A look at each of the remaining unbeatens, ordered by rank in the Pomeroy ratings (yeah, so that’s not too self-serving)… Illinois 9-0 (Pomeroy rank: 1)Best performance to date: 12/1 beat Wake Forest 91-73, but it wasn’t nearly that close.Worst Performance: 12/9 beat Georgetown 74-59 in a game that was tied with four minutes remaining…in […]

I’m planning to do a running diary on the TCU/Kansas game tonight.  It could well be a blowout, but TCU was one of my sleeper teams at the beginning of the season, so I should get to know them better. One edge TCU has on KU is depth – they have 9 players averaging double […]

On Monday, USC coach Henry Bibby became the first head coach to be fired this season. And on Wednesday, Jim Saia became the first interim head coach to lose a game this season, as USC fell to Fresno State 71-68 at the Sports Arena. It’s been hashed and rehashed about how the timing of the […]

The Syracuse/Oklahoma State game was a big dud. I don’t care how much people want to talk about great defense, the big game last night was a replay of the 2002 NCAA Final between Maryland and Indiana, especially for the first 30 minutes. With all of that talent on the court, someone should have been […]

Average possessions per game (2004-05) (Ranked by slowest) 1) Air Force (53.2)2) Princeton (54.1)3) Samford (58.4)4) Georgetown (58.7)5) Utah State (59.6) When Georgetown hired John Thompson III last spring, I guess I didn’t really think things through. Sure, it made sense for him to succeed Craig Esherick. The Hoyas had fallen on hard times. So […]

Items of note from the weekend… Loyola of Maryland beat Niagara 97-89 on Sunday. It was kind of an ugly game. Loyola had more free throws (53) than field goal attempts (51), the first time that’s happened in any D1 game this year. Niagara had three players foul out and five more that finished with […]

Last night (correction: game was Tuesday), Florida International coughed up the ball 26 times against UConn. This was more than any single UConn opponent turned the ball over last season. In 15 of their 39 games last season, Huskies opponents committed fewer than 10 turnovers, and only twice did their opponents cough the ball up […]

The Columbia at Hofstra game tonight was cancelled due to the Columbia bus being stuck in what is termed "heavy traffic" in the AP story. This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill Columbia-Hofstra game either. It was 4-0 Hofstra against 3-1 Columbia. Hofstra is two wins away from becoming bowl eliglible, and a representative from the Las Vegas […]

Dear Diary, Why is ESPN so obsessed with former coaches as studio hosts? Manning the ESPN studios for this game are Chris Fowler, Digger Phelps, and Mike Jarvis. They’ve also had Steve Lavin and Rick Majerus in the studio this season. It’s totally the opposite approach they have for college football where Trev Alberts, Mark […]

Ohio University opened its season last night by hosting San Francisco, becoming the last team to play a real game. Ohio usually is one of the last teams to tip-off their season. This is because they are on a wacky quarter system where exams fall on the week before Thanksgiving. For you youngsters out there, […]