April 2010
1 post
The Offseason Hoops Project
While I’ve moved the basketball blog posts to BleacherReport, I have a special plan for this site here on tumblr. I have recently come across a girl, let’s call her Lisa, that doesn’t know a single thing about basketball. I mean nothing. Well wanting to spread the good news that is college hoops, I have decided to spend the next several months leading up to the 2010-2011...
February 2010
2 posts
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The Lone Star Hate
It breeds NBA stars, boasts some of the nations best high school basketball, and as of right now Joe Lunardi is predicting 6 teams from within its borders to the NCAA Tournament. What is this roundball crazy locale? North Carolina? Kentucky?
Try Texas.
While Texas basketball isn’t a secret nationwide, it remains widely unappreciated even within its own borders. But not this week. On...
Are you watching closely?
I’m finally starting to get settled into my new city and my new job, so I’m back into the blogosphere. Over the last three weeks we’ve seen the rise of the Aggies and the dominance of the Jayhawks. We’ve seen the Big East (or to the casual Big 12 fan, “The other good conference”) become a bubblicious battle involving somewhere around 23 teams at last count. And...
January 2010
2 posts
Big 12 Weekend #2 - Miz!! z-OU!!
So the “Scott Drew doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing between the whistles” argument has a new feather in it’s cap. The Bears managed to lose to Colorado on Tuesday. I say “managed” because losing to Colorado is a feat that takes a lot of effort. In fact, in doing so, Baylor joined an elite group of Iowa State, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma as...
Big 12 Gameday #1 - 3 games to watch
Alright people, we’re finally here! Your football first friends are still crying over getting screwed out of a “legit national title game” because Colt McCoy got hurt. (Which is pretty stupid in the first place since three undefeated teams had no chance to win it… whatever, the set up of college football makes me sad. Sorry, back on topic.) So the football crowd is in their...
December 2009
6 posts
Horns and Hawks Roll, Raiders Fall
In a weekend that had several college basketball story lines, here’s what you need to know moving forward:
The Texas Longhorns are very, very good.
I’m not sure what was the most interesting part of this game, but let’s start with the stadium. I’m not sure how, but they managed to turn that 800 billion square foot gigantodome into a decent looking basketball setup. Sure...
Big 12 / Mountain West Saturday Showdown
Well, as expected, the Big 12/Pac 10 hardwood series has been about as entertaining as watching “Gone with the Wind” with your grandparents, and currently sits at a lopsided 8-2 in favor of the Big 12. However, there is a series of games this weekend that could give a much better indication of where the Big 12 stands. So, while this is not an official “showdown” series, I...
Enough Complaining, Let's Look at the Games...
Alright Big 12, last night wasn’t a good night, Iowa State and Oklahoma State go down to in-state opponents (thought to be fair, Tulsa isn’t bad,) and Missouri goes down to Vandy. All is not lost! It’s a long season. But if the Big 12 is going to act like the nation’s premiere conference, it’s time they show it. The Big 12 cannot afford to lose this...
Big 12 / Pac 10 Hardwood Series
Can you feel the excitement? It’s almost tangible. It’s finally the day we’ve all been waiting for. The Big 12/Pac 10 hardwood series is here!!! Okay, so it actually started the other day, but today is the day! ESPN will have the cameras cranked up for this 48 hour battle for conference supremacy! What? It’s on ESPN2? Well that’s pretty good, basic cable baby!! Que?...
Who Needs it More? Big 10/ACC Breakdown
This blog focuses on the Big 12, but since our ”conference showdown” is with the Pac-10 I figure I might as well jump on the media bandwagon around the Big 10 - ACC series. Besides, it’s one of the few chances to get to watch the Big 10 on ESPN out of conference. Which, let’s face it, is really the only time that Big 10 games are watchable.
Obviously these games are big,...
November 2009
9 posts
Feast (or Famine) Week Recap
Big 12 hoops fans everywhere were hoping that this could be a defining week for the conference. That the conference’s middle tier of teams would flex their muscle and show why the Big 12 is the best. That all-americans like Warren would crush weaker teams, and that lesser known players on the national scene would become household names on the east coast. Instead, what we got was an...
Are you ready for Feast Week?
Thanksgiving, a time for sitting around the house listening to your family scream back and forth across the house about who’s job it is to cook the casserole and which oven the turkey should go in. However, let’s face it, everyone also associates Thanksgiving with, say it with me… college basketball! No? Well they should. Because for true hoops junkies, there isn’t a week...
24 Hours of Awards!!
This marathon run for me started at 7:00 as I watched a streamed feed of Texas A&M at SMU and still isn’t over as I’m sitting here watching TCU vs Arizona State, but here are a few thoughts from today’s ESPN 24 Hours of Hoops.
First off, this is a great idea. It’s fun for everybody. I’ve watched well over 24 hours worth of basketball, especially since at times I...
Tier 1 - The best of the best
This is why the Big 12 is the best conference. Sure if you lined up the 12 teams and played against the 11 teams of the Big 10 (random draw of the Big 12’s bottom two would decide who played Iowa) The Big 10 probably wins most of those games. And Michigan State is as good as anyone in the country. However, when you say Kansas and Texas outloud, you can feel yourself get a little more...
Tier 2 (part 2) Southern Hospitality
The Big 12 South may have five potential NCAA tournament teams. Think about that for a second. FIVE. Will they? Only time will tell, but here is the rest of the second tier of the Big 12. This group features senior leaders, flashy freshman, and a trio of tiny guards.
5 - Oklahoma State
The constantly stripping Travis Ford (seriously, just start the game without a jacket and save us the drama)...
Tier 2 (part 1) where drama happens
This is where the excitement of the Big 12 really happens. The meat of the conference. Teams 3-8 are why the Big 12 should be the nation’s premier conference this season. Every team in this group has been to the NCAA tournament in one of the last two seasons, and they’re all fighting to get back there again this year. Could the Big 12 get as many as seven teams into the tournament? Joe...
Tier 3 (the bad and the ugly)
Here we are folks. It’s 48 hours from tip off in the Big 12. It’s also time to debut the Big12HoopsBlog preseason predictions. I’ve decided to break the Big 12 into three groups and unveil the preseason rankings by these tiers. Tier 3 features empty arenas, cold climates, and one unfortunate all-american. So here we go…
#12 - Colorado
Is there really anything that needs...
Signing day excitement!!
Well signing day is finally here. It’s like christmas for basketball programs. Assuming that at that Christmas time you already know what presents you’re getting unless the presents decided that they didn’t like you and left your tree for someone else’s. Okay, so bad analogy. The Big 12, especially in the South, is continuing to light up the recruiting world and the class...
Time for some rankings...
So since everyone that knows anything about basketball, and a lot of people who don’t know anything about basketball are throwing out their preseason rankings, I figure that I should do some predicting of my own. I mean c’mon, I’m at least as smart as Dick Vitale (who’s top 25 on ESPN has to be some sort of a joke.) So here it is, the first annual Big12Hoops preseason...