11/9/2025 Kennesaw State Basketball Season Preview and Week One Report Antoine Pettway and the crew at Kennesaw State had an impressive first week to start the 2025-26 campaign.  Pettway enters his third season at the helm of a program that seems finally and mercifully headed in the right direction.  Long ago, Kennesaw State was a Division II powerhouse winning a National Championship in 2003. It looked like only a matter of time before this fast-growing Atlanta area school w

11/9/2025 The Notre Dame women’s team kicked off a season with modest expectations (ranked 15th) with a 98-52 thumping of FDU. FDU? Well, according to the Fairleigh Dickinson media notes for the game:  Note: FDU does not refer to its athletic teams as “Fairleigh Dickinson.” Please use “FDU” in all references to the Knights.  lol. That kind of attitude is not going to help them shake the nickname that their students often use: Fairly Ridiculous. - Rick Condon 3/9/2025 Notre Da

11/9/2025 College basketball before Thanksgiving - just awful; can’t get used to it. I've become my father. Give me the Great Alaskan Shootout Thanksgiving weekend over a November 3 starting date. It's getting more and more ridiculous every year. I still need time to complain how horrendous the Iowa Sate football team has been this season. Iron bowl or Michigan - Ohio State is what November is, not college basketball with heavy favorites playing Olean High School. So the Cycl

11/9/2025 The Notre Dame men’s team kicked off their season this week with two convincing wins at home; Monday night over Long Island University, 89-67, and Thursday night against Detroit Mercy, 102-70. Thursday night was “The Bend” game with ND introducing new home uniforms in tribute to the university’s host city, South Bend. I spent four years in Northern Indiana and never once heard it referred to as The Bend. So I Googled South Bend, IN nicknames to see what their option

11/7/2025 Villanova didn’t expect to face a crowd filled with BYU alum at their match-up in Las Vegas. They must have forgotten that Vegas is a great place to get married again. And again. 11/3/2025 Loyola-Chicago will be wearing a patch to honor Sister Jean. Very nice. Though I kind of think the players are going to need the use of both eyes. 10/31/2025 Despite the NCAA's ruling, Tyon Grant-Foster can play for Gonzaga after a judge slapped an injunction on them so fast it ma

11/9/2025 Ladies and gentlemen… just like Backstreet: we’re back. Like me, I am sure you all have spent every waking moment since the Davidson College Women’s Basketball season wishing for its return. I can still remember lying on the beach, wondering will Candice Lienafa have the breakout sophomore campaign we all hope for, watching Fourth of July Fireworks while imagining the deadly duo of Dunn and Donovan, absentmindedly playing pickleball with friends while envisioning Ky

11/7/2025 Reed Arena Report: Aggies Beat Texas Southern, But Only After a Collective Mid-Game Existential Crisis COLLEGE STATION, TX –  The Texas A&M Aggies defeated the Texas Southern Jaguars 104-70 on Thursday night at Reed Arena, but the final score only tells half the story—the half where the Aggies finally woke up and remembered how to play basketball. The first half, as is customary for an Aggie non-conference game, was a masterpiece of tension, missed shots, and synchr

11/9/2025 And just like that, the season’s over. I consider myself a capable writer, able to capture the emotions of a lot of things. But a Power 4 basketball team losing to a Southland Conference team that went 4-26 last year? Not enough words in the world. Just Temper Tantrums.    I’ll take a quick break from my depression pint of ice cream and scrubbing my freezing cold take of a season prediction from the Internet to explain how this happened. Horrible shooting. That’s it

11/9/2025 11/9/2025 The Big East conference kicks off at season this weekend. The games can be seen on TNT, FS1, and Peacock. Yes , the league made TV deals with three different networks. This is the college hoop equivalent of sleeping around.  It wouldn't be a stretch to change the name to The Big Easy. - Paul Nardizzi

11/9/2025 It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Not this silly “Christmas” you all keep fretting over, I mean, think about it! The Mariah Carey Christmas phase only lasts a couple months, but the Atlantic 10 men’s basketball season lasts twice that period. I rest my case. Begin investing in A-10 basketball, people!  The A-10 saw an incredible start to the year, with all their teams winning their opening contests from Monday to Wednesday. Except Fordham, who fell at

11/7/2025 n League With Creighton (2025-26 season) Week 1 The 2025-26 Creighton Blue Jay season started with a 92 to 76 win against University of South Dakota.  A convincing victory is a great way to start the season, but watching a Creighton game without the ever looming presence of Ryan Kalkbrenner is disconcerting.  Kalk was the greatest defensive player in school history by any possible metric.  He played bruising physical defense and redirected almost every shot for 169

11/8/2025 The St Bonaventure Women's Basketball team has stretched the start of the season into game two beating Niagara 74-56.  After trading the good kind of runs in the first half, Bonaventure took the lead  and never looked back.  For the second game in a row the Lady Bonnie's have shot 40%.  I'm going to start expecting this high level of shooting from this women if this continues.  It is kind of early, but hey, in the dark of daylight savings time anything can light the