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Sports Illustrated November 8, 2000 |
Ready for tipoff Our annual season-preview journeys for the mag are always a blast, and for all sorts of reasons. Arizona is king of my preseason college basketball top 20... |
Sports Illustrated October 12, 2000 |
Let the party begin Ten pressing questions entering the 2000-20001 season. That's right, hoopheads, it's our time of year again. Time to par-tay... |
Sports Illustrated January 24, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Let's give Stanford its due As a former (recovering?) East Coast basketball writer myself, I know there's a lot of ignorance about West Coast basketball. But some of the statements made about Stanford lately have been as unintentionally hilarious as Digger Phelps... |
Sports Illustrated December 11, 2000 Tim Crothers |
Chat Reel: SI's Tim Crothers Does Duke have what it takes to cut down the nets in April, without a strong backup for Carlos Boozer when he gets in foul trouble?... It's becoming clear that ACC teams play "softer" than teams from some of its rival conferences... etc. |
Sports Illustrated October 31, 2000 Seth Davis |
Big East should beware of Pirates After watching the Seton Hall squad in action, I can tell you they will have the Big East on the run this season... |
Sports Illustrated November 21, 2001 Grant Wahl |
What's going on in Maui? Let's wait until March before we call my preseason college basketball rankings a joke. |
Sports Illustrated January 3, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Return of the Magic Eight I present my second annual Magic Eight, the teams from which I absolutely, positively guarantee the national champion of men's college basketball will emerge... |
Sports Illustrated March 29, 2001 Seth Davis |
Grand finale Expect Arizona, Duke to survive the Final Four... |
Sports Illustrated February 27, 2001 Seth Davis |
A season in review Before we kick off the greatest month on the American sporting calendar, here's a quick look back at the best and worst of college basketball's regular season... |
Sports Illustrated November 29, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Early-season hits and misses I try telling people there's no such thing as a Sports Illustrated jinx, and then it happens again. Beginning with the 1999 national title game, I've now been on hand six of the last seven times the AP's top-ranked team has gone down... |
Sports Illustrated April 13, 2001 Seth Davis |
Duke, Florida waiting on early entries If Boozer, Brown, White and Williams are all playing college ball next season, look for Florida and Duke to be 1-2 in the preseason polls. If any or all of those guys bolt to the play-for-pays, those two schools will have to make do with what they have, which is still plenty... |
Sports Illustrated January 2, 2001 Seth Davis |
Season has had its casualties Coaching major-college basketball has never been the most stable profession, but this is an unusually perilous time to be prowling the sidelines. The season isn't half over and we've already seen an inordinate number of casualties... |
Sports Illustrated December 6, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Taking on the Dukies So I pick Duke to go to the Final Four, and what do I get? Angry, angry e-mails from the Blue Devils faithful... |
Sports Illustrated November 15, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Feeling the heat Basketball players, a dozen of them, none older than 15, stood circled around a rickety goal in a roadside park in Barbados. One by one, they took the ball, dribbled toward the hoop and dunked, some with such ferocity that the entire goal rattled for 10 seconds afterward... |
Sports Illustrated June 19, 2002 Seth Davis |
Dunleavy belongs in NBA With Mike Dunleavy's announced decision to stay in the NBA Draft, CNNSI.com chatted with Sports Illustrated college basketball writer Seth Davis about the impact Dunleavy might make in the NBA and what he leaves behind at Duke. |
Sports Illustrated October 10, 2002 Seth Davis |
Growing by leaps and bounds College Basketball preview: Expect these sophomores to assume more prominent roles. |
Sports Illustrated February 13, 2001 Seth Davis |
Senior leadership Glamorous freshmen bring publicity and street cred to a program, but if you want to win the big trophy, you need something more. You need seniority. Here, then, are 10 seniors who, for better or worse, will play pivotal roles over the next six weeks... |
Sports Central January 22, 2004 Eric Williams |
Good Things in Small Packages The re-emergence of the ACC can be traced directly to the depth of the guards in the conference. Georgia Tech, Duke, North Carolina, and Wake Forest, with their exciting freshman point guard Chris Paul, arguably make the ACC the toughest conference in America. |
Sports Illustrated November 15, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Some Top 20 surprises My annual preseason college hoops tour has come to a close, but not without some memorable moments... |
Sports Illustrated April 3, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Duke-Arizona Q&A Once again, Battier does the little things... |
Sports Illustrated June 24, 2002 Phil Taylor |
Just passing through Can college basketball hang on to any of its top talent? |
AskMen.com Jon Finkel |
Pickup Basketball Etiquette With the NCAA Basketball Championships tonight, we thought it'd be a good time to talk about pickup basketball. |
Sports Illustrated January 9, 2001 Seth Davis |
The NBA can keep Pitino There's nothing we can do. The robot is coming back. He will strike fear into the hearts of every secretary in his office, every underling in the athletic department, every assistant sports information director who makes the mistake of trying to do his job when he's in a bad, bad mood... |
Sports Illustrated January 10, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Yet another obstacle for Arizona You don't have to be an Arizona supporter to hope that, for the Wildcats' sake, they're able to simply play basketball for the rest of the season. I spent most of last week in Tucson, and from talking to the players and coaches, the past month has been excruciating... |
Sports Central December 22, 2004 William Geoghegan |
The Evolution of College Basketball Stumbling upon a dusty, ratty old magazine from October 1995 provides the enlightenment that recruiting isn't a sure thing. Even the supposed best of the best can fizzle. |
Sports Central March 26, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
The Real Sweet 16 Here is the Real Sweet 16: 16 reasons to watch the NBA stretch run over the round of 16. |
Sports Illustrated March 21, 2001 Alexander Wolff |
And then there were 16 Musings on the first week of NCAA tournament play |
Sports Illustrated November 27, 2000 B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions It has been a wild year in college football, and any one of the Top 25 teams could make a run at the title if a playoff existed. Since one doesn't, we already know only three teams have a chance to be crowned national champions. College basketball is another story, though... |
Sports Central August 11, 2005 Alan Rubenstein |
NBA Draft Changes NCAA Landscape Who enters their name into the NBA draft, who withdraws, and which players return or leave can have an impact on the college basketball landscape for the following two to three years. |
Sports Illustrated February 28, 2002 Seth Davis |
Prelude to Madness True hoopheads like us, of course, are thinking basketball all year long, but now that the greatest month of all is upon us, here are a few nuggets to ponder before the blessed Madness begins... |
Sports Illustrated February 8, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Ending the Jacobsen/Dunleavy debate They're both great players and I'm a moron for driving a wedge where there was no need for one... |
Sports Illustrated January 16, 2001 Seth Davis |
Eight Teams Out I feel compelled to submit my antipode to Grant Wahl's Second Annual Magic Eight, the list of teams from which he guarantees will emerge your 2001 national champion. Herewith, then, I present you with my very own compilation -- Eight Teams Out, teams I guarantee will not win the title... |
Sports Central January 28, 2015 Ross Lancaster |
How to Fix College Basketball There are some people who will tell you that complaints about the state of college basketball are nothing new. And to an extent, that's true. However, the sport has reached what has to be a tipping point. |
Sports Illustrated January 24, 2001 Seth Davis |
Special pre-Oscars edition We're going Hollywood this week, Hoopheads. In honor of the approaching Oscars -- and in light of the obvious fact that I am fresh out of ideas with two months still remaining in the season -- I hereby present this silver-screen edition of Hoop Thoughts... |
Salon.com June 20, 2000 Gary Kaufman |
I hate this game NBA basketball would be great if they'd just change a few things. Such as, just for starters: Everything. |
Sports Central April 2, 2012 Gary Flick |
Give Me Six! Due to the lockout, this shortened NBA season is already less than a month from being over. There have been a few surprises, but most of the season has been pretty predictable. |
Sports Central December 13, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
Why College Hoops is Better Than Pro Hoops Why is college basketball so much better than the NBA? Here are ten reasons to dribble and dunk on. |
Sports Central March 10, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Team USA Hoops: Gold or Bust If Team USA fails to win gold in 2008, it will not be because they repeated mistakes of years past. |
AskMen.com Phil Helm |
Top 10 NBA Colleges The schools listed here have proven that they are the masters at creating NBA players. Read on for the line-up. |
Sports Central February 9, 2011 Matt Thomas |
Individuals Who Have Shaped College Hoops Beyond topical changes to the game, some individuals have been so dominant that they themselves necessitated rules changes that still impact the college and pro games alike. |
Sports Illustrated March 27, 2002 Rick Reilly |
Missing Persons March Madness winds up this week after a month of showcasing about half of the best college-age players. The other half are holding down folding chairs in the NBA and trying to remember if they're in Cleveland or Memphis... |