A 3-3 night for the CAA brings the nonconference slate to 82-59. James Madison is at Kent State this evening to finish off the year. CAAction gets underway, and under out skin, on Monday. As opposed to repurposing the Tween Week Ramblings today as we promised, we’ll hold it for Monday. A few fun items [...]

It’s days like these that really make me appreciate the conference season. When supposed 45-minute meetings become two-hour meetings, and you take a midafternoon detour, there’s still time for CAA hoops, unless it’s Wednesday. Northeastern has tipped in Orlando against Furman. The Paladins, which would be a really cool nickname if it didn’t immediately hearken [...]

Save Bracketbusters weekend, this is the last time we get to look at an eight-game night in the Ye Olde Colonial. We’re actually ready for conference season, to be honest, so this is a good thing. And thanks to a certain someone a big part of my day was just taken from me. I’m feeling [...]

Drexel walloped Niagara last night, and the biggest takeaway is probably DAC Pack creativity. With the game already out of hand, a Niagara player missed a wide open jumper. DAC Pack member: “That’s why Chris Fouch is guarding you.” Also, I’ve now taken in two Drexel games on their web feed: Binghamton (79-39 victory) and [...]

Drexel gets us back underway in actual basketball action tonight. The Dragons host 3-9 Niagara in a game Ken Pomeroy says Drexel wins 77-58. Side note: hit the Drexel video feed if you can. It’s basic but very good. This game begins the finishing kick for the nonconference portion of the schedule (Bracketbusters notwithstanding). Eight [...]

We’re going to go a long way today, probably 2000 words of CAA minutiae, so we’ll start with logistics. First, this is the first of two very long posts designed to get you ready for the CAA season. Today we revisit the things we knew to be true in October to see, you know, if [...]

While you had visions of sugarplums, Northeastern coach Bill Coen had visions of a bad nonconference loss. His Huskies trailed Texas State by 14 points at the half on a Christmas Eve tussle in Cancun. (Yeah, filter all that…) Texas State shot 68% and made 7-10 three in the first half, and Coen knew he [...]

Time has a way of reconstructing memories. An antidote to the phenomenon is ritual, and sometimes the two blend together. For instance, I have clear Christmas Day memories of sitting on the couch, post-unwrap, opening the book my parents gave me. I began on page one and didn’t stop until I fell asleep at some [...]

It was when Ryan Pearson missed two free throws in overtime that I went for more pumpkin pie. The wine–a 2006 Modus blend, very nice–was gone, and the Olde English egg nog had me bloated. I was running out of options, knowing I needed more of something but also knowing that I needed to dial [...]

There’s no getting around the Birmingham Blowup last night. VCUs epic meltdown–the Rams were up nine with two minutes to play and lost–is fortunate only because it happened right around Christmas. Everybody can, on some level, forget it. But the way in which VCU lost is eye-popping. The Rams made one field goal and two [...]