Kelvin Sampson One Year Ban

Kelvin Sampson's One Year Bar is sort of a ban since he is allowed to text message recruits. Don't miss ESPN's Outside the Lines coverage of this topic this Sunday morning.

As you may recall, Kelvin Sampson was heading the college basketball coaches assocation and featured a conference on ethics (!!!). Sampson's violations were not of the innocent type (eg Majerus buying a player a sandwich). Sampsons staff made hundreds of additional recruiting calls. Hundreds!

It looks like the ghost of Bob Knight's Legacy may be haunting Indiana for years to come...

Wednesday Rewind

Thanks to the DavidsonBasketball blog for their reference in their blog!

Speaking of NC State, Seth Davis has a long writeup on the situation at NC State. Hard times in Raleigh

If you missed OJ Mayo's recent game on FSN at the King James Shooting Stars Classic, you can catch a rerun at Fox College Sports. Check local listings for details as it varies from region to region. OJ Mayo exploded in the 2nd quarter, essentially ending the game right there.

Rumor has it super-speedy PG Devon Downey is heading to South Carolina. Dave Odom's domination of the post season NIT may end in 2007-08 as Downey will likely lead the team to the NCAA tourney :-)

The matchups for the 2006 ACC-Big Eleven Challenge have been setup! The super-star matchup will feature the two best recruiting classes of 2006: North Carolina hosting Ohio State. Whoever set this up is very very clever! This is gonna be an awesome game! Set your VCRs and TiVos to record this already :-) Puke will host Indiana and new coach Kelvin Sampson. The 3rd biggest match is Maryland at Illinois.

How about some college basketball on TV right now? Starting May 7, ESPN-Classic will be airing a classic game every Sunday night at 11pm, starting with the 83 Houston-NCState game.

ABC will broadcast the "EA Sports All American Show" on May 14, featuring talented athletes of various sports, including basketball.

CBS will have a basketball related episode of the series "Close to Home" on May 5.

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Current list of NBA Draft entries

NBA Draft 2006 early entries at Yahoo Sports

Rejected by Lavin?

The NC State job opening is turning into the biggest soap of the summer so far, surpassing both the Indiana and the Oklahoma dramas.

Even Steve Lavin rejected the NC State job? Is that true?

Some NC State fans thought the NC State job was too good for Herb Sendek. Sendek was not good enough for them? Well, from the looks of it, perhaps it was the other way round after all: Herbie was too good for NC State?

I think a reasonable hire for NC State would be Bob McKillop. Being at a bigger stage he would be able to get even more talented recruits and leverage his domestic and international connections...

Who is in the draft now?

As we get closer to the April 29 - the deadline for entry into the 2006 NBA draft, the list of players declaring grows longer and longer.

Some of the college juniors (rising seniors) are declaring simply as a means of "interviewing with the NBA" without hiring an agent and intent on returning to college unless they are guaranteed a high pick or a first-round contract.

ESPN has more resources than I have, so instead of me trying to keep track of them all, here is what ESPN has: Early entries in the 2006 NBA draft

SMU makes a big mistake...

SMU makes a big mistake by hiring walking-disaster Matt Doherty. Matt Doherty had flash-in-the-pan success at both Notre Dame and North Carolina but when the dust settled the truth came out: he is a walking disaster. If you saw him as an analyst on CSTV the previous two years, you would have gotten confirmation of that.

He was able to survive at North Carolina as long as he did because he was Jordan's friend and he played on a national championship team with Dean Smith. If he did not have those connections, he would have been kicked to the curb a lot earlier.

This post may sound harsh, but scoreboard does not lie...

Big 10 Rivals in 2006-07

Brad Sturdy of the Rivals.com network takes a sneak peek at the Big 10 Rivals in 2006-07. Story featured at Yahoo Sports.

Their list is sorted alphabetically.

My sleeper Big 10 recruit for 06-07 is .... Bryce Webster of Minnessooottttaaa.

Keep in mind I was wrong for 05-06 when I predicted Krabbenkroft of Wisconsin to have major impact :-)

CSTV and Mountain West make history!

CSTV and the Mountain West conference make history by launching the first single-conference super regional tv network to cover the MWC.

Cleverly named "the mtn" - not to be confused with mtv - it will carry 36 football games, 150 basketball games and 200+ olympic sports.

The press release can be found here

Shoe Wars: AND 1

While the big boys are battling it out, AND 1 has the following NCAA Division 1 schools: Penn, Pacific, Wyoming, Charleston and La Salle. Nike and Adidas/Reebok need not worry, but they have to start from somewhere :-)

http://www.and1.com/section/team

Today's News

Fun times up ahead at Pepperdine. The Fresno City College coach, famous for teaching his offense to Calipari and Memphis has taken up the Pepperdine job. A collective sigh of relief from some fans worried that Jim Harrick was circling around the area like a vulture :-)

Adam Morrison officially enters his name into the NBA Draft with the blessings of Mark Few and Gonzaga

Leon the Show Powe also enters the draft but will not sign with an agent

Andy Katz wonders what happened to Calipari and NCState in his blog

Former ASU assistant Brooks Thompson takes over at UT-San Antonio.

A bad back is ending the career of former UConn forward Marcus White (now at Purdue) :-(

Can't wait for the next season? Watch the future stars of tomorrow today: FSN and FCS (Fox College Sports) will be airing the championship game of the King James Shooting Stars Classic. Among others participating is the AAU team of OJ Mayo. The game airs live on April 29, but in some areas it will air tape-delayed later on. As always check local listings as both FSN and FCS are regionally aligned and programming varies from state to state and region to region. http://msn.foxsports.com/id/5492010

What is a K-Zombie?

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 :-)