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College Fast Break - NCAA Basketball - College Basketball

August 19th, 2008

USC Lands A Big Transfer From North Carolina

USC continues to rebuild in the post-O.J. Mayo era by landing a big transfer in Alex Stepheson from North Carolina, according to today’s Los Angeles Times. Stephenson is a 6-foot-9 junior power forward, who is seeking a waiver to gain immediate eligibility.
But this isn’t any ordinary transfer. The main reason Stepheson is enrolling at […]

By Kevin Hunter -- 0 comments

August 16th, 2008

It May Be Time To Give The Olympics Back To The College Players

Anybody with a pulse has probably been keeping up with what’s been going on at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
The United States basketball team destroyed Spain today 119-82 to advance to the medal round. This should come as no surprise. The U.S. has been abusing the competition since they got off the plane […]

By Kevin Hunter -- 0 comments

July 19th, 2008

The Post O.J. Mayo Era Begins For USC

DeMar DeRozan, a 6-foot-6 inch, 200 pound small forward out of Compton High School in California will be academically eligible to play for the USC Trojans next season. DeRozan became eligible with his overall grade point average and recent ACT scores and is ready to enroll in summer classes.
DeRozan, a McDonalds All-American, who was […]

By Kevin Hunter -- 0 comments

July 12th, 2008

Posterized!

Memphis Grizzly O.J. Mayo did not disappoint in his first Vegas summer league game on Friday. Not only did he hand out 5 dimes and score 15, he also threw down an emphatic jam after scaling down the court in 3 dribbles.
Poor quality, but still slammin!

I’d like to see Kevin Love do that!!
Minnesota just […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 1 comment

July 11th, 2008

And Another Thing…

Can we please stop referring to certain college basketball players and college athletes in general as “Student Athletes”?
How much of a student do you really think Michael Beasley, Kevin Love, O.J. Mayo, Derrick Rose and the other one-and-dones and two-and-dones were really students? How much time do you think they spent in the class compared […]

By Kevin Hunter -- 0 comments

July 11th, 2008

How Many More Will Follow Jennings to Europe?

The answer - Plenty!
Now that Brandon Jennings is setting a precedent and blowing off both college and the NBA for a year or more to play in Europe, expect more high school players to follow suit. In this great country of ours, nothing is going to stop someone from making a living, and you can’t […]

By Kevin Hunter -- 0 comments

June 28th, 2008

NBA Draft offal: Where Minnesota Trades Mayo Happens

On Thursday night Minnesota had a lot of people respecting them, believing they had made the correct selection at #3. But when folks woke up Friday, many were probably not too surprised the team who gave up Kevin Garnett traded away O.J. Mayo too. This time the T-Wolves didn’t get a Al […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 2 comments

June 25th, 2008

NBA Draft garbage: Where Westbrook goes top 5 happens

THE 08 NBA Draft is fast approaching and I for one love to predict when certain players will get drafted and whether they will become the next Eddy Curry disaster or the next Monta Ellis find.
O.J. Mayo USC
O.J. has been talked about ad nauseam on this site as you probably already know (sorry […]

By Ryan Pravato -- 5 comments

June 22nd, 2008

A Week Without O.J.

Is like a week without sunshine and sky rocketing gas prices in California.
Try as I might, there was no news this week about my favorite potential illegal recruit from USC, who could single handedly bring down and entire college basketball program. I wonder what L.A. Times O.J. Mayo beat writer Ben Bolch did with all […]

By Kevin Hunter -- 0 comments

June 15th, 2008

More News From O.J. Mayo Land

Ben Bolch of the Los Angeles Times seems to be as enthralled with this O.J. Mayo thing as I am (it is the middle of June after all and what else is going on in college basketball?).
Now he reports that former Mayo lackey and whistle blower Louis Johnson met with the NCAA, the Pacific 10 […]

By Kevin Hunter -- 0 comments