12/5/2025 Charles Barkley and Dickie V are calling the 12/13 IU v UK game. I’m guessing it will be both turrible and awesome, baby. 11/30/2025 Working on a song for Purdue. Here's what I have so far: “My center has a first name. It’s O-S-C-A-R. My guard has a second name. It’s M-A-Y-E-R." 11/27/2025 ESPN Headline: Houston Lands Diane. Yet the article had no comment from Sam Malone. 11/25/2025 A BYU player was arrested for possession of pot. He has not been told if he’s going

12/7/2025 In League With Creighton Week 5:  Team From an Imaginary Western After Creighton’ 20-point-win against Nicholls State on Tuesday night, I had an idea for an absolute corker of a column.  They had a big in-state rivalry game against Nebraska on Sunday night and I was feeling good about their chances.  Sure, they only beat a winless team from the Southland Conference by 20 points, but Nicholls was a scrappy bunch who has hung in most of their games this year without a

12/7/2025 🤠 Aggies' Hoops Hype XL: From Arlington Rally to Vegas Rodeo! Well, howdy, Aggie faithful! You could cut the tension at College Park Center with a dull butter knife yesterday as the Texas A&M men's basketball team faced off against the SMU Mustangs in the "Hoop Hype XL" showdown. And when I say "showdown," I mean a proper, white-knuckle, "grab-yer-hat-and-hold-on-tight" kind of affair! The first half? Let's just say it was about as fun as a root canal without the l

12/7/2025 Good Week for Duke Duke began the week with a hard fought, 1-point win over defending national champion Florida, 67-66.  Cameron Boozer continued his strong play, scoring 29 points to lead Duke.  Patrick Ngongba also turned in a strong performance, scoring 11 points along with 5 boards, 5 assists and 5 blocks – an impressive all-around game.  Although Duke did a good job of limiting Florida big-man Alex Condon, Duke could not stop Florida’s Thomas Hough, who scored

12/7/2025 In what was one of the most impressive wins, if not the most impressive of this 25-26 season, Iowa State hung a 23 point burger on #1 Purdue at West Lafayette Saturday afternoon 81-58. As for Saturday, apologies for getting this wrong in last week's issue for mentioning it was a Sunday Tilt. Additionally Saturday at 12:00? Seriously, at the same time as the Big 12 championship game. Now of course Iowa State was not involved in that; but what if they were like last s

12/7/2025 You may not know the name Jason Bradley DeFord, but my guess is you know him by his stage name–Jelly Roll. During the Illini’s only game this week, against a 13th-ranked Tennessee at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, the broadcast team was joined by the Tennessee native and country music star. Instead of giving the play-by-play, the announcers peppered Jelly Roll with questions for several minutes in the first half, and the singer didn’t disappoint. He talked abou

12/7/2025 12/7/2025 I cleaned my room today (See, Mom, I can be responsible on my own.)  Which of these five items was not lying astray in my room (the answer is at the bottom of the column): 40 individual pieces of uncooked pasta spread across a table A slip dress with numerous pictures of Sigmund Freud safety-pinned on A caseless CD of Pink Floyd’s The Wall  Three separate socks that had mysteriously lost their matching pair  An unopened bag of carrots sitting in my fridge

12/7/2025 TCU basketball giveth and TCU basketball taketh (my good mood away). After riding high after a tournament win in San Diego over 2 tournament-level teams, they dropped a hard-fought battle against Notre Dame, 87-85 in overtime. An emphasis is definitely placed on hard-fought, as it shocked me to see a game between Christian private schools look like a WWE cage match. Getting bullied in this street fight sunk the Frogs, as they got outrebounded by 8. The perimeter def

12/5/2025 Mixed emotion week for the Kentucky faithful……on one hand, the University decided to FINALLY move on from Mark Stoops as the head man in the football offices, after 13 years at the helm lacking any form of creativity on offense, akin to a blindfolded man searching for an exit; only to have the Big Blue Nation get beat midweek by the hated Tar Heels, followed by being run out of the gym at Rupp South by Gonzaga, on Friday Night in NashVegas by 35 points, the worst UK

12/7/2025 UNC Greensboro Report Week 5:  Up on the Downside Edition UNC Greensboro came into the week needing to get a win.  They had fallen to 1-8, but had not played particularly poorly to start the year.  However, the “Team Sybil” vibe is very real with them and it has been hard to guess what version of the Spartans were going to come out from half-to-half.  Consistency for 40 minutes was key this week. Also, getting a win was huge, because as much as they believe they can

12/7/2025 A tale of two sides for sure. Before the game, the Spiders had a 97% chance to win. Half way through the 4th quarter, the percentages were swapped. The smaller team shot 66% from the 3 point line, securing Fairfield's victory 93-73. It was their only chance to win and it worked. David 1 and Goliath 0. Learn and move on! Doogan, again, led the lady Spiders as high scorer.  11/29/2025 The Lady Spiders played TCU and Green Bay on a neutral court in Cancun over Thanksgi

12/7/2025 You know what really grinds my gears? Thanksgiving break. I mean, time off is nice, but you’re telling me I need to come back and immediately begin preparing for finals? At that point just keep me here at school. Now that’s off my chest, let’s look at the A-10 this weekend.  Friday saw one game take place: an uneventful contest as VCU crushed Samford at home, 83-57. The 6-3 record shouldn’t fool anyone; the Rams are a tough team that have played a host of solid team

12/7/2025 The Kennesaw State Report Week 4:  Breeding Lilacs Out of a Dead Land Edition British novelist JG Ballard once infamously began his 1975 classic tale of societal decay and dysthymia “High Rise” with the words “Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.”  As I drove onto the Kennesaw State campus for the Saturday tilt agains

12/6/2025 Coach Crowley stole his 400th win on the road at LeMoyne 66-57.  The Lady Bonnies held the lead for over 38 minutes of the contest.  Bonnies Laycee Drake and Aaliyah  Parker scored 21 and 20 points.  This hasn't happened since 2022.  Let's hope that the team can get some more games with this tremendous effort. Those pesky Dolphins did not want to go away and continued to try and push the Bonnies out to sea.   The Dolphins cut the lead to as close as one in the fourt

11/30/2025 Like most average white middle class Americans, I have a lot to be thankful for.  Providence's Thanksgiving Day performance is not one of them.  After getting dog-walked by Wisconsin on Thursday 104-83, they were rewarded by getting matched up with #10 Florida on Friday.  That's right, remember them? They won the national championship last year. So of course they lost that game too.  I am thankful I did not watch either game.  Thursday is football day, shame on the

11/30/2025 Notre Dame had a busy “feast” week with three games in the Players Era Championship. They went 1-2 with losses to Kansas and Houston wrapped around a win over Rutgers.  In other news, the NCAA recently announced that "After a procedural 30-day period, two-thirds of Division I member schools have voted to rescind a previously approved rule change that would have allowed student-athletes and athletics department staff members to legally participate in sports betting

11/30/2025 There’s something amiss in Dayton’s kitchen. Head Coach Anthony Grant earned his Michelin Star in 2020 with a top-5 Flyer team. Now, it looks like he can’t turn on a stove.  Despite a good Thanksgiving feast, Flyer fans are left with a bad taste in their mouths.  “Not a good coach,” and “didn’t have to be so painful,” were phrases that appeared on my texts this week as Dayton routinely built leads and lost them. Against Marquette November 19, the Flyers gave up a 1

11/9/2025 11/30/2025 The Big East felt it got snubbed by the tourney committee last year. So this year they entered with 3 teams in the top 25 and two in the top 5.  5 weeks later, it looks like the committee has the last laugh, as the conference is not getting it done. One team dropped completely out and St John's has gone from 5 down to 14.  The only team holding its own is UConn, which is fitting, since that was the message the league sent to the tournament selection commi

11/30/2025 I am still feeling pretty good about what I have seen so far this year from the Bonnies. And - I have actually been able to SEE them! Living outside Phoenix, Arizona it is somewhat of a rare occurrence to have a St. Bonaventure game available to watch, but that has been the case for three of the last four games. I am highly recommending Fubo these days. The Fort Myers Tip Off tournament put the Bonnies up against the North Carolina Tar Heels. Both teams were undefe

11/28/2025 After a 5-0 start, the Orangemen lost their way in Vegas. They managed to go 0-3 against teams from the former Big 8 (is it now 10, 12, 14, 16, or more?). They lost by ever larger margins as the tournament went along. Tuesday brings Tennessee and a chance for redemption--or another double-digit defeat. 10/31/2025 Syracuse basketball tips off on Nov. 3 against the mighty Binghamton University Bearcats (what the Hell's a Bearcat?) to open a new season. Hope springs e

11/23/2025 TL;DR    Friday night hoops - USC without the great JuJu (Watkins). Notre Dame with tons of (the good kind of) juju. Up and down the season goes. And we are only five games in. No. 24 Notre Dame bounced back from getting throttled last weekend by Michigan to stun No. 11 Southern Cal, 61-59, in South Bend. Hannah Hidalgo was the hero with 22 points including a clutch mid-range bucket with less than two seconds left. The defense was outstanding all night for the Iris

11/23/2025 Before I begin my column responding to Davidson’s victory over Boston College, I would like to mention that BC is my editor’s alum and fellow writer Sadie Barend’s college, so I may temper my reaction to avoid upsetting anyone here at CBT. So with that in mind: ahem LET’SSSS GOOOOO WOOOO HOLY MOLY ME OH MY, THAT’S A WIN OVER A POWER FIVE SCHOOL! WE ARE SUCH A BETTER BASKETBALL SCHOOL THAN BC COULD EVER HOPE TO BE. SERIOUSLY, WHAT DOES THE BC STAND FOR? BASKETBALL C

11/15/2025 The Catamounts continued their winning ways this week by defeating Brown University. Overcoming the Ivy League school was difficult. UVM took a Princeton Review course to prepare for the SAT, tried their hand at the ACT, hired a writing coach to help them craft their college essay, and applied early decision. 11/11/2025 The Catamounts kicked off the regular season with victories over Western New England and Plattsburgh State. Thus far, Vermont has won 100% of their

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