Monday Night Hoops

Strange??? The three teams Vanderbilt faced in the 2007 NCAA tournament were: Georgetown, George Washington and Washington State. Can you see the pattern?

Everybody loves Duke

Clay also has a very good write-up on the whining of Coach K. I agree 100% with his conclusion: "Coach K whines too much!".

A Sea of Blue discusses the Dookie "why they hate us" essay.

The Dookie "why they hate us" essay is posted at the Duke Basketball Repor(t).

Among other things (read: everything) the Dookies blame is a couple of posts at the Nation of Islam Sports blog: this and that

And I'm not the only one who notices how Coach Dracula K drains the life force out of his players and turns them into K-Zombies. The NOIS blog says "He stole the talent and energy...".

And no mention of Duke is complete, without a reference to the Truth about Duke encyclopedia.

Please note that the above issues deal with men's basketball at Duke under Coach Dirty Rat Dracula K, not the whole university. But the occasional spillover effect is unavoidable especially if someething or someone was touched by Coach Midas K.


Stories

Jim Valvano's ESPY speech can be found at the AOL Sports Fanhouse. The speech is on YouTube.

John Clay writes that the basketball triangle is back!. He is not talking about Philip's triangle offense, but the triangle of Indiana, Kentucky and Louisville. He also breaks down the chances of the three teams with 2008 players.

He also writes about Roy Williams recruiting woes and how they remind UK fans of the Tubby Smith recruiting situation of the last couple of years.

I also wrote about that in Ole Roy ain't that good?. This is further discussed at the KatMan2000 ProBoards

I missed this story when it came out a couple of weeks ago Dan Patrick may be leaving ESPN. Keith O is trying a career at political punditry (or is it punditrom?). Maybe he can join Comedy Central and make a Daily Show for grown ups? :)

More news and stories from around the country at at BallHype.com

More previews have been posted at CHN's top 144 previews, including Sam Houston State, Hofstra and Albany.

The AOL Sports Fan House has posted their premature Hoops blogpoll as of July 13, 2007. Some interesting picks such as Washington State at #11

Another loaded post at Goodman's blog: Updates from the U19 team which will make Kansas State fans very happy. Lots of details on various players, both of interest to college and future NBA draft fans... Also: dates of various preseason exempt tourneys, the tough Gauchos guards take on all, Mr Jersey gets a space-eater big man, and more... The OldBEEPe Classic is the Old Spice Classic. Also sopBLEEPres. are sophomores. The FoxSports website is apparently editing parts of words that would be offensive if they were stand-alone words. You can do the math and figure them out, I'm not going to post them here :)

More from Goodman: The PanAm roster is down to 14. And it looks like ESPN2 might carry some of the basketball games. Some of the 14 players of interest: Duke-slayer Eric Maynor, Joey "I'm gonna own Oden" Dorsey, Roy Hibbert, and smooth operator Wayne Ellington.


Resources

College Hoops TV guide

Weekly TV guide (with regards to recruiting/high school games).

Recruiting Rankings and Ratings of 2007, 2008 and beyond (work in progress)

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

Gigantic 2007-2008 preview via links. (work in progress)

Video Games: NCAA Football 2008 comes out tomorrow!

I rarely cover video games although they are very popular, so here is it: NCAA Football 2008. Available for Xbox 360, Xbox, Playstation 2, and of course Playstation 3.

Weekly TV Guide (posted every Monday)

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

Some game repeats at ESPNU, however 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 New York's and Florida's state finals at Recruiting Wars


NBA Summer League

Say goodbye to the college stars of 2006-2007 as they start their professional career

New games daily on NBATV.

The Chinese national team is also participating in the summer leagues (I kid you not!)

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

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


College Basketball Game Repeats

Mon July 16, 3pm, NAIA D1 Tournament, semifinal, Concordia vs Robert Morris (used to be NCAA D1 college), CSTV

Tue July 17, 7am, 2007 Pontiac ACIS national championship, Fox College Sports

Tue July 17, 9am, Central Florida (UCF) vs Rice, C-USA Conference tourney quarterfinal, CSTV

Tue July 17, 11am, Houston vs Southern Miss, C-USA Conference tourney quarterfinal, CSTV

Tue July 17, 1pm and 9pm, Tulane vs Tulsa, C-USA Conference tourney quarterfinal, CSTV

Tue July 17, 4pm, SMU at TCU, CSTV

*** Repeat of the NCAA Division 2 Final Four on CSTV below:

Wedn July 18, 9am, Barton vs Cal State San Bernandino, NCAA D2 tournament, national semifinal, CSTV

Wedn July 18, 11am, Centra Missouri vs Winona State, NCAA D2 tournament, national semifinal, CSTV

Wedn July 18, 1pm and 9pm, NCAA Division II Championship game, Barton vs Winona State, CSTV

Fri July 20, 730am, 2pm, 1am (Sat), 2007 Pontiac ACIS national championship, Fox College Sports

Friday July 20, 5PM, BYU vs. UNLV Taped from 2002, BYUTV

Friday July 20, 8PM, BYU vs. Notre Dame Taped from 1981, BYUTV. Digger Phelps's favorite game of all time!

Friday July 20, 9:30 PM, BYU vs. Utah, Taped from 2002, BYUTV

Sat July 21, 930am, 2007 Pontiac ACIS national championship, Fox College Sports

*** Repeat of the South Padre Invitational Final Four on CSTV below:

Sat July 21, 3am, 9am, Missouri State vs Wisconsin, South Parde Island semifinal, CSTV

Sat July 21, 11am, Oklahoma State vs Auburn, South Parde Island semifinal, CSTV

Sat July 21, 1pm, 10pm, Oklahoma State vs Missouri State, South Parde Island final, CSTV

Sat July 21, 330pm, New Mexico State at Loyola Marymount" From Nov. 17, 2006, CSTV

Sun July 22 Marathon on Fox College Sports (FCS)

6am, Pac-10 conference tourney semifinal, USC vs Washington

12pm, Washington State at USC

2pm, Arizona State at Minnesota

2pm, USC at Stanford

4pm, Arizona State at Washington

4pm, Oregon at USC

6pm, Arizona State at USC

6pm, Pacific at Long Beach State

Mon July 23, 12pm, Utah at UNLV, CSTV

Wedn July 25, 9am, 1am, SMU at TCU, CSTV

Thur July 26, 9am, Utah at New Mexico, CSTV

Sat July 28, 5pm, 8pm, Utah vs BYU, from 1992, BYU-TV

Sat July 28, 630pm, 930pm, Utah vs BYU, from 1994, BYUTV

Saturuday July 28, 2pm, Pan American Games Live on ESPN!

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Documentaries and more

College Sports year in review repeats at least once a day on Fox College Sports from July 16 to July 25.

Mon July 16, 6pm, 7pm, 1030pm, 230am, In Focus on FSN featuring the Michigan Fab Five, on FSN at 6pm at 230am, and on Fox College Sports the other two times.

Mon July 16, 5pm, 9pm, Championships of the NCAA, CSTV

Tue July 17, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Wedn July 18, 930am, NCAA on Campus, ESPN Classic

Thur July 19, 7pm, 7am (Fri), Whatever happened to Michael Ray (Richardson), 1 hour, NBA-TV

Thur July 19, 9pm, 10pm, Basketball Showmen: The Harlem Globetrotters, 1 hour doc on NBA-TV.

SEC TV has its own best of basketball highlight episode. Air times: thur july 19 at 330pm and 730pm, fri june 20 at 630am, 1030am, 4pm, sat june 21 at 230am and 830am. All on Fox College Sports. I assume it will also be shown on local FSN stations in SEC markets. Stories featured on the best of basketball: Davis Nwankwo of Vandy, Bruce Pearl and Tennesee, Mindy Price of Ole Miss, and the women's SEC conference tournament championship.

Sat July 21,4am thru 3pm, Hardwood Heavens marathon on MojoHD (formerly INHD). High definition tuner and subscription required. Hardwood Heavens is a 30 minute edit of longer documentaris of some on the most storied arenas in college basketball.

A 30-minute program called "2007 ACIS championships" will be airing multiple times on Fox College Sports. I do not know what it is, but it will be airing almost daily. Check local listings as they are way too many to post here.

ACC All Access has a best of basketball highlight episode. Air times: sun july 22, tue july 24, wedn july 25, friday july 27. All on Fox College Sports. I assume it will also be shown on local FSN stations in ACC markets. Stories featured in the best of basketball: The one and only Ivory Latta, the inspirational story of Kay Yow, Rayshawn Terry of North Carolina and the prehistoric Cameron Open Door Stadium at Duke.

Mon July 23, 2pm, 1130pm, On the road with James Bates, at UNLV talking with Lon and Kevin Kruger, CSTV

Tue July 24, 430pm, Pistol Pete Diaries on Fox College Sports

Fri July 27, 1pm, 1130pm, On the road with James Bates, at UNLV talking with Lon and Kevin Kruger, CSTV

Fri July 27, 2006-2007 NCAA Year in Review, on ESPN2.

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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.

Basketball Diaries on Sundance

Hoosiers on AMC

He got Game on Starz Black

Harvard Man on Showtime and TMC family of channels

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

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

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).

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Weekend update

Featured Story: DeCourcy says Duke will remain an exclusive club, despite the transfers of Jamal Boykin (good job in ejecting before it was too late) and Eric Boetang and Josh Mecha-Roberts (NBA 2nd rounder with 2-year contract). Coach Krapola wants his precious Puke program to remain an exclusive club. He doesn't want to bring in a dozen kids for visits. Just five is fine for him. Also of interest are the numerous comments written response to DeCourcy's story by viewers like you.

MSNBC's Beyond the Arc profiles Gatorade player of the year Kevin Love of Lake Oswego and UCLA.

Added some links on the incoming freshmen in the Gigantic 2007-2008 preview of links

A new gigantic post of player and class rankings in under way at Recruiting Wars. It will attempt to collect as many links to players and class rankings for the classes of 2007, 2008, 2009 and beyond.

Mike DeCourcy picks the PanAm Games roster. There are only 12 spots, so DeCourcy is letting go of Sharron Collins, Joey Dorsey and Jerell McNeal. So which 12 did he pick? Click and find out - if you care :) But if you are a big fan of DeCourcy, read everything he wrote

Dick Hoops Weiss also talks about the PanAm team

A Sea of Blue continues its six-part SEC series preview with Arkansas and Florida.

Also at A Sea of Blue a story on Oklahoma, the NCAA and violations

Coaching carousel updates by Goodman: Ronnie Thompson resigns from Ball State, Cuonzo Martin (Purdue assistant) is a candidate to replace him, a prep coach will follow two of his players at Duquesne. New Mexico and Xavier are also picking up two AAU coaches once they are done with the July camps. Interesting eh?

Truth about Duke uncovers a story on Brian Zoubek and Duke

As expected the fallout from Al Farouq Aminu's commitment to SKip Forest of Wake Prosser continues with stories by Dick Hoops Weiss and Goodman of FoxSports. Goodman makes a case that Wake Forest will rise to the top of the ACC if all these players show up and stay in school.

Lots of updates from the CAA at the CAAHoops blog

Big East updates from the Big East Basketball Repor(t)

ACC updates from the ACC BAsketBlog


Thanks for the link!

Thanks for the link A Sea of Blue!. A Sea of Blue covers Kentucky, the SEC and college hoops in general.

Thanks for the link GTSports blog!. The GTSports blog covers Georgia Tech Sports.

Thanks for the link to the Grizzoulian, qa website covering Big Sky Conference news!

Thanks for the link Kentucky Ink!.

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Friday Night Lights!

It's not easy to come up with titles on days without any dramatic news!

More reaction to Al-Farouq Aminu's decision at the GTSports blog

More recruiting stuff at Recruiting Wars, probably the worse basketball blog ever.

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From the Archives: What is a K-Zombie?

This was posted in April 2006 but I still think it is still very relevant today. Here is the text:

What is a K-Zombie?

A K-Zombie is a basketball player at Duke whose life energy is drained by Coach K, thus becoming a K-Zombie. Just look into the Duke's players eyes and you will see the effects of this - they have become K-Zombies! A recent example: Sean Dockery. Some of them are able retain some of their life energy, others are not. The clever ones transfer or bolt for the NBA before it's too late :-)

Ole Roy ain't that good?

In the "what have you done for me lately" world of sports, Ole Roy is in trouble. Part of it maybe a spillover from the meltdown against Georgetown in the Elite 8, part of it is because he signed no one in 2007, and part of it is because he hasn't signed many and lost a handful of high profile verbals for 2008. So, the sky is falling... Or is it?

I'm sure Ole Roy knew that at least one of his prized freshmen would have bolted out. I mean, you didn't need to be a rocket scientist or Marty Blake to figure out that Branda Wright was a top 10 lottery pick. He also had one scholarship to give from graduating senior (Rayshawn Terry). Wes Miller was not on a scholarship in 2006-2007. But in typical Ole Roy fashion, he earmarked just a few players and that was it. Kevin Love went to UCLA (good personality match with Ben Howland, Kevin Love actually enjoys playing in slugfests). So that was it for 2007 for Ole Roy. He's done this at Kansas as well, and that frustrated Jayhawks fans even when they were madly in love with Ole Roy.

Bob Gibbons is quoted in the story below saying: "Blue heaven is a bit cloudy in recruiting". Superscout Dave Telep says "it creates a sense of urgency". Let's not forget the last time Ole Roy had an atypical roster talent-wise he did one of the best coaching jobs of his career.

So what happened? Has the Georgetown meltdown exposed Ole Roy to potential recruits? Or is this just cyclical stuff, accenuated (I was told to use this word, I don't know what it means or how to spell it) by Ole Roy's practice of only selecting a handful of players to recruit and that's it?

I think it's more the latter than the former, but reasonable minds can differ. But I'm not the one drunk or high ;-)

Story in the Charlotte Observer by Ken Tysiac.

ps> if this looks familiar, it is cross-posted at Recruiting Wars

Al-Farouq Aminu decides on Wake Forest!

A big surprise perhaps, but a much needed boost for Wake Forest and Skip Prosser. He not only gets Aminu, but he also gets fellow Georgina center Tony Woods. More at Recruiting Wars

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Added two links to comprehensive transfer lists and trackers at the gigantic 2007-2008 season preview with links

Mike DeCourcy boldly goes where very few national writers dare to go: Say something really negative without sugar coating: Class 2008 stinks.

More recruiting links at Recruiting Wars

The 144 previews at CHN continue with Albany, Indiana State and Penn State

A new article at A Sea of Blue revisits the last couple of seasons and looks forward to the upcoming season(s)

Brian Zoubek fo the Dookies has foot surgery

Ball State AD said coach Thompson not going anywhere. One of these national writers should write a "Tale of Two Brothers" spotlighting the last couple of seasons of JT3 and Ronnie. Probably won't make Big John happy with such a story though.

Andy Katz returns to Insider-blogging . The free part of the story talks about Mark Gottfried's proposal to create two 10-day recruiting breaks, where coaches won't be allowed to recruit, and be forced to *Gasp* do something else. What does the for-pay part of the story say? I have no clue.

An early look to the 2008 NBA Draft!

Aspiring coaches, learn by visiting Men's Basketball Hoop Scoop. More on coaching from the Hoop's Coach, and at Player Development

News from the Big East with emphasis on recruiting at the Big East Basketball Repor(t)

Lots of ACC updates in the ACC Basket Blog

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

Mid-week report

The 144-part series of previews at CHN continues with Penn State, Cal State Fullerton (the Harvard of SoCal) and Miami of Ohio. Great feature by the good people at CHN!

Lots of new news at Goodman's blog. Topics covered: OJ Mayo mania in LA, U19 team updates, Rex Walters rumors, Zoubek, Cem Dinc, AJ Ratliff, and lots more!

Lots of recruiting updates from various sources at Recruiting Wars

Big Brother is watching but who is watching Big Brother? (Big Brother in this case being the NCAA). Parrish writes about a Coaches' advisor running summer team.

The AD carousel is spinning, the Florida State AD, who is also a presenter of the schools tv magazine sports show is leaving in 2009

Speaking of carousels, here is a recap of the coaching carousel so far

Pairings for the 2nd Hall of Fame challenge have been announced. Event added to Gigantic 2007-2008 preview of links

More trouble in Missouri but you can't blame Quin Snyder for it. Or can you?

A George Mason recruit gets in trouble

To balance the troubles with some good karma, here are the latest good news in sports

For those who missed it, here is my semi-incoherent quasi-rant on ESPNU, Comcast and the Big Ten Network


Thanks for the links!

Thanks to The Extrapolater blog for the link to this blog, which appeared in the guest writer column by M. Litos of the CAAHoops blog and The Rise of Mid-major basketball book

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Life in the D-League

The NBDL (aka NBA's D-League) is having its pre-draft camp in Arlington, Texas, July 28 to 29, 2007. The actual NBDL draft usually takes place during the first week of November, but I haven't seen a date for this year.

Monday Night Hoops (Mid-Major Writers Edition)

Mid-majors of the world unite and take over! CAA author trades books with MAC author. What am I talking about? Michael Litos wrote a book on George Mason and the CAA, Cinderella: Inside the Rise of Mid Major College Basketball, focusing on the year George Mason made their dream run to the Final Four. Meanwhile, Ray Mernagh wrote "1 Chance 2 Dance:A Season Inside Mid-Major Hoops In Mid-America" (currently not listed at Amazon), focusing on a season of Mid-American Conference (MAC) basketball.

Speaking of George Mason they lose assistant coach Scott Cherry to Darrin Horn and Western Kentucky

Meanwhile Van(ce) Coleman at CSTV publishes the top 42 recruiting classes of 2007. Some familiar places and some new coaches making a splash in his list. Three big ten teams in the top 10, so maybe they'll play more offense and less slugfest :-) The next John Beilein (Jerry Weinwright) is in the top 10. Highly recommended!

The gigantic 2007-2008 season preview has been updated with some of the most popular preseason tournaments, along with a handful of pre-season rankings by various website.

The weekly tv listings have been updated. Check the post below for all the details. Also look for a link to games that pertain more to recruiting.

Goodman's blog talks about Kelvin 500 calls Sampson hitting the road again, Rick Barnes and John Grisham (???), a sneak peek at next year's Ohio State's starting line-up, Oden fouling everyone at the NBA Summer League. Meanwhile Jeff Capel kicks an incoming freshman off the team, rather ...early (former teammate of OJ Mayo and Patrick Patterson)! More updates from Goodman: LeBron makes more than an appearance at his own event, Nigel Munson transferring out of Va Tech, Tubby Smith and Billy Clyde Gillispie sitting next to each other, and Josh Mecha-Roberts got a two-year contract by the Portland NotJailblazers-AnyMore. Check his blog for all the details.

A Sea of Blue has a round of the latest happenings with emphasis on recruiting.

A number of recruiting updates from Dick Hoops Weiss

The season previews keep coming at CHN's 144-part series with Miami of Ohio, Hampton and Bucknell being the latest teams previewed. You know we are getting close to the new season when the CHN previews start coming out!

New Orleans (the university) finds a new head coach according to CBS Sportsline Gary Parrish. Who is he? an assistant from Cal-Berkeley.

Play the Right way talks about making good choices

New positive stories in sports have been posted at Good News in Sports

More news than you can digest at CSTV's Headlines Archive.

This does not look good for Cal, tiny Jerome Randle and wing Patrick Christopher attempted to scare people using a shiny silver cellphone? Maybe the fumes from all the "smoking of herbs" in Berkeley got to them ;-) This does not look good though.

One transfers out of Martelliville

Thanks for the links!

Thanks for the link to Double T Nation, a website covering all things Texas Tech

Also thanks for the link to this brand new blog, First and Long covering the world of sports.

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