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College Fast Break - NCAA Basketball - College Basketball

October 10th, 2008

Way back in June

I professed my admiration of Bill Walker here prior to the NBA draft. You may remember him. He played second fiddle to Michael Beasley at Kansas St. last year. I compared him to Paul Pierce. Well, to make a long story a lot less confusing…
I was absolutely correct about this […]

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July 1st, 2008

CDR and I: Licking our wounds, but still getting paid, probably

I’m no Nostradamus when it comes to forecasting players’ draft positions, as you can probably already tell.
My NBA draft predictions weren’t exactly Matt Millen-esque, actually far from it, however a couple of glaring mistakes certainly overshadowed the brilliant gems.
Like anyone is keeping score at home, besides me that is.
I keep score.
In previous posts […]

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June 17th, 2008

Surprise Surprise

Almost a month ago—I’m not a professional analyst, yet—I wrote Should I stay or should I go? and proclaimed Jamont Gordon and Bill Walker, among others, would stay in school.
Well, they didn’t.
Walker’s decision wasn’t a big surprise, but Gordon’s was. But even more surprising was the college departures of George […]

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June 14th, 2008

Mock Drafts are just that, Mock

Andrew Skwara of rivals.com looks at 22 underclassmen who have not signed an agent and discusses whether or not they should sign with one and say goodbye to the college basketball lifestyle for good.
DECISION TIME
A.J. Abrams, Texas
STATUS: Should head back to campus
THE BUZZ: The 5-10 shooting guard shocked everyone - including the Texas coaching […]

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June 6th, 2008

The next Paul Pierce?

Game 1 of the NBA Finals saw the Celtics outlast, completely out shoot and utterly out hustle the Lakers in the 2nd half. This was surely not the start the media favored Lakers had in mind, nor was it what Stephen Kersey had in mind over at Hoops Fantasy.
Unless, of course, Kersey believes the […]

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