Archive for 'NCAA Basketball'
ESPN College GameDay, live from the Octagon of Doom
Posted on 30. Jan, 2010 by Corey.
In 2005, ESPN decided to spin-off of the success that College GameDay was having in college football and create a college basketball version of the show. On January 22, 2005, the show aired on the campus of the University of Connecticut Huskies. Now, in its sixth season on the air, the show has made its [...]
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Purple Wildcat Power
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Corey.
I have talked many times on this site about my strong passion for Kansas State Wildcats basketball. It has not always been this way, but started in April of 2006 when good friend Bob Huggins was named Head Basketball Coach in Manhattan, Kansas. After one season in the Little Apple, Coach Huggins left to accept [...]
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ANYTHING for the Mountaineers
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Corey.
Dedication? Paying $11.95 online to stream the West Virginia Mountaineers game and then finding an S-Video cord to hook the laptop up to a television. That was me tonight as I went over my friends the Roberts house to watch WVU take on in state rival Marshall University. The game was being played in Charleston, [...]
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Ole Miss vs. Georgia in Athens
Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by Corey.
Life on the road in conference play for a Division 1 College Basketball team is always tough. They are in a strange town, an unfamiliar arena, and in front of a full house of screaming fans. There is history between the two schools that the players, and sometimes even the coaches, just do not understand. [...]
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Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Fund
Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Corey.
In the final few months of her life, I felt very blessed to get to know Norma Mae Huggins. Norma passed away in May of 2003 from colon cancer at the age of 68. She was the mother of my good friend and current West Virginia Mountaineers Head Basketball Coach Bob Huggins. After being diagnosed [...]
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First trip to Phillips Arena
Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by Corey.
Despite my love for the game of basketball I cannot seem to force myself to enjoy the National Basketball Association (NBA). The style is not what I am use to, with no full court presses, half court traps, or changing defenses by possession to show a 2-3 zone or 1-3-1 point drop zone defense. And [...]
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Ramblin’ Wreck Reloaded and Ready
Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by Corey.
What a difference a year can make for a Division One NCAA College Basketball Team. Unlike many aspects of the sporting world, a top recruiting class can be a quick fix for a team in need. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Head Coach Paul Hewitt brought the fourth best recruiting class in the country [...]
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Ole Miss Rebels- West Virginia Mountaineers
Posted on 26. Dec, 2009 by Corey.
On paper it was a good match-up between the undefeated six ranked West Virginia Mountaineers and the once beaten fifteenth ranked Mississippi Rebels. Two powerhouses from big named conferences hooking up for a pre-Christmas showdown on National Television. The other story line was mentor Bob Huggins facing student, and his former assistant and good friend [...]
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Country Roads Take Me Home…
Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Corey.
Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Life is old there, older than the trees, Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze. Country Roads, take me home, To the place I belong: West Virginia, mountain momma, Take me home, country roads. All my mem’ries, gather ’round her, Miner’s lady, stranger to blue [...]
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Crosstown Shootout 2009- UC-XU
Posted on 13. Dec, 2009 by Corey.
Forty minutes of basketball was not enough as ten extra minutes (two overtimes) was needed to decide the 2009 Skyline Chili Crosstown shootout between the University of Cincinnati Bearcats and the Xavier Musketeers. These two teams have squaring off against one another since 1928, but this was the first time the game was decided in [...]
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