Countdown to CBB Season: No. 22 USC

Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:31:14 +1900

Southern California basketball will dance to a different beat literally and figuratively during the madness in March. Controversial star O.J. Mayo is out. Fabulous freshman DeMar DeRozan is in. Also in is Master P.'s son Romeo Miller, otherwise known as Lil' Romeo. Miller will probably have the biggest impact of any recruit in the history of the game for a player who might not play a single meaningful minute. Rivals considers Miller only a two star recruit, but offering a scholarship to Miller helped lure top five recruit DeRozan to the school. Miller and DeRozan are good friends and according to The Wall Street Journal , committed to USC together while driving with Romeo's father, Percy, after a tournament in Arkansas when Coach Tim Floyd offered both a scholarship. While Miller probably won't contribute much if anything this season, DeRozan could easily have the biggest impact of any of the standout freshmen this year. He's a 6'6'' swingman who's going to be on the floor to score. The ...

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If You Ain’t Cheatin’, You Ain’t Tryin’…

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:08:55 +1900

Seems Sir Charles was right after all. Somehow, this wonderfully crafted piece by Dan Wetzel at YahooSports got past us for nearly a week before we found it. Wetzel essentially fires a Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US shot across the bow of the Good Ship NCAA, led by Capt. Myles Brand, for its notably lax invisible investigation and enforcement of NCAA rules among its two revenue cash cow sports, football and basketball. Doing some solid investigative work himself, Wetzel concludes that it’s been nearly two years since a major college basketball program was hit with a significant violation ( Kansas with Ol’ Roy’s largesse in Oct 2006 ), which is the longest such drought in almost a half-century. Similarly, it’s been fifteen clean months in college football since the last major violation ( Oklahoma in July 2007 ). So the reasonable conclusion here is that the NCAA has ...

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Countdown to CBB Season: No. 22 USC

If You Ain’t Cheatin’, You Ain’t Tryin’…