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College Fast Break - NCAA Basketball - College Basketball

June 28th, 2008

“I can’t wait to play in the NBA”

Shan Foster, a 6′6 guard, drafted #51 overall, averaged 20.3ppg his senior year at Vanderbilt while netting 46.9% of his downtown tries as well.
He may be a one trick pony on the court, but he’s far from it off the court.
Video courtesy of ESPN Video

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By Ryan Pravato -- 2 comments

June 22nd, 2008

Not so fast Doubters

Is the University of Arizona the new Yale of the West?
Brandon Jennings sure might believe it.
The young basketball whiz from California, PG Brandon Jennings, might just decide to play overseas if he is found to be ineligible to play at Arizona next season due to insufficient SAT scores.
Brandon Jennings, who signed a letter of […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 3 comments

June 18th, 2008

Potential NBA draftees who would be better off NOT getting drafted

Why would anyone not want to see their name shown on the big draft board on draft night?
Well, undrafted players will be able to pick and chose the most ideal situation. They get to decide which team they go to. Drafted players don’t get to decide.
Michigan State’s Drew Neitzel
Drew played both point and shooting […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 5 comments

June 16th, 2008

D-League wonder Rod Benson “interviews” Cal’s Ryan Anderson

Ryan Anderson is going to be making quite a big decision by 5pm today. All signs point to Ryan signing an agent and entering the NBA draft, thus foregoing the rest of his college career at California.
He’s currently on that 1st round fence.
I routinely get the feeling that a lot of the non west […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 0 comments

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 […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 1 comment

June 10th, 2008

I’ll never understand

I will never fathom why so many sports fans have decided to jump on the Duke Blue Devil bandwagon, having never had any affiliation with the school in any way. I feel the same about the New York Yankees. Why do so many fans flock to such underachieving and arrogant teams such as […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 4 comments

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 […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 0 comments

June 4th, 2008

Some #’s from the Pre-Draft camp

If you like studying the NFL combine numbers and all, you’ll get a kick out of the NBA Pre-Draft numbers gathered in Orlando last week.
Thanks to rushthecourt.wordpress.com for bringing these numbers to my attention. And much thanks to draftexpress.com for their up close and personal work from Orlando last week.
You can see all of […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 1 comment

June 1st, 2008

Day 4 in Orlando

Draftexpress.com President Jonathan Givony gives us a final look at how well certain players performed on Friday.
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David Padgett Louisville
David Padgett put on a passing clinic, rebounding from two underwhelming performances to show NBA executives in attendance just what he can bring to the table as an extremely heady high-post center who makes everyone around him […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 0 comments

May 30th, 2008

In Other Bad News….

It was reported today that University of Connecticut and Hall of Fame Coach Jim Calhoun is being treated a second time for skin cancer.
Andy Katz of ESPN.com and the Associated Press reports that the 66-year-old Calhoun is expected to undergo six weeks of radiation treatment next month at the UConn Health Center to minimize any […]

By Kevin Hunter -- 0 comments

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