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Starting Five: What college hoops teams have disappointed?
Sporting News college basketball columnist Mike DeCourcy addresses five topics currently in his sport’s headlines. 1. We’re nearly one month in: Who has been the most disappointing team? DeCourcy: As I look through our preseason top 25, most of the teams we ranked either have performed well or acceptably, and those that have not have legitimate reasons. [...]
Continue reading...Spotlight game: No. 10 North Carolina at No. 5 Kentucky
Friday, December 4, 2009
Dan Blank
Much-anticipated John Wall has not disappointed Kentucky basketball fans.
Place: Rupp Arena, Lexington, Ky.
Time: 12:30 p.m. ET
TV: CBS
Three reasons Kentucky will win
John Wall. Even with the insane amount of hype that preceded Wall’s arrival in Lexington, the freshman point guard has done nothing to temper those expectations. Wall is averaging 18.5 points and [...]
Conference Call: West Coast Conference will be formidable
Monday, November 30, 2009
Each week, Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy ranks the top six college basketball conferences — and the best of the rest — and the teams within each league. Rankings are based on achievement.
Conf. rankings
No. 1 Big East
No. 2 Big 12
No. …
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Conference Call: UCLA falls toward Pac-10’s cellar
Monday, November 30, 2009
Each week, Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy ranks the top six college basketball conferences — and the best of the rest — and the teams within each league. Rankings are based on achievement.
Conf. rankings
No. 1 Big East
No. 2 Big 12
No. …
Read more from the original source
3-Pointers: Duke is plenty athletic
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Mike DeCourcy
Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy analyzes what Saturday’s buzz means to college basketball.
Miles Plumlee is exceedingly agile and makes Duke’s frontcourt formidable.
Flight patterns
At least two sportswriters covering the Duke-Connecticut final in the NIT Season Tip-Off wrote columns about the game regarding the perception that Duke is “unathletic” and posited that one reason this [...]
3-Pointers: Butler remains West Virginia’s main man
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy analyzes what Tuesday’s buzz means to college basketball.
Sunny Da’
Da’Sean Butler is averaging 26 points and seven rebounds per game this season.
If there were to be a chemistry problem at West Virginia, the logical catalyst figured to be senior forward Da’Sean Butler.
He was the Mountaineers’ reigning scoring champ but was expected [...]
Ohio State PG Evan Turner is making the transition look easy
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Mike DeCourcy
Evan Turner is averaging 19 points and 17 rebounds through two games.
Jim Matta got it half-right. He told his son it was a good thing all-Big Ten star Evan Turner was moved from forward to point guard, “or nobody would have anything to talk about,” Thad Matta said.
Well, there is football.
Ohio State fans [...]
College basketball teams get early chance to prove they belong among elite
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State proved it has the depth of a champion, and Gonzaga showed it’s not in any hurry to decline as the Spartans were forced to rally for a 75-71 victory Tuesday at the Breslin Center.
Here are four more games in the next week that’ll tell us more about how legitimate [...]
Starting Five: Isiah Thomas seeks out controversy
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sporting News’ college basketball columnist Mike DeCourcy addresses five topics currently in his sport’s headlines.
1. Is it possible for Isiah Thomas to avoid controversy?
DeCourcy: Look, the media are not making this stuff up. They are not even goading him into being controversial. Thomas signed up for the job as head coach at Florida International, which [...]
Wright looks like finished product for Dayton
Saturday, November 14, 2009
DAYTON, Ohio — Not even four minutes into his junior season, Dayton forward Chris Wright stuck a 3-point shot from the right corner that seemed to be worth a lot more than 3 points. It lingered as a declaration that all his summer work would justify the attention he had gained mostly for looking like [...]
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