The Latest at CHJ: Eight fateful minutes

  • Mike Muscala, Darryl Shazier

    Mike Muscala: The Patriot League’s Top Two-Way Star

    BETHLEHEM, Pa. — It’s easy to look at the statsheet and see Lehigh’s C.J. McCollum’s gaudy scoring totals and think, How can McCollum NOT be the Patriot League Player of the Year? Then you watch McCollum and Bucknell’s Mike Muscala square off in the league’s highest profile conference matchup and it becomes clear: McCollum is [...]

  • NCAA BASKETBALL: FEB 14 Louisville at Syracuse

    Enough (Recruiting) is Enough

    This is a plea. A desperate call for sanity. An end to the violence and bloodshed (metaphorically speaking). After much debate and negotiation, it is time to make this declaration: Basketball coaches have enough tools to recruit. Starting with the introduction of the Academic Progress Rate, coaches have been responsible for retaining the players they [...]

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    Exclusive excerpt from The Unlikeliest Champion

    Young, talented writer Aaron Torres has already written a book on the 2011 title-winning UConn Huskies. You can buy the book now, and you’ll want to do that for anyone you know who’s a fan of the game or the Huskies in general. CollegeHoopsJournal.com’s editor/founder/publisher, Matt Norlander, was asked to write the foreword on it. [...]

  • Tim Frazier

    How and where the best passers get help

    Everyone thinks they know the best way to rack up a bunch of assists: Play fast, surround yourself with a bunch of talented scorers and let the dimes pile up like Scrooge McDuck’s vault. The best playmakers though don’t just benfit from the talent around them. They also raise their teammates up. Who is doing [...]

  • 2011 NBA Draft

    MLS Has Solved NBA and NCAA Age Debate

    When should a basketball player enter the NBA draft? The short answer is when he is ready. The NBA has decided that for an American basketball player, it is impossible for him to be ready prior to the year he turns 19 and is one year out of high school. Or at least it is [...]

  • Chace Stanback, Carlos Lopez

    UNLV is down with OPP (Other Programs’ Players)

    The first number anyone looks at after a basketball game is the score. During Feast Week, the Top 25 poll was rewritten in this fashion: UNLV 90 – North Carolina 80. Those numbers were stunning enough. North Carolina has been the swaggering bully atop the polls and in the minds of aficianados since the end of [...]

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Summit Scorers

If you casually glance at a list of the national leaders in points per game this year, it’s likely that most of the names will be unfamiliar to you. There are no Jimmers or Kembas this season, no guys who score a bunch of points for nationally prominent teams. Sure, Damian Lilliard and Doug McDermott [...]

NCAA BASKETBALL: FEB 14 Louisville at Syracuse

Enough (Recruiting) is Enough

This is a plea. A desperate call for sanity. An end to the violence and bloodshed (metaphorically speaking). After much debate and negotiation, it is time to make this declaration: Basketball coaches have enough tools to recruit. Starting with the introduction of the Academic Progress Rate, coaches have been responsible for retaining the players they [...]

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Examining the Soul of Harvard Basketball

As I drove toward the Monmouth Athletic Center on a mild January night, I certainly did not expect to be ruminating on the soul of the Harvard basketball team. Harvard has received all sorts of national accolades this season on its way to a 12-2 start, while Monmouth had struggled to a 3-13 mark under [...]

Tim Frazier

How and where the best passers get help

Everyone thinks they know the best way to rack up a bunch of assists: Play fast, surround yourself with a bunch of talented scorers and let the dimes pile up like Scrooge McDuck’s vault. The best playmakers though don’t just benfit from the talent around them. They also raise their teammates up. Who is doing [...]

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