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February 19, 2021 - by Chuck Walsh Hamilton Named To National Coach Of The Year Watch List TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – Florida State Head Coach Leonard Hamilton, who has led the Seminoles to a 12-3 overall record and an 8-2 mark in ACC play, has been named to the Late Season Watch List for the Werner Ladder Naismith National Coach of the Year. Hamilton is a candidate for the National Coach of the Year Award for the second...

PROVO — The new report reared its head like it so often has in the past and came in the same fashion: with a tweet. John Canzano, a columnist for the Oregonian and Portland-area radio show host who has grown a following by reporting on (and occasionally digging into) the Pac-12, tossed out the revived discussion that has been at the heart of college basketball in the west for weeks. "Gonzaga and BYU are weighing whether they should opt out of the West Coast Conference basketball tournament," ...

Wacked that Cards aren’t Back Share this story Oh Naismithius, how you let me down. The other day I beseeched you, the Greek God of Hoops, to ensure the Louisville Cardinals would return to the hardwood Wednesday evening. You, and you alone — Or So I Thought — could and would make it happen, if only to assuage the angst of this long time acolyte. But noooooooooo, you apparently used your powers to manifest the free throw shooting prowess of arch rival instead. My solar plexus throbs in pa...

Photo By - USA TODAY Sports The Gonzaga Bulldogs get to return home - where they win by over 30 points on average - after a very long layoff, and will have family present in the stands for the first time this season. Photo By - USA TODAY Sports The Gonzaga Bulldogs are back in Spokane to take on the St. Mary’s Gaels Thursday night after a five-game WCC road trip kept them out of McCarthey Athletic Center for close to a month.  The Bulldogs are 20.5-point college basketball betting favorites,...

Feb 15, 2021 Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball, where the Drake-Loyola Chicago feud has now supplanted the Drake-Pusha T feud as the best Drake feud: SEEDING DILEMMAS We’re inside a month until Selection Sunday, which means the Bracketology machinery will be running overdrive. Dozens of game results will be viewed through the prism of the NCAA tournament: who is in, who is out, what seeds should be assigned to those on the right side of the bubble. The ...

O ver the weekend Gonzaga put up 100 points on the road against San Francisco, marking the fourth time this season the Zags have reached triple-digits in scoring. The Zags’ offense is elite, and they’ve made that clear all season long. Saturday against the Dons, despite the scoring output, the story was on the other end of the court. “I’d rather talk about our defense,” head coach Mark Few said after the game. “I thought our defense was great tonight.” It was great, and the Z...

College basketball's bluebloods earned elite status through multiple championships, sustained traditions of winning and revolving doors of star players through their programs. A new group of teams has inched closer to basketball royalty and has remained relatively steady even as the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the sport. Top-ranked Gonzaga, No. 5 Villanova and a handful of other programs may not have the historical resumes to compare to the bluebloods, but consistent success...

Bringing each teams roster, plus coaches and traveling personnel, administrators, fans, media and others to one location isnt the best idea as the pandemic continues to surge across the country.

Conference tournaments still on schedule despite concerns Follow Us Question of the Day By JOE REEDY - Associated Press - Thursday, February 11, 2021 Gonzaga’s Mark Few isn’t being asked the usual question of where his team should be seeded for next month’s NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs remain unbeaten and have been the top-ranked team all season, making them a virtual shoo-in for a top seed. Instead, he i...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas dropped out of The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the first time in 12 years on Monday, ending the Jayhawks’ record streak of 231 consecutive weeks ranked in the Top 25.Gonzaga and Baylor held down the top...