After the white-knuckling, brow-furrowing, hand-wringing opening week to the season, is there any better justice than last season’s seven-win team garnering the first big victory of the season for the conference? Seriously, on the heels of Mason’s gift to the Big East (more on that in a minute), anyone with a warped brain could’ve said [...]

Five games today, led and highlighted by Mason and Villanova at 2:00pm. All of today’s viewing (and listening) options are here Kish with a great rundown of Mason links EDIT: Mull’s UNCW/Penn State Gameday preview, with items from Penn State message board admin. Very good stuff, except for the taunting about weather and food updates. [...]

The thought was to take the Northeastern loss to Siena to illustrate an early season paradigm for all fans. You see, after one or two games every fan has the season figured out. Every game from here to March will only validate the November belief. I love fans for exactly this passion, and it’s why [...]

Some housekeeping notes… I finally fixed the link to ODU blogger Brendan O’Hallarn: ODU–O’Hallarn Also, updated the composite schedule by getting Elon at Hofstra on it, and wiping away the already played games. Finally, made aware of a new Nor’easter blog by a kid Darren Costa. No clue as to its worthiness, but the very [...]

First the recap: Old Dominion and Georgia State rolled to victories over mismatched opponents last night, as expected. The best thing to come out of these scrimmages masquerading as games is that nobody was injured. For the die hards here’s the ODU boxscore, and here’s the Georgia State boxscore. Now, Hofstra looked pretty darn good [...]

Hofstra with a biggie tonight against UConn, and I fear for the Pride. UConn hasn’t strung together one of “those” games (save for one half last night). and though he didn’t say the words, Jim Calhoun clearly let his team know of his “affection” for their play so far. Firing up an immensely talented team [...]

He is a walking Excedrin commercial, but I can’t blame him for this one. Drexel’s end-game “basketball IQ” was horrendous. More missed layups, fouls after letting the shot clock run to 15 seconds, and especially not boxing out on free throws are sanity killers. Then there are the officials, who are bound to miss a [...]

I don’t know that I’ve seen so many missed shots from less than two feet. The Dragons took a 17-8 lead then gave up a 15-1 run, misfiring from anywhere, including two dunks.

We’ve found a very interesting scheduling quirk, and it isn’t an 8:00am tipoff, followed by brunch, then a noon tipoff on ESPN. Well it is that. But it’s also the CAA taking on the top two teams in the MAAC, on the same day, before your afternoon nap. The game may be over before you [...]

Just one game tonight pits Hofstra against Yale. Winner gets UConn. I could be wrong, but methinks the Pride will have an easier time of it than the trip to Phog. I know I’m correct when I say Hofstra will not be outshot from the foul line 27-2 in the first half like at Kansas. [...]