Ken Pomeroy has emerged from his postseason hibernation to throw up a post today. Today’s post is about assist average and Ken says that according to his numbers, Boston College was the best passing team in the country last year. I didn’t see them play nearly enough to comment on that, but it does make…

This is rich. The NCAA is headed towards changing the rule on football scheduling to allow 12 games instead of 11. Sounds great, right? I mean that’s more football for fans and more money for the schools! But wait a second. I thought that a playoff would be Very Bad because the extra games would…

A TV station out of Raymond Felton’s hometown (well, close enough) is reporting that he’s leaving for the NBA. This isn’t really shocking news, but it’s obviously critical. Sean May has said he’s returning, but you have to wonder how he feels now. The game will be much tougher without Felton getting him the ball.…

The Duke Basketball Report has published a letter from one of their readers. The guy is a lifelong Duke fan, but if you replaced a few names, his letter could be about any school. The gist of it is that we all need to remember that the players we root for, jeer, taunt, criticize and…

Billy Packer sure brings out a lot of hate in people. For years, ACC fans were torn about him. Some loved him as an icon of the conference while others hated him for his criticism and seeming anti-UNC partisanship. It seems that the hatred has now gone national. The guys at the ACC BasketBlog have…

I missed this post from a few days ago, but apparently a reader of Ken Pomeroy’s blog pointed out something that everyone else seemed to have missed – 1975 was not the most recent time a pre-tournament #1 played a #2. Evidently, in 1975 the AP put out polls during the tournament, so when Indiana…

You know that Nigerian Cardinal who is one of the front-runners to be the next pope? (In fact, he’s the favorite according to Paddy Power, where you can bet on him at 11-4 odds.) Well, he’s the uncle of former Wake Forest guard Niki Arinze. How cool would it be to have a pope who…

Yoni has done a good job of summing up the latest rumors, news, truth and lies (you decide which is which) in the Virginia coaching search. It certainly has been pretty interesting, in large part because this is by far the biggest job out there right now. In that regard, this has been pretty good…

I haven’t gotten around to writing up my thoughts on last night’s game and its implications, but fortunately there are those with more focus than I. Al Featherston has a nice review as well as a great look at next year. He steals a bit of my thunder in his comparison between the ACC and…

In a word, no. The whole rumor that Dave Odom had been offered the Virginia job came from one careless article in the Washington Post. A few other papers mentioned that Odom was being targeted, but no others said that he’d gotten the offer. So, either the Post had scooped the hometown Charlottesville paper as…