According to Hank Nichols, the NCAA national coordinator of men’s basketball officiating, refs are making a concerted effort this year to call hand checking and stiff arms. I haven’t noticed the difference so much, but the players say the can tell the difference. With so many good, aggressive guards in the ACC this year, this…

We all know that for all the talk about coaches, it’s really talent that wins and loses in college basketball. The greatest coach in the world isn’t going to build a top ten team out of a bunch of scrubs. A poster at TheSabre.com wrote up a great piece breaking down the talent at each…

Check out the ending of this game between UMKC and Chicago State University. Simply incredible. (and don’t miss the roughly fourteen steps the guy takes before the tying shot)

I’m not getting something here. The Duke Chronicle, like most college papers, is independent. It has no official connection with the school, so it can print articles that might be deemed offensive, critical or in poor taste. That independence and the edgy tone that many college rags seek doesn’t begin to explain this article. It’s…

When you study law, they often teach priciples by exploring the gray areas. You’ll learn a law, like it’s illegal to kill unless it’s self defense. Then you’ll explore the boundaries by looking at cases where maybe a man is attacked by another man and he shoots him. If the orginal attacker didn’t have a…

Surely you saw the clip a few days ago of that 85-foot shot that won a basketball game for Guilford College? Well, a local news crew asked him to try to replay the shot. They gave him sixteen tries, and damn if he didn’t hit it again! Can’t back off of Jordan Snipes.

Mark Cuban has a pretty interesting statistical article up showing just how valuable the three from the corner is in the NBA. The three point line on the sides is shorter than the top, with the corner being the closest. Cuban’s stats show that the league hits 37.6% from the corner vs. 33.6% from the…

I’ve somehow missed this story, but it’s a good one. There’s a federal trial going on in Memphis where a high school coach has testified to collecting $150,000 to steer a football player to Alabama. But wait, it doesn’t end there. He also took money from Kentucky (who says they don’t care about football?) and…

The ACC Hoops Blog did me a service today. They found Barry Jacobs. Apparently, he wasn’t really missing; I just didn’t know he was writing for TarHeelDaily.com, a site I didn’t know about. It’s kind of odd, because I always thought that Jacobs was a Duke alumnus. For the younger readers, Barry Jacobs used to…

Yoni Cohen’s College Basketball blog is an amazing collection of links and stories from all over college basketball. I have no idea how he’s able to find so many stories from so many different sources. Hopefully Yoni’s a pseudonym so his employer can’t figure out what he’s doing with his time. I get a decent…