11/18/2025 Notre Dame players are less than thrilled with “The Bend” emblazoned on the front of their jerseys. I guess they should be happy it’s not on the front of their shorts. 11/14/2025 Two players on last year’s 3-28 Miss.Valley St team have been arrested for throwing games.  But they have a solid defense: We didn’t throw games; we simply suck. 11/11/2025 TCU’s Malick Diallo announced he’s going to be out for the season. He was then informed that’s not how it works, by t

11/16/2025 Hannah Hidalgo threw a party Wednesday night on her home court. She had a program record 44 points and an NCAA record 16 steals as her Irish trounced Akron, 85-58. However, the party ended abruptly on Saturday when Notre Dame was trounced, 93-54, by No. 14 Michigan in a nationally-televised tilt at Wayne State Fieldhouse in Detroit. Hidalgo followed up her magical performance with an ugly shooting day going 4 for 21 from the field including missing all eight attemp

11/16/2025 Kennesaw State Report Week 2 (Deadbeat Dad Edition) Huge game this weekend with South Florida, but I was faced with a moral conundrum.  My son Moses is a student at Kennesaw.  He’s named after Moses Malone, but he can’t stand basketball.   This is my court appointed weekend to spend time with him, but this is a critical game and I was not planning on missing it.  Usually I take him to the zoo, but South Florida plays really exciting up tempo basketball and I’ve bee

11/16/2025 Week two of the regular season is really just a continuation of that part of the season where if your squad is any good, you should be just padding your record until the conference games start.  Of course that is not what the Friars are doing, as once again they beat a team that I didn't know had a D1 basketball team (Penn) and followed it up by losing to a team that I've heard of, but still isn't very good (Colorado).  Stefan Vaaks won "Freshman of the Week" last

11/16/2025 The legendary rock band The Who said they are done touring. The last show of their “The Song Is Over–North American Farewell Tour” took place in October in Palm Springs. I think it was time. Roger Daltrey is 81 and Pete Townshend is 80. They should be home watching the second season of the revived  Matlock  series and eating toast. Alas, I find myself humming Who songs while thinking about the Illini team two weeks into the season.  I'm not trying to cause a big s-

11/16/2025 The Dayton Flyers bounced back from a loss to Cincinnati this week with a home win over Bethune-Cookman. Although if they hadn’t found a way to bounce back from shooting 7% from three against the Bearcats, I think the Flyers would lose their status as a Division I basketball team. The Flyers fell 74-62 to their southwest Ohio rivals in the third installment of this renewed annual rivalry.  The Dayton-Cincinnati matchup, which still lacks an official name, embarrass

11/9/2025 11/17/2025 Creighton lost to 13th ranked Gonzaga , then took out their anger on not ranked 13th MD Eastern Shore, which may or may not be a doctors office.  They pummeled them by 39 points 84-45.  Had Creighton simply arrived at halftime and played, they still would have scored enough to win (47 points). 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 differ

11/16/2025 Sam Brown has arrived! Wait, I apologize. Just like when I hired that caricature sculptor, I’m getting ahead of myself.  Davidson Men’s College Basketball is back and better than ever. I don’t mean that hyperbolically. The gentlemen are off to a flaming start: 4-0 with wins over DeSales, Washington State, Charlotte, and most recently, Bowling Green.  Speaking of flames, the basketball world has been burning recently. I am, of course, referencing the gambling scanda

11/16/2025 After last week’s New Orleans debacle, it does not take much to trigger flashbacks involving TCU basketball for me anymore. With 7 seconds left in the first half with the Frogs trailing to Lamar, I was preparing myself to see the Crying Jordan meme pasted on the TCU logo all over again.    Two Micah Robinson free throws and an entire second half later and my cardiac arrest chances finally dropped. The Frogs pulled away to move to 2-1 thanks to the frontcourt duo of

11/16/2025 Atlantic 10 men’s basketball action this past weekend was a doozy, and it kicked off Friday night with a back-and-forth duel between Fordham and Iona. In the battle of small New York schools, the Gaels came out on top, 76-71. Iona outshot the Rams from three-point range, 38% to just 19%, making it look like Rick Pitino was still in town.  In the other matchup Friday night, Rhode Island avenged the glorious A-10 by dismantling Albany, 80-61. Albany led by as many as

11/16/2025 Iowa State defeated Mississippi State 96-80 in a solid non-conference victory. This game was played at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I still don’t why although I’ll mention a thought in a bit. Just a four hour drive from Ames as opposed to a 15 hour drive from. Mississippi. Without question this was an Iowa State home game with at least 90% of the crowd in their favor. The throwback facility was very easy on the eyes. If you watched the Hickory

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

11/16/2025 Before I begin this column, I feel obligated, as a former midwesterner, to pay respects to the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald that occurred last Monday. As the Gordon Lightfoot song explains, the tragedy was the fault of the gales of November coming early.  Well, tell your Fulks that the Gayle of November is also staying late, as Head Coach Gayle Fulks just signed a seven-year extension through 2032. Unlike the winds on Lake Superior, this G

11/16.2025 Early returns on the 2025-26 Bonnies Men’s Basketball team may be somewhat misleading. No one is going to be complaining when St. Bonaventure opens up 4-0 to start the season, but it is too hard to project success with much harder challenges still to come. The Bonnies essentially “tuned up” with a win against Bradley in the home opener, and earned wins in games against perennial matchups Canisius and Siena. Most recently, St. Bonaventure came out with a four-point

11/16/2025 After a challenging first week, UNC Greensboro went to Raleigh to play an outrageously talented NC State team.  This is not your garden-variety middle of the pack Wolfpack.  After years of playing in the shadows of behemoths North Carolina and Duke, it’s very possible that the best team in the Raleigh-Durham area is NC State this year. Will Wade arrived after a remarkable tenure at McNeese State where he unleashed an unholy terror of a defense on the college basket

11/16/2025 THE University of Notre Dame lost their first game of THE season on Sunday on THE road against the ohio state university, 64-63. It was a game THE Irish coulda, shoulda, woulda won but ultimately did not due to some missed layups, ill-timed fouls, and an inability to score more than one bucket in THE last two minutes. While THE Markus Burton led ND with 14 points, he had an off game going 3 for 14 from THE field including a missed three pointer at THE buzzer. the b

11/14/2025 The team made the 50 mile trip down 64 East to take on the Tribe from William and Mary. Vegas mustve been asleep at the wheel favoring the Spiders by 9.5  as they easily handled their opponent 84-56. Maggie Doogan (predicted late first rounder in the 2026 WNBA draft), achieved her 13th double double of her career.  11/5/2025 As the only mid-major in the Top 25 preseason rankings (ESPN has them at 19), the Spiders crushed Mount St. Marys 83-49. You've heard of the a

11/13/2025 The Aggies Found the Rim, But it Wasn't for Love STILLWATER, Okla. — The Texas A&M Aggies came into Stillwater for a Sunday matchup against Oklahoma State, riding high on a two-game winning streak. They left on the back of a runaway train called "the Cowboys' offense," which, it turns out, is a more effective method of transportation than whatever the Aggies were doing with the basketball. In a game where Texas A&M shot a respectable 82.7% from the free-throw line,

11/13/2025 Despite a cold first half start that was colder than the Bonaventure campus in November ,the Lady Bonnies managed to hold off Binghamton University Bearcats.  As true Bonnies, the women never gave up and persevered 68-65.  A jump ball was the difference giving the Bonnie's possession at the end.  You have to watch out for those jump balls running  around causing havoc.  The result being a drive through the lane for a layup with a foul that put the Bonnies ahead for

11/12/2025 In League With Creighton 25-26 Week 2 Back when the schedule came out, I looked at the second game of the season, a trip to Washington state for a tussle with the eternally fantastic, never-rebuilding Gonzaga Bulldogs with dread.  The Zags return some outstanding big men and this year’s Blue Jay roster is not particularly well equipped to defend the likes of 6’9 250 pound behemoths like Graham Ike on the glass.  The Ike kid does a lot of everything, and does it wel

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 eternal in the Salt City. That said, we can be forgiven for asking: "who are these guys?" The squad will feature two returning players: JJ Starling and Donnie Freeman. Everybody else is new. Welcome, gentlemen. Let's start a march to March. - Rich Tucker 3/2/2025 With the ACC tournament fast approaching, the entire

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