try to raise the league profile in the college hoops universe. Proving that basketball point-shaving scandals can happen outside of the NBA , former University of Toledo basketball player Sammy ...
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Toledo Rockets
Michigan Wolverines
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Before there was a Dream Team, the United
States sent college basketball players to take on the
world in the Olympic games. Since our all-pro teams haven't really lived up to the hype recently, Marco and I set about the task of building an imaginary ...
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College basketball programs are known for taking a
painstakingly long time to release their complete schedules. In
some cases, it can be mid-September before we see every schedules finalized. Totally different world from college football, where many ...
Not all of the dynamite freshmen of 2007-2008 went pro. Blake Griffin, who joined the Oklahoma Sooners hot on the heels of his older brother Taylor, suffered an injury-plagued season that put a damper on his coming out party. His toughness in battling through at less than 100% was impressive, however, as he managed 33 games and averaged 14 ppg and 9 rpg. I'm going to go out on a limb and ...
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Blake Griffin
Oklahoma Sooners
Just wanted to send a quick shoutout to roving STF mad scientist Mike White, who is displaying his love for all things Carolina over at EDSBS. His post on the helmeted version of the Tar Heels is racking up the comments. Go over and join in the fun. Guest Lecturer Series: North Carolina Tar Heels You can rent him for a while, Spencer, but we need him back come basketball season. If only ...
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STF State Project: #27 New York