In the past the Maui Invitational has brought us teams coming off of Final Four appearances. The championship in Maui often seems like a potential preview of April’s National Championship.
This year Maui has a little bit of a different feel.
I’m not saying that this field isn’t talented. Duke and Marquette definitely have dreams of getting [...]

Team Personality: This season’s struggles of the University of Cincinnati have been plentiful and well-documented. But there is another team residing in Cincinnati that is having a rather successful season. Nonetheless, hardly anyone is talking about the Xavier Musketeers.
In his [...]

Team Personality: Not since Michigan’s Fab Five has a team relied so heavily on the play of freshmen. The numbers are staggering. Texas is getting 74-percent of their scoring, 77-percent of their rebounding, and 79-percent of their assists from freshmen. Rick Barnes is receiving 75-percent of his teams’ offensive production from kids who less than [...]

Team Personality: The Gators personify the slogan, “There is no “I” in team”. Florida’s starting five is a group of prospective All-Americans who sacrifice their personal stats for the good of the team. They all love distributing the basketball to each other and form one of the greatest passing teams in college [...]

To say the season started slowly for the Vanderbilt Commodores is a bit of an understatement. They walked off the Memorial Gymnasium floor dejected as they suffered a baffling 70-62 defeat to the Furman Paladins. It was the first time Vanderbilt had lost to a Southern Conference school since 1968. There was only one win [...]

Anyone who saw Bruce Pearl cheering on the Tennessee Lady Vols against Duke can see the energy he brought to Knoxville when he became head coach last season. In the midst of the student section, there was Pearl blending in with the rest of the manic fans. He wore no shirt. His [...]

Heading into the 2006-07 season, there was not a coach in the country whose seat was hotter than Oregon’s Ernie Kent. The Ducks were coming off two very disappointing seasons and had not participated in post-season play since they lost to Michigan in the semi-finals of the NIT in 2004. However, there was [...]