MICHAELSPAPPY'S BASKETBALL BLOG

I don't know much about Maryland coach Gary Williams except that they won the national championship while he was there, and he also stac...

The Atlantic 10 is the eighth-ranked conference, which puts them in some good company, but outside the list of heavyweights. And La Salle wa...

Most basketball fans have heard of Pete Maravich, but many have forgotten that Niagara's Calvin Murphy was just a step behind Pistol Pet...

The War Between the States understandably made law enforcement an iffy thing, and thus criminal elements posing as quasi-militia groups (e.g...

Quite a few fan sections, especially student rooting sections, have nicknames, e.g. Texas A&M's Twelfth Man. I have never seen one c...

My father was at LSU working on his Master's Degree during the time when Bob Pettit was a three-time All-American there. He was the firs...

Except for sometimes Penn and Harvard and Princeton, the Ivy League is not very good these days. And it has not been for a long time. After ...

William Theodore Walton III averaged 20.3 ppg, 15.7 rpg, and shot 65% from the field, so picking out a "best" game in a sterling c...

We might sometimes get into a discussion of what it takes to constitute a "big man" in a college line-up. However, there is no arg...

David Robinson made a commitment to the Naval Academy and he stuck with it. You could argue that he made a commitment to the nation, and stu...

Hey, I like new Wake Forest HC Steve Forbes. Wake center Olivier Sarr has put his name in the transfer portal. UK is supposed to be one of t...

Denver was a national power in ice hockey when their basketball program was in the SBC, and they still are. I do not remember when they left...

Because it has been a while since DePaul has been relevant, and perhaps because they do not have any national championships to their credit,...

Late in the game, when free throw shooting is at a premium, a lot of teams are in trouble because they don't have enough players who are...

No one goes to the national finals with just one player, so we know that Indiana State had a good team in 1979 - more than just Larry Bird -...

Enjoy it, fans, because the double pair of big men that Little Rock should have working this coming season is very rare at our level. This p...

Georgetown is one of the programs which, like Arkansas under Eddie Sutton, seemed to come out of nowhere with the arrival of John Thompson, ...

So how did we beat the Boilermakers, considering we were behind late against a very good team? Well, Josh Hagins got hot at exactly the righ...

Part of the rationale for a reliance on the three-point shot is that is counts half again as much as those inside the arc, which is true. Ho...

Thankfully, those of us who have been fans for more than a couple of years have seen some very good teams - championship caliber. And the ol...