OJ Mayo mania, a sneak preview

OJ Mayo mania hits DeCourcy's blog.

Monty returns to Stanford, as an assistant to the AD. Monty being Mike Montgomerry, former NBA coach, TV analyst and Stanford basketball coach of 1800 years.

One blog that you should visit and bookmark is the Zags blog. No, it has nothing to with Gonzaga). Lots of recruiting coverage there as well. And if you want Gonzaga Zags coverage, check La Rev

An early preview of the 2007-2008 Villanova team at College Hoops Heaven. Look out in the Big East as the four-guard line-up may resurface at both Villanova and Marquette.

The CHN Top 144 previews continue with Duquesne, Miami of Florida and Southern Miss.

The Rivals Top 64 previews continue as well, with Southern Miss and Wisconsin. It looks like more and more people are picking Larry Eustachy for a good season. Will he deliver or drink it all way? (that was a no-spin zone zinger)

A Sea of Blue spotlights NYC guard Ramel Bradley. More Kentucky basketball coverage at the The WildCats blog and The Wildcats Thunder

Former Maryland space-eater gets in legal troubles with gun shipments. What? Tired of all the bad news involving athletes? Then visit and bookmark Good News in Sports

Don't look now but the College Hoops Preview magazines are already being published! Lindy's is usually the first out of the gate. Their website lists 21 different covers for the 2007-2008 season

The CAA Hoops wordpress blog informs us that the Cinderella book by M. Litos will be printed in paperback early next year. But if you can't wait until then, you can buy the hardcover right now (Amazon, $16). The book chronicled the 2005-2006 magical mystery tour of the CAA, highlighted by George Mason's dream run to the Final Four. The formal title is Inside the Rise of Mid-Major Basketball.

Speaking of books, for $5 you can get Lute Olson's book, or The Miracle of Saint Anthony's, and for $7 you can get Dean Smith's The Carolina Way. More details here!. I call this the BBB shopping strategy. Buy Buy Buy. Which brings us to...

AASAA: If your 2007 version of Beatle-mania is the Vance Walberg AASAA offense, this blog is for you. AASAA stands for Attack, Attack, Skip (pass), Attack, Attack. As opposed to pass, pass, pass, wait for shotclock to go under 15, pass, pass, pass then shoot a wild three. This I call the ZZZZZ offense :)

Goodman talks about Ron Steele and Duquense.

Dick Hoops Weiss thinks Seton Hall may have found their next assistant coach who was an NBA scout/instructor last season. He also says that Calhoun will go to a junior college (not _that_ Calhoun), and a new summer job for Mo Hicks of Rice.

Recruiting mumblings at Recruiting Wars

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

And a quite note for the college football fans reading this, The Sports Flow blog prepares you for the start of the college pigskin season.

OJ Mayo Mania and impromptu 2007-08 season preview

Goodman reports on OJ Mayo practicising for a career in politics (he says he plans to return to USC next year unless he is a lottery pick etc etc). The new Arkansas coach (not Stan Heath, but John Pelphrey) is spotlighted. Also a few updates on recent non-qualifiers.

More on OJ Mayo in this AP story by Beth Harris. The obligatory reference to the other OJ was made (in case you were wondering)

DeCourcy's Inside Dish is back with Washington's magical mystery tour, a former NCState hoopster in the MLB and Odom's loss is MVC's gain. Also DeCourcy's blog is back (or it has a new url, or both)

Dick Hoops Weiss reports on the Big East buzz coming from the "internets": Pitino drama wth Gonzo? he asks. Or perhaps Pitino is simply trying to protect his former assistant Kevin Willard who has just taken over Iona. It's a lot easier for Gonzo as a Seton Hall head coach in the Big East and as a CSTV analyst to hire a new assistant, than Willard to get one as a first year head at Iona, in the tall and wide shadow of Jeff Ruland.

Coverage of Eddie Griffin's funeral at College Hoops Heaven. And they noticed that I wrote about them :-)

Latest recruting updates at Recruting Wars


Impromptu 2007-2008 Preview special

All you can eat season previews at CHN's Top 144 continuing with Miami (of Florida), Southern "Party Coach" Miss, Western Kentucky, Auburn and Saint Mary's.

Not quite 144 teams, but Rivals has a Top 64 team preview feature. They are currently at #44 with Theus-less New Mexico State, followed by Illinois (off-court troubles), Nebraska, and George Mason a spot ahead of Maryland (???). A nice preview job by Rivals, their previews are compact, concise, to the topic, printer friendly, and they avoid excessive use of multimedia, flash and other hogware! Well done!

Continuing with the preview theme, a detailed look at Kentucky's 2007-2008 roster at ASoB

DeCourcy looks at Indiana with Eric Gordon on its roster. Will Kelvin Sampson be forced to play some offense?

DeCourcy also looks as Duke's schedule and thinks it prepares them for March (Sadness! hehe). Thank VCU, thank you :-)

DeCourcy's also looks at Northern Iowa's international tour moonlighting as Team USA. Will the experimental triangle offense stick?

Recap and recount the coaching changes of the off-season at CBS Sportsline, which appears to be on vacation at the moment (no new updates)

And if you want more previews, be sure to visit and bookmark our gigantic 2007-2008 preview via links!. If you have a blog or website on this topic and want it added to the list, just leave a comment or send an email!

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Book Bargains: The Carolina Way and the Miracle of Saint Anthony!

As the NBA campaign says, Reading is FUNdaMENTAL! Two books of great interest to college basketball fans are among the best selling bargain books at Amazon: The Carolina Way Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching by Dean Smith and two co-authors, a bargain price hardcover at just $6. The second bargain book of interest is the Miracle of St Anthony's, A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty, a bargain priced paperback at $5. (Free shipping with orders $25 or more).

Today's OTL centerpiece: Nolan Richardson

If you watched last night's FIBA Americas game on ESPN2, Nolan Richardson managed to give Coach K's squad a bigger headache than anticipated. Outside the Lines has a centerpiece feature on him, with Andy Katz. Visit the OTL Page for more details and a preview. OTL airs at 3pm eastern / noon pacific on ESPN!

If you want to know what they'll be featuring each day, you can subscribe to the OTL email list. From today's email, here is a description of this promising-to-be-interesting piece:

Centerpiece: LEADER IN EXILE
As the U.S. steamrolls its opponents in the FIBA Americas Championships, Mexico has performed best in defeat, scoring 100 points and staying close for a half last night. A familiar figure, Nolan Richardson, is back on the sidelines as the pro bono coach of the Mexican national team. Richardson, who led Arkansas to three Final Four appearances and a 1994 national championship, lost his job after the 2002 season. His fiery and outspoken style, once among his biggest selling points, became viewed more as liability than asset. Having grown up in the only black family among the Mexican-American homes in El Paso, Texas, Richardson cherishes the memories and Mexican culture. Now, as Andy Katz reports, Richardson's influence on his new team is evident in its attitude and work ethic.

Monday Night Hoops (the FIBA America tourney continues!)

For more on the FIBA Americas TV schedule and webcast check the post right below this one!

The Big Ten Network is just five days away from launching! Launch date is Saturday August 30, 2007. Check their website for details and coverage and find out how to "bang your monkey" in order to get BTN on your cable/satellite system. (No, that phrase is not what you may think!)

Recruiting stuff at Recruiting Wars

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!


New News

A round-up of news in the Rivals Notebook by Skwara & McClellan. Topics include: Dennis Felton, scheduling, Stephen Curry (Davidson's scoring machine), Memphis, Kansas, the Traveling Zags, and more!

Another round-up of news at A Sea of Blue!. There we learn that the Kentucky vs North Carolina made for TV series may continue at least into the 2009-10.

Lots of interesting tidbits by Dick Hoops Weiss's blog including updates from the Boost Elite 24 classic at Rucker Park, and Tom Pecora organizing a CvC golf outing. (CvC = Coaches versus Cancer)

This one is from a couple of weeks ago, but they talk about Dino Gaudio taking over Wake Forest afer the tragic loss of Skip Prosser

The WildCat Blog is turning the tables on the basketball bloggers and turns them into the subject of the discussion!

On the previewing front, the 144 CHN previews continue with St Mary's, Winthrop and Wyoming

What happened to the Sporting News website?

Great news for Gary Parrish "fans": He is gone until early September

The Rivals Top 64 previews continue with Nebraska (now under the Bill Self Godfather tree), and George MASON

Speaking of which, the CAA Hoops blog comments on the Rivals preview. And so does the George Mason Basketball blog.

Goodman's blog talks about the Labor Day Magical Mystery Tours of some teams, the trouble with tribbles academic eligibility, a six-pack at Portland including a former NBA big man's kid, Gavin Grants promise of no more than four losses (they will play 28+ games) and more

And we end with some trivia from Yahoo Answers: Which three teams made a 3-pointer in every game they played? (since the 3-point shot came to be in college). No source is cited, so this may be a case of "wikiality"


Discover New Basketball Blogs

A great new college hoops blog has stormed out of the gate! College Hoops Heaven covers Big 5 and beyond. The author also compiles a list of his stories of interest from this summer.

Real Recruits is new grass-roots level basketball blog! Their stories include Renaldo Sidney (now of SoCal), an article by Rod Harrington of USA Today, an in-depth interview with Boo Williams and lots more.

TV guide August 27 - September 10

Do read this! All times pacific, for live games add +3 for eastern, adjust for other time zones... Listings can change at any time, please double check with your local provider prior to airtime... I am boycotting ESPNU tv listings until Comcast and ESPN reach a compromise and make ESPNU available to their millions of customers

The Big Ten Network goes live on August 30, 2007 with Big 10 college football action! Details at the Big Ten Network website. There you will find that 36 of their 39 college football games will be in high definition. Dave Revsine (of ESPN fame) will be the studio anchor/host, with FSN's Charles Davies and Thom (pronounced Tom, but looks fancier on papier) Brennaman doing the games.

High school and recruiting-related tv coverage at Recruiting Wars. No games, just reruns of Future Phenoms this week.

Almost every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


College Basketball Game Repeats

Fri Sept 7, at 7pm, 1966 NCAA Tournament Championship, Texas Western vs Kentucky, one hour edit, at ESPN Classic

Fri Sept 7, at 8pm, 2006 NCAA Tournament Championship, Illinois vs North Carolina, one hour edit, at ESPN Classic

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


FIBA Americas Championship LIVE from Las Vegas!

all times pacific, check local listings for details

The games are also available at live webcasts online at ESPN360

Mon Aug 27: Second round action begins, with Team USA playing on ESPN2 at 8pm pacific, and NBA-TV with FSN showing other games

Tue Aug 28: More second round games, with Team USA on ESPN2 at 8pm, and FSN/NBATV showing the other games

Wedn Aug 29: Second round games - coverage same as above, with TeamUSA at 8pm on ESPN2. If you miss the games, they will repeat later on on NBA-TV

Thur Aug 30: The second round concludes today, with Team USA playing at 9pm on ESPN2, and FSN and NBA-TV covering the other teams, along with repeats

Fri Aug 31: Rest Day! ESPN Classic and NBATV plan to show a couple of rebroadcasts

Sat Sept 1: The Semifinals!. These are THE BIG GAMES of the tourney. The winners of the two semifinals automagically qualify for the 2008 Olympics. The games will air at 4pm and 6pm (or so) on ESPN Classic. If you miss them, both semifinals will repeat starting at 8pm on NBA-TV, while the Team USA game will repeat at 1030pm on ESPN2.

Sun Sept 2: The Bronze metal game (3rd place) will air at 1pm on NBA-TV, and the Gold metal game at 4pm on FSN and NBA-TV. They will repeat on NBA-TV and FSN. These games are for pride only, they have no impact on the Olympics standings. The two teams playing for the gold metal have already qualified for the Olympics, while the teams playing for the bronze metal have already qualified for the pre-Olympic qualification tournament in July 2008 (teams #3,#4, and #5 from FIBA Americas qualify for that).


Documentaries and more

Tue Aug 28, GLORY ROAD, on Encore. Repeats a few more times during the week on either Encore or Starz Blackz: Wedn Aug 29, Fri Aug 31, Mon Sept 3 (Labor Day), Wedn Sept 5 and Sat Sept 8. Check your local listings for exact airtime and channel availability.

Tue Aug 28, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Tue Aug 28, Howard Stern: Naked Basketball, In-Demand Pay Per View. Oops! Why is this even listed here?

Wedn Aug 29, at 9pm: 2002 Hall of Fame enchrinement, repeat, on NBA-TV. Featuring: Lute Olson, Kay Yow, Larry Brown, Magic Johnson, Harlem Globetrotters and Drazen Petrovic.

Thur Aug 30 at 10pm: Books and Basketball: Bill Bradley, NBA-TV.

Sat Sept 1, 4pm, Under the Lights featuring Bruce Pearl (repeat), Fox College Sports

Tue Sept 4, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Fri Sept 7, 430pm, 2007 Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, from Springfield, Mass, the home of the basketball hall of fame, on ESPN Classic. The event will likely air on NBA-TV as well, but it is not the listings yet.

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd



NBA Summer League

NBATV and webcast schedule at NBA.com for the whole month of July 2007


Movies Movies Movies

The TV series "White Shadow" has some repeats on NBA-TV

The movie Glory Road (the story of the 1966 Texas Western with head coach Don Haskins) repeats multiple times on the Starz family of channels and now on Encore.

Other movies on rotation: Basketball Diaries on Sundance, Hoosiers on AMC, He got Game on Starz Black, Harvard Man on Showtime and TMC family of channels, Slam Dunk Ernest on Starz, Rebound (2005) on HBO, The Sixth Man on Starz and Encore, Air Bud on the Animal Planet, Blue Chips on CineMax, The Year of the Yao at the Sundance Channel

The series Arliss is repeating on ESPN Classic. Some episodes are basketball related.

please check with local listings for airtimes of the movies


Directly from the Source

Listings for FSN and Fox College Sports (FCS) (actually all Fox related channels, including Soccer, Espagnol, Speed, but those dont usually show basketball games).

Some of the basketball games, documentaries and movies mentioned in the listings are available on DVD! You can purchase them from Amazon.com via the affiliate link here or the Amazon logos in the blog.

Great new resource: The Vance Walberg Nation

A brand new website has been created as a great basketball resource for coaches and fans of the Vance Walberg AASAA offense. The AASAA offense has created a big stir in college basketball ever since John Calipari of Memphis decided to absorb it. Here is the Vance Walberg Nation. The website has information on upcoming clinics where Coach Vance Walberg of Pepperdine will be discussing his offense. Other great resources on the website: Calipari showing AASAA plays (video), a directory of basketball coaches running the AASAA or a similar offense is being created, and more coming up every day.

Speaking of AASAA, one of these days I am going to try to go through a couple of Memphis games and see what I can reverse engineer - but I'm not trained in this so please don't expect much :)

Andy Rautins is out for the new season (2007-2008)

New commitments at Florida, Alabama, Arizona, New Mexico and more at Recruiting Wars

Part II of their NCAA shooting analysis has been posted at A Sea of Blue

Andy Rautins is sadly out for the 2007-2008 season after injuring his knee during the FIBA Americas championship tournament in Vegas

Goodman looks at the 2007-2008 Illinois and their losses (in recruiting and elsewhere)

Providence and VCU (the Duke Slayers) are featured in this blog update from Goodman

CBS Sportsline top stories include: Ron Steele's 2nd surgery, the loss of 84 year old coach van Breda Koff, and David McClure missing 6-8 weeks. Also it's almost a year since the tragic shootings at Duquesne, and Ricky Stokes won't take an admin position at East Carolina. All this from CBS Sportsline. Also there Jamar Smith's DUI and a report on Illinois

Speaking of reports, CHN continues their 144 previews with St Mary's, Wyoming, Winthrop, Central Michigan, Siena and Fordham

Huggins team at Cincinatti West Virginia is at #49 in Rivals Top 64 2007-2008 teams.

Bob McClellan at Rivals breaks down the ACC schedule. As expected Coach K avoids the road while Carolina has two TV road games at Ohio State (the battle of the freshmen in 2006-2007) and at new Kentucky.

DeCourcy breaks down Duke's schedule, which opens with Barton College (NCAA DII champs) on November 3

John Clay's Sidelines Report has an update on how Billy Gillispie is doing at Kentucky

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

FIBA Americas Basketball Tournament has just began! (ouch for Andy Rautins)

The FIBA Americas Basketball Tournament has just began! Coverage on NBA-TV, FSN and the ESPN family of networks. Team USA will be featured on the ESPN Family of Networks.

The Panama team features former George Washington wing JR Danilo Pinnock, former Virginia wing Gary Forbes and former Wake Forest and Skip Prosser versatile forward Jamaal Levy. Former Arkansas head coach Nolan Richardson is now coaching Mexico (used to be Panama's head coach). Uruguay features former Majerus disgrantlee Martin Osimani (he transferred to Duquesne). The first game has just gone into overtime, Uruguay just missed a last second tip-in on an out-of-bounds play!

A preliminary tv schedule for the FIBA America's games is posted in the weekly tv guide post of this blog.

Update: Syracuse guard Andy Rautins playing for his dad for Team Canada just went down with a nasty injury :( NBA-TV analyst (former Dookie) Alaa Abnelnaby said he heard it "pop" and hoped for the best. He left the court and headed to the locker room... Also playing for Team Canada is former Pitt forward Levon Kendall and UConn scorer Denham Brown. Leonardo Barbosa of the Phoenix Suns leads Team Brazil.

Update #2: Team USA was pitching a 9-0 shutout after the first media time-out against Venezuela. Isn't it nice to have Jason Kidd as a coach on the floor point guard and a scoring machine like Kobe? The other bonus of having a coach on the floor is that he overrule Coach K (and that's a good thing!) :)

Big Brother, Shooters, AASAA, Festus (not from Gunsmoke) and more

Featured Story on the AASAA offense: DeCourcy talks how the offense is a recruiting tool for Vance Walberg at Pepperdine. It's not just the waves and the beautiful campus and SoCal anymore. It's all about the AASAA! As we mentioned before, Pepperdine still does not have the right personnel to run this offense as it was designed (expect that to change in 2008-2009). For now, Walberg's biggest recruiting tool is the success of Calipari's AASAA offense. DeCourcy has the history of how Walberg and Calipari met, and how Calipari absorbed the AASAA offense. And if you want a first-hand account of the AASAA offense, call your travel agent and book the weekend clinic on it offered by those two, at the Grand Casino Resort in Tunica, Miss.

New commitments today for Missouri (again), Vanderbilt, Rhode Island and more.

Historic analysis of two point and three point shooting percentages in the NCAA at A Sea f Blue (must read!). The three point line will be moving back in the 2008-2009 season, so it will be interesting to see how it plays out: more bad three point shots, or coaches reigning in on bad shooters and only letting the good shotters shoot 3s?

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Big Brother (Myles Brand) talks about university presidents, athletics and academics. Translation: We are academic institutions but don't touch our profits from athletics!

Goodman reports on Vandy and Auburn's trip to Cancun

Rivals Top 64 previews continue today with the Duke Slayers (aka Virginia Commonwealth University Rams). Go VCU go! You are my new favorite CAA team :)

More at CHN's Top 144 2007-2008 season previews as well with Winthrop, Central Michigan and Siena

Goodman reports on Vandy and Auburn's trip to Cancun

Duquesne is practicing ahead of time, in preparation for their labor day weekend tour in Canadia

Monday Night Hoops (without Madden)

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Check our weekly tv schedule in the post below. Don't forget the FIBA Americas Championship with Coach K and Jim Boeheim coaching Team USA.

The Goodman blog reads like a trouble report: Calhoun is leaving the Big East (but not the one you may be thinking - how's that for a teaser?). Meanwhile a Georgia Tech forward is AI (not artificial intelligence), and Richard Jefferson writes a $3.5 million check to help Arizona built a new practice facility

On a totally unrelated note, Richard Jefferson I am your biggest fan, please send me $350,000 so I can build a new blogging practice facility :-)

History revisited at A Sea of Blue as they revisit the 1992 Duke vs Kentucky game

Gonzo brings Shaheen Halloway back (as an assistant, he can't play!) says Dick Hoops Weiss

A Sea of Blue previews the 2007-2008 SEC west with LSU, and Tennessee of Bruce Pearl fame.

The man who shot and killed USC's Ryan Francis faces automatic life sentence according to CBS Sportsline

CHN's 144 previews of 2007-08 continue with Winthrop, Central Michigan, Siena, Fordham and Florida State.

MMAS gives us Volume 2 of their Summer Thoughts covering the ACC, Pac-10, ACC and Big 12. They also have a poll on who you think should be the preseason #1 team in the nation. Vote early and often - it is not illegal to do so on web polls :) Currently leading the way is Memphis with UCLA's slugfest a close 2nd, and Michigan Izzo State at #3.

More CAA updates at the CAA Hoops blog

Possible new feature: time permitting I will try to break down the AASAA offense by looking at "tape" from Memphis games in 2006-2007. No promises though. After all I am not "formally trained" in this sort of thing :)

TV Guide, August 20 to 31, 2007

Do read this! All times pacific, add +3 for eastern, adjust for other time zones... Listings can change at any time, please double check with your local provider prior to airtime... I am boycotting ESPNU tv listings until Comcast and ESPN reach compromise and make ESPNU available to their millions of customers

High school and recruiting-related tv coverage at Recruiting Wars (almost nothing this week)

Almost every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


College Basketball Game Repeats

Thur Aug 23, 2pm, Arizona at Washington, repeat from Jan. 4, 2007, Fox College Sports

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


FIBA Americas Championship LIVE from Las Vegas!

all times pacific, check local listings for details

Tue Aug 21, 3pm, Warm up for the upcoming non-stop action with a repeat of the State Farm USA Challenge from Las Vegas, where Team USA had a scrimmage with game conditions in front of a the Vegas crowd, on Fox College Sports

Wedn Aug 22, FIBA Americas Championship, LIVE!, starts on NBA-TV, ESPN2 and FSN.

Team USA games will be on one of the ESPN channels, while other countries will be featured on FSN and NBA-TV

Wedn Aug 22: Team USA plays Venezuela on ESPN Classic or ESPN2 (not sure). Three other games are shown on NBA-TV. Game repeats on NBA-TV

Thur Aug 23: Team USA plays on ESPN Classic/ESPN2, while NBA-TV and FSN show the other games.

Fri Aug 24: only repeats of games?

Sat Aug 25: Team USA faces off Canada at noon on ESPN2. FSN and NBA-TV cover the rest of the games

Sun Aug 26: Team USA faces Brazil at 6pm on ESPN2. Other games on NBA-TV and FSN. Team USA games will repeat on NBA-TV as well.

Mon Aug 27: Second round action begins, with Team USA playing on ESPN2, and NBA-TV with FSN showing other games

Tue Aug 28: More games, with TeamUSA on ESPN2, and FSN/NBATV the other games

Wedn Aug 29: More games - coverage same as above

Thur Aug 30: More games - coverage same as above

Fri Aug 31: break time!

Sat Sept 1: Semifinals. One on ESPN Classic. Listings to be continued next week...


Documentaries and more

Mon Aug 20, 11am and 730pm, The Year of the Yao, Sundance Channel

Tue Aug 21, 830am, Books and Basketball: Bill Bradley, NBA-TV. Repeats Wedn Aug 22 at 830am, and Thur Aug 30 at 10pm.

Tue Aug 21, 6pm, Howard Stern: Naked Basketball, In-Demand Pay Per View. Oops! Why is this even listed here?

Wedn Aug 22, GLORY ROAD, on Encore. Repeats a few more times during the week on either Encore or Starz Blackz: Thur Aug 23, Fri Aug 24, Sun Aug 26, Tue Aug 28, Wedn Aug 29, Fri Aug 31. Check with your local listings for exact airtime and channel availability.

ACC All Access has a best of basketball highlight episode. Air times: thur aug 23, fri aug 24. All on Fox College Sports. On local FSN stations in ACC markets as well. Stories featured: Ivory Latta, Kay Yow, Rayshawn Terry, and Cameron Open Door Stadium at Duke.

Thur Aug 23, SEC-TV best of basketball. Fox College Sports. Also repeats on Fri Aug 24.

Tue Aug 28, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Wedn Aug 29, at 9pm: 2002 Hall of Fame enchrinement, repeat, on NBA-TV. Featuring: Lute Olson, Kay Yow, Larry Brown, Magic Johnson, Harlem Globetrotters and Drazen Petrovic.

Sat Sept 1, 4pm, Under the Lights featuring Bruce Pearl (repeat), Fox College Sports

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd



NBA Summer League

NBATV and webcast schedule at NBA.com for the whole month of July 2007


Movies Movies Movies

The TV series "White Shadow" has some repeats on NBA-TV

The movie Glory Road (the story of the 1966 Texas Western with head coach Don Haskins) repeats multiple times on the Starz family of channels and now on Encore.

Other movies on rotation: Basketball Diaries on Sundance, Hoosiers on AMC, He got Game on Starz Black, Harvard Man on Showtime and TMC family of channels, Slam Dunk Ernest on Starz, Rebound (2005) on HBO, The Sixth Man on Starz and Encore, Air Bud on the Animal Planet, Blue Chips on CineMax

The series Arliss is repeating on ESPN Classic. Some episodes are basketball related.

please check with local listings for airtimes of the movies


Directly from the Source

Listings for FSN and Fox College Sports (FCS) (actually all Fox related channels, including Soccer, Espagnol, Speed, but those dont usually show basketball games).

Preparing these listings is a time consuming process and your support will be appreciated! If you find these listings useful, you can encourage this blog to continue posting them by making your Amazon.com purchases via the affiliate link here or the Amazon logos in the blog.

Jon Stewart hires a new assistant at Dayton

Featured Story: Jason Whitlock's REAL TALK is back at Fox Sports. This time he covers Imus, Vivian Stringer, and Ronnie Thompson and Ball State. Some interesting stuff: He spent hours in a law office with the three Thompsons (Big John, Georgetown John, and Ball StateRonnie trying to convince him to write a story about the situation. Whitlock did not, but Wilborn (of PTI and Washington Post) wrote it. Whitlock is a Ball State alum and former football player. More revelations by Whitlock: Ronnie was dropping N-bombs (he had an all-black roster), and he randomly told his players "not to trust in (white people)". Whitlock's story is bound to create a big stir!

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

A mid-major edition of the Goodman blog looking at Pacific (the Big East killer in the NCAA tourney) and Sam Houston State... He also has an update on Jon Stewart at Dayton: He has hired a former A-10 head coach as an assistant. No, not Stephen Colber(t)

It's transfer day today! More at Recruiting Wars. Some of the teams involved: Alabama, Texas Tech, Minnesssooottttaaa, Nebraska, and West Virginia.

Gary Parrish talks about Godfather's new HBO movie with James Gandolfini, as reported at Variety.com. The Godfather being Sonny Vaccaro, the Godfather of Summer Hoops (and shoe deals too)!

Rhode is making a top 60 comeback according to Rivals. Not thanks to Jim Harrick for sure! Rhode has one of the top 10 player names for 2007-2008: Parfait Bitee! (I kid you not, look it up!)

Lots of goodies in Andrew Skwara's mailbag! Score-first point(s) guards, Georgia, Florida State, Nigel Munson, and Four Sleepers for 2007-2008.

The CAA Hoops blog blogger spent some time with Rod Barnes at Ole Miss Georgia State. He talks about Lefty Driesel Rod Barnes and his plans for the 2007-2008 season.

More later on (if there's more happenings)

Book bargain: Lute Olson, The Seasons of my life just $5 (hardcover!)

Book bargain: Lute Olson's "The Seasons of my life", released October 2006, is currently at the bargain price of just $5 at Amazon (hardcover edition, 336 pages!). Free shipping with orders over $25.

Have some Mayo with your Turkey!

Have some Mayo with your turkey! No, this has not transformed into a Food blog! USC and super-frosh OJ Mayo will participate in the inaugural Anaheim classic airing on the ESPN family of networks on Thanksgiving day. You see Pac-10 games are mostly on FSN (with a few on CBS or ABC), so ESPN and USC had to find ways to showcase OJ Mayo to a broader national audience. These will be an exempt tourney, Nov 22-25, with games on ESPN2 and ESPNU. Comcast ADD ESPNU NOW! ESPN, make it happen!

Nice story by Andrew Skwara at Rivals via Yahoo Sports (say that ten times fast). Basketball wiseman and DePaul head coach Jerry Wainwright breaks down the ten players of the U19 team that played in Europe a few weeks ago. The ten players include super-frosh Michael Beasley, seven "BCS" players and two high-profile mid-major players. Nice season preview type of post! It will be added to our Gigantic 2007-2008 Season Preview Links

Despite coaches leaving left and right during the spring/summer, Dana Altman is still at Creighton. And he gets profiled by Goodman's blog. Also: Good news for NCState as Tracy Smith is cleared by the NCAA. Also some props are given to Vermont's Mike Trimboli.

DeCourcy picks a national champion among five finalists. His final five (not a BSG reference) are not really a surprise, all five of them made it to the Elite 8 last year (two of which went to the Final Four)

Cashmere is in at Cincinatti. Details at Fashion Wars oops! Recruiting Wars

DeCourcy breaks down the Lopez twins at Stanford
Georgia is the team broken down by Rivals today as part of their 64-part series of 2007-2008 previews

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

FAMU releases men's cage mentor Mike Gillepsie Tuesday

Strange press release title: FAMU RELEASES MEN'S CAGE MENTOR MIKE GILLESPIE TUESDAY. What's a Cage Mentor??? (surely not someone who stalks his former girlfriend and makes her feel like she is in a ...cage, while at the same time mentoring college students in basketball?).

New commitments for Washington, Maryland, Houston, Arkansas, NM State and more. Links at Recruiting Wars. Also the final six for Lance Stephenson according to Dick Hoops Weiss!

Is the 2007-2008 Kentucky roster balanced? asks A Sea of Blue.

The preview parade continues at CHN with two State schools, with Florida State (will Leonard Hamilton have his break out season this time around?) and Fresno State (with the BYU coach), and Austin Pee Peay.

The CAA Hoops blog is discussing "points of emphasis" for officials for the 2007-2008 season. Story at CAAZone. If you are hungry and speed-reading (which I am!) you may read that as Calzone ;)

Yes, we are just two months away from Midnight Madness!

Loads of news from around the country at CSTV's News Archive. Included: Washington's schedule, groundbreaking at UTEP, Luke Zeller diary, TCU's international adventure, BYU in France (good luck convincing them to give up wine!), 100th season at South Carolina, Auburn's Cancun (Spring Break in August?) Trip, and dozens more!

Purdue is profiled today at the Rivals top 64 countdown. Matt Painter managed to put down a solid recruiting class, and added a JuCo forward just a couple of days ago.

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Speaking of DVDs, here are some of new releases (pictures are links to Amazon.com):

Florida A&M fires stalker/coach, Ronnie Thomspon talks to Wilborn, Rick Majerus previewed at Rivals

Goodman's latest blog looks at Stan Heath at South Florida

Recruiting updates at Recruiting Wars

The 144 previews at CHN continue with Austin Peay, UNC-Greensboro, Seton Hall and Missouri

DeCourcy opines on Team USA and the situation with Ronnie Thompson at Ball State. More on this from Michael Wilborn of PTI, also at Washington Post. Wilborn goes into detail on the allegetations from both sides. As you may recall, the previous coach at Ball state was Tim Buckley, famous for Ball State's wins over "designer schools" at the Maui Invitational a few years ago.

Another coach fired! Florida A&M fires head coach Mike Gillispie, despite taking the team to the NCAA tourney last year. Why was he fired then? Because of an off-the-court situation - he was stalking a former girlfriend (who was obviously not his current wife). His lawyer complains of mishandling of the situation by Florida A&M.

CBS Sportsline looks at Mark Fox and his non-leaving

Jerry Meyer of Rivals opens his mailbag and answers questions about Brandon Jennings, UCLA, Ralph Sampson III, Tyreke Evans (down to two schools allegedly), and Abdul Gaddy.

Meanwhile Rivals (and Yahoo Sports) have started a top 64 teams countdown, previewing the upcoming season!. This has been added to our Gigantic 2007-2008 season preview links

The most exciting of their previews so far is of course Saint Louis now with Rick Majerus!.

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Best new music first! New music releases today, pictures are links to detailed info at Amazon:

Houses of the ...Coaches

A very interesting story at A Sea of Blue on Billy Gillispie and his houses. One of the funny tidbits mentioned in the story: When Billy G invited his UTEP team to watch the selection sunday show (in early March), they noticed that his Xmas tree was still up. March is after all Christmas for college hoops fans :)

If you missed it, text messaging remains banned with January being another opportunity to change it. Needless to say (at least some)coaches want texting back. But on the plus side, my carrier pigeon business has been picking up! They are not prohibited by the NCAA rules. College coaches, drop me a line! I'll give you a special discount if you buy 100 or more carrier pigeon messages this month!... Reaction to the non-ruling ruling by Gary Parish at CBS Sportsline

And some good news from the NCAA: They have given Texas Tech center Esmir Rizvic an additional half-season of eligibility. As you may recall he was "taken out" by a vicious Longar Longar foul (yes, a Kelvin Sampson slugfest recruit - what did you expect?) in early January and missed the rest of the season.

CHN's 144 previews continue with Seton Hall (now with Gonzo), Missouri (now with 40 minutes of Fun), UNC Wilmington of the CAA, and the LeBron Zips.

Catch up with the latest from the MAC at Hoops Wise

Want to recap where the underclassmen went in the NBA Draft? Bracketology 101 has a recap of the 32 underclassmen, six of which went undrafted. The most high profile of the unselected were Dwight Brewington (would have been first deaf player drafted), and former Kentucky and Cal transfers Shagari Alleyne (height is not enough for the NBA draft) and Dom McGuire.

Evansville's Jason Holsinger scored 26, as a member of a travelling team of college players playing in Australia.

Recruiting stuff at the Recruiting Wars blog.

But if you really want to read lots of news, check CSTV's News Archives!. They have dozens of stories per week, covering universities big and small. Just today they have stories covering the international tours of Utah, TCU, Team USA/Northern Iowa now with triangle offense. Also stories of interest to fans of Cincy, Washington State, Loyola (Ill), Lipscomb, summer of injuries at Elite 8 Kansas, and more. Last week's archives have tons of stories, including Doug Gottleib's brother leaving Steve Fisher San Diego Experience/Experiment for UC-Hippie Lettuce. UC-HL lost one of their assistants as he took over as head coach of the U of New Orleans. Gregg played at Drake while in college, but he wasn't a high profile player like Doug. Other items of interest: Luke Zeller's diary from down under, schedule announcements from various colleges, Phil Martelli's book will come out in September, and tons more. Visit/bookmark the CSTV news archives for tons and tosn of news from around the world of college hoops.

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Today on OTL: State of USA Basketball

Today's Outside the Lines on ESPN, at 3pm eastern / noon pacific will be looking at the State of USA Basketball. Direct link to the OTL website. Also a Video preview (broadband) of this feature. Their poll of the day is also on this topic: "Why have USA Basketball Teams recently failed in international competition?"

Here is how the OTL daily email describes the centerpiece feature on (Men's) USA Basketball:
"Once upon a time, the USA basketball team dominated the world. No other team stood a chance against the overwhelming command the Americans had on the basketball court. Times have changed though, and the rest of the world has caught up. A far cry from the original 1992 "Dream Team," the last 2 USA Olympic basketball teams have finished no better than 3rd place. Now, in an effort to regain their status in the world, the USA is assembling its team years in advance, hoping to gel and compete. Outside the Lines looks at the state of USA Basketball, and it's hope to rebound from recent disappointments.".

TV Guide, August 13 to 23, 2007

Do read this! All times pacific, add +3 for eastern, adjust for other time zones... Listings can change at any time, please double check with your local provider prior to airtime... I am boycotting ESPNU tv listings until Comcast and ESPN reach compromise and make ESPNU available to their millions of customers

High school games with D1 prospects from the Texas Coaches All Star game and the NY2LA classic at Recruiting Wars

Almost every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


College Basketball Game Repeats

Tue Aug 14, 7am, unknown game, on Fox College Sports (FCS) [maybe]

Wedn Aug 15, 10am to 3pm, One hour highlights from the Collegiate slam dunk and three point contests from 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2002 on ESPN Classic.

Wedn Aug 15, 530pm, Florida vs Georgetown, 2006 Sweet 16, CSTV

Fri Aug 17, 730am and 230pm, unknown games on FCS

Fri Aug 17, 3pm, Florida vs Georgetown, 2006 Sweet 16, CSTV

Sat Aug 18, 1am and 930am, unknown games on FCS

Sat Aug 18, 6am, Florida vs Georgetown, 2006 Sweet 16, CSTV

Sat Aug 18, 3pm, 10pm, Kentucky at Florida, March 4 2007, CSTV (a CBS game, finally CSTV woke up and figured out they can rebroadcast CBS games!)

Sun Aug 19, 7am, Kentucky at Florida, March 4 2007, CSTV

Sun Aug 19, 330pm, Florida vs Ohio State, 2007 NCAA final, CSTV

Wedn Aug 22, FIBA Americas Championship, LIVE!, starts on NBA-TV, ESPN2 and FSN

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


Documentaries and more

Mon Aug 13, 8pm, Official 2007 NCAA championship highlights (1 hour), CSTV

ACC All Access has a best of basketball highlight episode. Air times: tue aug 14, wedn aug 15, thur aug 23, fri aug 24. All on Fox College Sports. On local FSN stations in ACC markets as well. Stories featured: Ivory Latta, Kay Yow, Rayshawn Terry, and Cameron Open Door Stadium at Duke.

Tue Aug 14, 2am and 5am, Official 2007 NCAA championship highlights (1 hour), CSTV

Tue Aug 14, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Tue Aug 14, One to One: Kay Yow, Billy Donovan, Voices of March, CSTV

Wedn Aug 15, 930am, NCAA On Campus, ESPN Classic. Each show ends with Myles Brand answering a question from a student-athlete.

Wedn Aug 15, 4pm, Stanford at Oregon State, Fox College Sports

Wedn Aug 15, 730pm, The Final Four Salute (repeat, 1 hour), CSTV

Wedn Aug 15, One to One: Kay Yow, Billy Donovan, Voices of March, Pat Summit, on CSTV. Also repeat on Fri Aug 17, Sat Aug 18 and Sun Aug 19.

Thur Aug 16, 1230am, UCLA at Stanford, Fox College sports

Thur Aug 16, SEC-TV best of basketball. Fox College Sports. Also repeats on Fri Aug 17, Sat Aug 18, Thur Aug 23.

Thur Aug 16, 8pm, The Final Four Salute (repeat, 1 hour), CSTV

Fri Aug 17, 5pm, The Final Four Salute (repeat, 1 hour), CSTV

Fri Aug 17, 730pm, Official 2007 NCAA championship highlights (1 hour), CSTV

Sat Aug 18, Hardwood Heavens marathon starting at 4am on high definition channel MojoHD. Formerly known as INHD. They are also showing individual episodes throughout. Check local listings for details.

Sat Aug 18, 8pm, Official 2007 NCAA championship highlights (1 hour), CSTV

Sun Aug 19, 9am, Books and Basketball: Bill Bradley, NBA-TV

Sun Aug 19, GLORY ROAD, on Encore. Repeats a few more times during the week on Encore and Starz Blackz

Mon Aug 20, 11am and 730pm, The Year of the Yao, Sundance Channel

Tue Aug 21, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Tue Aug 21, 6pm, Howard Stern: Naked Basketball, In-Demand Pay Per View. Oops! Why is this even listed here?

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd

NBA Summer League

NBATV and webcast schedule at NBA.com for the whole month of July 2007


Movies Movies Movies

The TV series "White Shadow" has some repeats on NBA-TV

The movie Glory Road (the story of the 1966 Texas Western with head coach Don Haskins) repeats multiple times on the Starz family of channels and now on Encore.

Other movies on rotation: Basketball Diaries on Sundance, Hoosiers on AMC, He got Game on Starz Black, Harvard Man on Showtime and TMC family of channels, Slam Dunk Ernest on Starz, Rebound (2005) on HBO, The Sixth Man on Starz and Encore, Air Bud on the Animal Planet, Blue Chips on CineMax

The series Arliss is repeating on ESPN Classic. Some episodes are basketball related.

please check with local listings for airtimes of the movies


Directly from the Source

Listings for FSN and Fox College Sports (FCS) (actually all Fox related channels, including Soccer, Espagnol, Speed, but those dont usually show basketball games).

Preparing these listings is a time consuming process and your support will be appreciated! If you find these listings useful, you can encourage this blog to continue posting them by making your Amazon.com purchases via the affiliate link here or the Amazon logos in the blog.

Tape-delayed Weekend Update

Recruting updates at Recruiting Wars, including new players for Steve Alford and Matt Painter.

From the Goodman blog: Updates from Tom Crean at Marquette, Tommy Amaker at Michigan Harvard, and Jim Rome's alma mater UC Santa Barbara! Also an update on Team USA (aka Northern Iowa experimenting with the triangle offense), and an injury update on a former Steve Alford player... But wait there's more from Goodman: Karl Malone helps Kerry Rupp and Louisiana Tech, Arizona having a 10-year reunion of their NCAA championship, and more.

The Goodman blog story above is yet another confirmation that we may have two teams in the Big East next year playing with four guard line-ups. The other one of course being Villanova (no, Lowry, Ray, Foye and Nardi are not coming back).

More previews at CHN featuring the LeBron Zips (Akron), New Mexico now with Steve Alford, UMass now with Travis Ford, Minnesota TimberGophers now with Tubby Smith, Cincinatti now with not-Huggins, and Arizona State with Herb Sendek and former Dookie Eric Boetang.

You know we are getting closer to the NCAA men's college basketball season when NFL preseason games start to crawl out of the TV set! The countdown to Midnight Madness clock at A Sea of Blue says 63 days and change!

McDonalds All-Bench Warmer at UCLA Adam Keefe will have shoulder surgery according to CBS Sportsline.

Speaking of UCLA, former assistant Kerry Keating is featured in a story at CBS Sportsline by Parrish on NCAA and texting. As you may recall this topic was recently featured on ESPN's Outside the Lines (check my post from a few days ago for more details)

Mike DeCourcy shines the spotlight on Rider big man Jason Thompson. Player to watch for 2007-2008!

The non-profit entity known as the NCAA *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* is going to move the Final Fours to even bigger domes, now a minimum of 70,000 capacity according to DeCourcy. This partly because they want to create student end-zone seating at significantly reduced prices. Read DeCourcy's story for more details.

Want more from DeCourcy? Bookmark his webspage at TSN! (TSN = The Sporting News)

Good news for Kansas State fans (but not really), Billy Walker has received a medical redshirt for last season, so he has four more years of eligibility according to Parrish of CBS. As if he was gonna stay for three years, let alone four :)

CAA updates including a top 10 list at the CAA Hoops blog

Speaking of the CAA, thanks to the CAAZone for the link to this blog!

Good news in college sports has new inspirational and feel-good stories from the world of sports, including fund raising by D2 coaches, a sophomore field hockey goalie making a difference, and a lot more.

More advise, thoughts and tidbits at the Player Development blog

The Sports Flow blog is taking a stab at Big Ten expansion, with a list of five potential candidates.

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Our musical "guest" this weekend is Dave Matthews and Timmy Reynolds performing Live at Radio City Music Hall! The 2-disc CD and 2-disc DVD sets will be released on Tuesday August 14, 2007. Prices: only $12 for the 2-CD set (26 songs), and $20 for the DVDs (150 minutes long)

NCAA and Text messaging today on Outside the Lines (OTL)

Don't miss today's OTL. The centerpiece feature is on the NCAA and Text messaging. It airs at 3pm ET / noon pacific on ESPN. Two coaches will be featured: Jim Larranaga of George Mason and Jim Boeheim of Syracuse. Outside the Lines webpage

This is how the ESPN OTL email update describes it:
"Today, the NCAA's board of directors are scheduled to hear an appeal by at least 30 schools who want to overturn the ban of text messages between college coaches and recruits. Text Messaging became a popular recruiting tool in which college coaches could constantly communicate with high school prospects. This tool wasn't effectively regulated by the NCAA, until earlier this year when text messaging was banned by the NCAA. In s story that aired last year, ESPN contacted several highly-recruited high school athletes who received text messages, along with their coaches and parents. They described an atmosphere where college coaches frequently text messaged recruits during their freshman and sophomore years, a clear violation of NCAA rules. College coaches are also using text messages as a way to circumvent the rules. While college coaches are extremely limited in the number of times they can phone high school recruits, high school recruits can phone college coaches as often as they like, so many of the coaches' text messages end with, "Call me." George Mason basketball coach Jim Larranaga admits, "Every time a rule is made some bright young assistant finds a way around it." Outside the Lines examines the controversy surrounding text messaging, followed by a live discussion with Syracuse head basketball coach, Jim Boeheim."

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Dino Gaudio becomes the next head coach at Wake Forest

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

If you missed this blog's random thoughts write-up on the 2007-2008 Memphis Tigers, here it is. Next one will be Duke (and I promise it will be biased!)

DeCourcy opines on Dino Gaudio becoming the next Wake Forest head coach. Still can't believe Skip Prosser is gone :(

More coverage on this at CBS Sportsline, Gary Parrish's blog, Goodman's blog

Also from Goodman, Karl Hobbs looks ahead to the 2007-2008 season, and so does talk-show host/coach Phil Martelli. Goodman also has an update on Northern Iowa and their experimental triangle offense representing USA Basketball in Thailand. Also an update from Virginia Tech where TJ Thompson is trying to become eligible a year earlier (a recent trend). Goodman also informs us that Hank Nichols will be retiring soon.

A SWOT analysis of Billy Gillispie at A Sea of Blue.

Billy Taylor (Lehigh head coach) takes over Ball State, amid the Ronnie Thompson controversy. With about two months away from Midnight Madness, Taylor will be facing an uphill battle. The "racially hostile environment" comments made by Ronnie Thompson certainly weight in on Billy Taylor, also an African-American. Among the previous Ball State head coaches? Rick Majerus!

Billy Gillispie on "basketball special teams" by Gary Parrish via A Sea of Blue. Almost an Xs and Os post.

The field for the Jimmy V classic has been set for December 4 at MSG, with the Domers facing off with Huggins-less Kansas State, and the Joe Biden of basketball coaches (Calipari) with Derrick Rose facing OJ Mayo and USC. Mayo and Rose faced off before in the summer circuit and in high-school. This will be a ratings bait for ESPN!

Knight lost, not a game, not a recruit, but his legal battle vs his liability coverage insurance company. The only reason this is really news it's because it involves Bob Knight.

Lots of new previews at CHN since my last post: Cincy (no Huggins), Arizona State (now with Herb Sendek), Loyola Maryland (with a former Gary Williams assistant as h/c), Jim Rome's alma mater (UC Santa Barbie), South Alabama (with new coach), and Boston Collage.

Dick Hoops Weiss talks about the new Ball State coach and ends by reminding us that Duke will open play at the Maui Classic against Princeton. Go Princeton! Go Princeton! Go Princeton!

The George Mason bball blog is "excited" that they are adding a former NFL GM to the university's roster. His claim to fame? Not picking Reggie Bush in the 2006 NFL draft.

The ACC Fan Blog discusses Ricky Stokes formerly of (yet still at) East Carolina

Spoiler Alert! The following line will reveal the top two teams of Yahoo Sports top 10 teams since the 64-team NCAA tournament in 1985. Rivals revealed their #2 and #1, with the Dookies of 92 being #2 and Tark the Shark's Running Rebels of 1990 at #1. If only they managed to beat the Dookies again in 1991. I'm sure there are many parallel universes where the Running Rebels won :-) If anyone is reading this from over there, can you please send me a DVD of that game? PLEASE!

Recruiting updates at Recruiting Wars

Every 2007 NCAA Tournament game on DVD!

The NCAA Tournament people have discovered DVDs! Every single 2007 NCAA Tournament game is available for pre-order on DVD on Amazon! They are currently available for pre-order, but no release date is given yet. The pre-order prices range from $22 to $25, but Amazon has a pre-order price guarantee as well as a 30-day price guarantee after the item ships (for items purchased from Amazon, not 3rd party sellers).

List of 2007 tournament DVDs (65 total). One game per DVD.

Detailed list of 2007 NCAA men's basketball games (2006-2007 season)

As a reminder of the 2007 NCAA brackets, here they are, at NCAA Sports and at TeamRankings.com (JPEG file)

Final Four - Atlanta

Florida Gators - Back 2 Back National Champions 2006 - 2007. This is the Florida fans version, with a season recap, it is not the official Final Four dvd. This one is either 60 or 90 minutes long. It is produced by Hart Sharp Video, while all the other DVDs mentioned in here are produced by NCAA On-Demand (NCAASports.com)

The Official 2007 NCAA Championship Final Four DVD is not listed at Amazon as of this time. It is listed elsewhere and about 240 minutes long. The 2006 edition had all three Final Four games on it, at full length.


Florida won this Regional - Midwest Regional in Saint Louis

Elite 8: Florida vs Oregon

Sweet 16: Butler vs Florida

Sweet 16: Oregon vs UNLV

2nd round: Purdue vs Florida

2nd round: Butler vs Maryland

2nd round: Winthrop vs Oregon

2nd round: UNLV vs Wisconsin

1st round: Jackson State vs Florida

1st round: Arizona vs Purdue

1st round: Old Dominion vs Butler

1st round: Maryland vs Davidson

1st round: Winthrop vs Notre Dame Digger Phelps's favorite cinderella faces his favorite team!

1st round: Miami of Ohio vs Oregon

1st round: Georgia Tech vs UNLV. Two super-froshs face Kruger ball

1st round: Texas A&M Corpus Cristi vs Wisconsin


Georgetown won this Regional - East Regional, E. Rutherford, New Jersey

Elite 8: North Carolina vs Georgetown

Sweet 16: USC vs North Carolina

Sweet 16:Georgetown vs Vandy

2nd round: Michigan State vs North Carolina

2nd round: USC vs Texas (Kevin Durant's last game in college!)

2nd round: Vandy vs Washington State

2nd round: Boston College vs Georgetown

1st round: Eastern Kentucky vs North Carolina

1st round: Marquette vs Michican State (the Jud Heathcote tree battle)

1st round: Arkansas vs USC (Stan Heath's swan song)

1st round: New Mexico State vs Texas (Kevin Durant!)

1st round: Vandy vs George Washington

1st round: Oral Roberts vs Washington State

1st round: Texas Tech vs Boston College

1st round: Belmont vs Georgetown


Ohio State won this Regional - South regional, in San Antonio

Elite 8: Memphis vs Ohio State

Sweet 16: Texas A&M vs Memphis(good game!)

Sweet 16: Ohio State vs Xavier

2nd round: Ohio State vs Tennessee

2nd round: Nevada vs Memphis

2nd round: Texas A&M vs Louisville. (future Kentucky coach faces former Kentucky coach)

2nd round: Virginia vs Tennessee

1st round: Central Connecticut State vs Ohio State (Greg Oden!)

1st round: BUY vs Xavier

1st round: Penn vs Texas A&M

1st round: Long Beach State vs Tennessee

1st round: North Texas vs Memphis (The Calipari Experiment)

1st round: Stanford vs Louisville Pitino returns to Rupp Arena

1st round: Albany vs Virginia

1st round: Creighton vs Nevada (a bracket buster spotlight game?)


UCLA won this Regional West Regional, San Jose

Elite 8: Kansas vs UCLA

Sweet 16: Pitt vs UCLA Two close friends duke it out.

Sweet 16: Southern Illinois vs Kansas (almost a win for the Salukis)

2nd round: Kansas vs Kentucky

2nd round: Indiana vs UCLA (total slugfest, no surprise really - look at who is coaching!)

2nd round: VCU vs Pitt

2nd round: Virginia Tech vs Illinois

1st round: UCLA vs Weber State

1st round: VCU vs Duke. MUST BUY THIS ONE!

1st round: Virginia Tech vs Southern Illinois (total slugfest)

1st round: Wright State vs Pitt

1st round: Holy Cross vs Southern Illinois

1st round: Villanova vs Kentucky

1st round: Gonzaga vs Indiana

1st round: Niagara vs Kansas


NCAA Division II Tournament DVDs

Final: The very dramatic final of Barton vs Winona State

Semifinal: Barton vs Cal State San Bernandino

Either national semifinal or Elite 8 game between Barton and Grand Valley State. Contact Amazon before purchasing this one!


Here are some examples of how the DVDs look, starting with my favorite game of the tourney pictured first! (This post would take forever to load and read if I put all 63 dvds in this format)




These two below are books, not DVDs.

Official 2007 NCAA Men's Final Four Records Book (Ncaa Final Four Tournament Records) (Paperback), $11.

Official Program of the 2007 Final Four, by Host Communications, currently at $10.00



But wait, there's more! The 2007 NCAA Women's tourney games on DVD are also available! 2007 NCAA Women DVDs (list of 60 DVDs total). Same price range and setup.

Also, if you are looking for classic college basketball games from the past on DVD, check this post

Ricky Stokes out at East Carolina

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

Rivals reports that Ricky Stokes is finally out at East Carolina. This story had been buzzing around for a while. Will this start a late spin of the coaching carousel? Probably not, his deputy will likely take over, associate head coach Mack McCarthy (McCarthism involved in the firing?). Stokes was only there for two years. While East Carolina is just a compass jump away from North Carolina, they are centuries behind in terms of college basketball :) Don't expect miracles East Carolina! His replacement made the Sweet 16 as a head coach ten years ago!

In an interesting 10-part series of historical interest, Rivals looks at the top 10 teams of the "64 era", since the NCAA tourney expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Who's #1? They haven't revealed that yet!

Check the posts below for the weekly TV guide including repeats of college basketball games, documentaries and movies, including Glory Road on Encore Action and Starz Black.

Three BCS teams got new players today. More at Recruiting Wars. Also Parrish column on recruiting decommitments, Kentucky recruiting, top 200 of 2008 by CSTV and more.

DeCourcy talks about the diffucult choices the Wake Forest AD must make in picking a replacement for Skip Prosser. Wake is not a public university, so that gives the AD a little bit more flexibility. Read on to find out more... Meanwhile Xavier pays tribute to Skip Prosser

Eric Gordon scores 38 in a pickup game, but it's enough to create a buzz at Indiana

A Sea of Blue strongly disagrees with the Louisville Carrier Journal linking Kentucky to the student loan kickbacks scandal under investigation by New York AG Cuomo.

James Madison, lemon trucks, back porches, Blue Ribbon previews, all this at the CAA Hoops blog. Mid-major to watch alert!

Good news for NC State fans, Gavin Grant's legal issues have been resolved favorably

From ProFantasySports via the ACC Fan Blog we get a list of the top 10 returning ACC players. According to that list there are four players better than Tywon Lawson in the ACC. One could perhaps make an argument for Iverson-Lite (Sean Singletary) ahead of Lawson, but Tyreese Rice ahead of Ty Lawson? Come on!!! :)

Tech Corner: Looking for a new notebook computer this week? Circuit City is offering the Compaq Presario F572us for $450 after a $30 rebate. It features a dvd burner and a dual-core AMD processor, along with the usual features.

TV Guide starting August 6, 2007 (for the next two weeks)

Do read this! All times pacific, add +3 for eastern, adjust for other time zones... Listings can change at any time, please double check with your local provider prior to airtime... I am boycotting ESPNU tv listings until Comcast and ESPN reach compromise and make ESPNU available to their millions of customers

High school games with D1 prospects from the Texas Coaches All Star game and the NY2LA classic at Recruiting Wars

Almost every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


College Basketball Game Repeats

Fri Aug 10, The Glory Road movie on Encore Action (movie channel)

Sat Aug 11, 530pm, this is for the college football fans, season preview: "In Search of #1", on Comcast Sports Net

Tue Aug 14, 7am, unknown game, on Fox College Sports (FCS)

Wedn Aug 15, 10am to 3pm, One hour highlights from the Collegiate slam dunk and three point contests from 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2002 on ESPN Classic.

Wedn Aug 15, 530pm, Florida vs Georgetown, 2006 Sweet 16, CSTV

Fri Aug 17, 730am and 230pm, unknown games on FCS

Fri Aug 17, 3pm, Florida vs Georgetown, 2006 Sweet 16, CSTV

Sat Aug 18, 1am and 930am, unknown games on FCS

Sat Aug 18, 6am, Florida vs Georgetown, 2006 Sweet 16, CSTV

Sat Aug 18, 3pm, Kentucky at Florida, March 4 2007, CSTV (a CBS game, finally CSTV woke up and figured out they can rebroadcast CBS games!)

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd


Documentaries and more

Tue Aug 7, 430pm, One to One: Kay Yow, CSTV

Tue Aug 7, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Wedn Aug 8, 130pm, Year of the Yao, Sundance Channel

Thur Aug 9, 11am, One to One: Kay Yow, CSTV

Thur Aug 9, 1130am, One to One: Pat Summitt, CSTV

Thur Aug 9, 7pm, Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... NCAA for not paying student athletes, ESPN Classic

Thur Aug 9, 730pm, Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... Chris Webber for Michigan's loss in the 1993 NCAA final, ESPN Classic.

fri Aug 10, 1pm, One to One: Kay Yow, CSTV

Fri Aug 10, The Glory Road movie on Encore Action (movie channel)

ACC All Access has a best of basketball highlight episode. Air times: fri aug 10, sat aug 11. All on Fox College Sports. On local FSN stations in ACC markets as well. Stories featured: Ivory Latta, Kay Yow, Rayshawn Terry, and Cameron Open Door Stadium at Duke.

Sat Aug 11, Hardwood Heavens marathon starting at 4am on high definition channel MojoHD. Formerly known as INHD. They are also showing individual episodes throughout. Check local listings for details.

Sun Aug 12, One to One Billy Donovan and Pat Summit, CSTV

Mon Aug 13, 8pm, Official 2007 NCAA championship highlights (1 hour), CSTV

Tue Aug 14, 2am and 5am, Official 2007 NCAA championship highlights (1 hour), CSTV

Tue Aug 14, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Tue Aug 14, One to One: Kay Yow, Billy Donovan, Voices of March, CSTV

Wedn Aug 15, 930am, NCAA On Campus, ESPN Classic. Each show ends with Myles Brand answering a question from a student-athlete.

Wedn Aug 15, 730pm, The Final Four Salute (repeat, 1 hour), CSTV

Wedn Aug 15, One to One: Kay Yow, Billy Donovan, Voices of March, Pat Summit, on CSTV

Thur Aug 16, 8pm, The Final Four Salute (repeat, 1 hour), CSTV

Fri Aug 17, 5pm, The Final Four Salute (repeat, 1 hour), CSTV

Fri Aug 17, 730pm, Official 2007 NCAA championship highlights (1 hour), CSTV

Sat Aug 18, Hardwood Heavens marathon starting at 4am on high definition channel MojoHD. Formerly known as INHD. They are also showing individual episodes throughout. Check local listings for details.

Every 2007 NCAA men's college basketball tournament game on dvd

NBA Summer League

NBATV and webcast schedule at NBA.com for the whole month of July 2007


Movies Movies Movies

The TV series "White Shadow" has some repeats on NBA-TV

The movie Glory Road (the story of the 1966 Texas Western with head coach Don Haskins) repeats multiple times on the Starz family of channels and now on Encore.

Other movies on rotation: Basketball Diaries on Sundance, Hoosiers on AMC, He got Game on Starz Black, Harvard Man on Showtime and TMC family of channels, Slam Dunk Ernest on Starz, Rebound (2005) on HBO, The Sixth Man on Starz and Encore, Air Bud on the Animal Planet, Blue Chips on CineMax

The series Arliss is repeating on ESPN Classic. Some episodes are basketball related.

please check with local listings for airtimes of the movies


Directly from the Source

Listings for FSN and Fox College Sports (FCS) (actually all Fox related channels, including Soccer, Espagnol, Speed, but those dont usually show basketball games).

Preparing these listings is a time consuming process and your support will be appreciated! If you find these listings useful, you can encourage this blog to continue posting them by making your Amazon.com purchases via the affiliate link here or the Amazon logos in the blog.