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Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski could have coached Kobe Bryant in college, but he’s glad he didn’t get the opportunity.
It’s nothing personal with Bryant. Krzyzewski believes talented high school players should be allowed to go to the NBA. Read more…
The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS reports the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled that a jury should hear the case of former Iona basketball coach Craig Holcomb, who claims that he was dismissed from his job at the college because Holcomb, who is white, married a black woman.
The appellate court ruled that a lower court was wrong in throwing out the case and that the case will see trial. Holcomb was fired in 2004 after he refused to resign. He is now a gym teacher at a New York high school.
Most people know that the University of Tennessee has a football team, a women’s basketball team, and some even know they have a curling team. But men’s basketball team? R… Really? Hey, how about that.
One has to hope Bruce Pearl and his band of men don’t have an inferiority complex while brandishing the same orange “T” as Pat Summitt and her ladies. After all, the Lady Vols have reached the Round of 16 every year under Summitt, whereas the Dude Vols are in the Sweet 16 for the fifth time only, and they’ve never reached the Elite Eight. Read more…
A nation slept soundly knowing that a small group of fans watching the Montana State-Eastern Washington womens basketball game was reassured by 80s musical troubadour Rick Astley that he would never give them up, let them down, run around, or desert them — among other promises. Because, see, we had video evidence:
I can sense your excitement for the inaugural College Basketball Invitational from all the way over here, so please, tone it down a bit. There are children present. The Final Four (second regression) of Virginia, Tulsa, Houston, and Bradley is indeed more excitement than a non-exploding skull can handle.
(CBI isn’t free, it costs more than a buck oh-five.)
Moreover, you’re feenin’ to catch those games online. Surely a fledgling tourney wants to get their product out to the masses as easy as possible, much like the NCAA tournament does with their free streaming games online … or, you know, the CBI could also charge $7 per game for buffering goodness. Either way works. Read more…
THE SPORTS ECONOMIST catches something that I’d imagine went under everyone’s radar: the birth of yet another postseason college basketball tournament.
The College Basketball Invitational (CBI) Postseason Tournament will take 16 teams left out of the NCAA madness to have their own tournament, which will begin on Tuesday night and air on the cable network known as Fox College Sports.
Coppin State University is a historically black college based in Baltimore, with an enrollment of about 4,000 undergraduates, according to WIKIPEDIA.
And their baskeball team, with 20 losses, a losing record in the MEAC, and no notable wins, has just qualified for the NCAA tournament.
The latest cliché in sports could very well be “tornado-proof.”
After being left for dead on an Atlanta roadside, Georgia kept their season alive last night, winning their SEC semi-final game against Mississippi State, 64-60, only hours after upsetting Kentucky in overtime earlier that afternoon.
If you were waiting to see the result of the meeting between Kentucky and Georgia last night in the SEC men’s basketball tournament, keep waiting.
