NCAA Tournament Players To Watch: West Region
Granted, watching basketball all the time is part of my job, but it still amazes me how many people don’t (or rarely) watch college hoops until the NCAA Tournament. Because of such inexcusable ignoring...
View Article“Don’t beat around the bush: This is the Joakim Noah Show!”
On the same night when college basketball officially tipped off, Bulls/Nuggets had all the unpredictability and entertaining sloppiness of an NCAA game, with a slew of former college superstars...
View ArticleDwight Howard crushes injury-depleted Suns
Could you, with a straight face, make an argument that Robin Lopez is more valuable to the Phoenix Suns than Steve Nash? If you watched the Suns get dropped into the proverbial oubliette last night by...
View ArticleUConn Can Steal The Big East Tournament
When it comes to conference tournament play, some programs always seem to rise to the occasion. But without the right leader on the sideline and on the court, your team aura can only take you so far in...
View ArticleKemba Walker: “I Knew He Couldn’t Stick With Me”
It was an ending almost too corny for Hollywood. The hometown kid playing in his hometown arena against the No. 1 team in the conference with the ball in his hands in a tie game with six seconds left....
View ArticleBig East Tournament Superlatives
For years, I’ve said that the Big East Tournament makes up my five favorite days of the basketball year. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the NCAA tournament or the NBA Playoffs, but to me, it doesn’t get...
View ArticleAshton Gibbs & Pittsburgh Are Criminally Underrated
*College basketball is here (unlike the NBA), and this year might be one of the best in recent memory. The powerhouse is back, while the Cinderellas believe. That’s a deadly combination. We know some...
View ArticlePittsburgh Gets Thumped In An Upset; The Story Behind Karl Malone & His...
We’ve been waiting on an upset. Naturally this early in the season, you don’t expect it. Everyone is playing cupcakes, and conference schedules haven’t started yet. But where are the close games?...
View ArticleMonday Madness: Best & Worst of the College Basketball Weekend
The first month of the college hoops season has already had enough defining moments to warrant the Luther Vandross treatment. There was the poignant high of Coach K surpassing his mentor Bob Knight as...
View ArticleHumble & Hungry: Dime’s 2012 NBA Draft Diary With Dion Waiters, Week 2
After an outstanding sophomore season at Syracuse that had many analysts talking about him as one of the best guards in the country, Dion Waiters decided the time was right to test his talents and make...
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The NBA’s summer of $10M backups, plus T-Mac going to Utah?
David Lee (photo. New York Post) With the biggest of the big-name free agents quickly finding homes, the next phase is all about reactionary replacements. Example: The Blazers thought they had Hedo...
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Team USA’s 5 Breakout Stars
While guys are trying to make a name for themselves in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, the NBA’s next group of stars was busy ballin’ in New Zealand. In honor of Team USA’s U19 Gold Medal victory...
View ArticlePitt’s Ashton Gibbs Silences Providence At The Buzzer
This past summer, we had Pitt’s Ashton Gibbs as one of Team USA’s 5 Breakout Stars after their U19 Gold Medal victory in the FIBA World Championships. While he only played 10.8 minutes a game during...
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