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College basketball

Two interesting hoop notes

July 17, 2008

ESPN.com's Andy Katz has an interesting story about LeBron James and what he has meant to the University of Akron basketball program. One paragraph caught my attention and it had nothing to do with LeBron.
Dambrot is entering his fifth season as head coach after serving as an assistant for three seasons under Dan Hipsher. Scheduling [...]

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I was wrong, but …

April 8, 2008

John Calipari's Memphis team fell apart at the end, by not making their free throws, and Kansas is the best team this season. I still like Calipari as a coach, but Bill Self won the battle last night.
I do have a problem with the end of basketball games. We generally watch 38 minutes of good [...]

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Can't believe this …

April 7, 2008

Here are some things that I find interesting:
– Why does Memphis coach John Calipari get no credit for being a good basketball coach? I know that he can recruit, that he took UMass to the Final Four and that his teams have never gone on probabtion. I know that he struggled in the NBA, but [...]

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Absolute madness

March 22, 2008

It just took one round of the NCAA Tournament for this march to madness to take the turn for the better for two teams.
UCLA and Kansas have the road set up to the Elite Eight. Neither team will face a team better than an eighth seed in the next two rounds.
Upset City: Tampa, Fla., had [...]

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Point in time

May 3, 2007

College basketball took the first step forward (or should I say backward) in moving the 3-point line Thursday.
Here is the AP story info: Two decades after adding the 3-point line, the NCAA men's basketball rules committee approved a measure Thursday that will move the line back one foot ` from 19 feet, 9 inches to [...]

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