As previously mentioned, James Madison added 6-11, 260-pound Gene Swindle, a transfer from Virginia Tech. Obviously transfers usually have to sit out a season, but JMU petitioned for his immediate eligibility with the NCAA and won. JMU also won its appeal with the NCAA last year for immediate eligibility for Humpty Hitchens. Swindle’s story is [...]

We’re not really Official Betting Types at CAAHoops. I say that because we don’t actually gamble, per se, but over the years many lunch tabs have been won and lost in barroom posturing and debate. The most famous occurred after an old man softball game** two summers ago. As is custom, when the last out [...]

Summer…it turns me upside down. It’s like a merry-go round. Teams, players, outlooks; they all bleed together in the heat of the summer, which gives way to the heat of the gym. Sometimes I feel as if the summer is more for posturing anyway. Rules changes, transfers, recruiting–it’s all sizzle and pales in comparison to [...]

A couple quick updates, questions, and coaching quotes as we steam towards a rather necessary weekend. Of note: The regular season starts three months from today, and most of the players are back home, between summer school and the start of the semester. Oh, it’s getting close my friends. One team that is not relaxing [...]

The news of Kent Bazemore’s stress fracture in his foot sent my index finger straight to the top of my cranium to begin the all-too-familiar scratch. It was the third instance of a stress fracture impacting a CAA team this summer and into next year. Seems like a big number to me. Earlier this summer, [...]

It’s rare that we stray into the national issues. We prefer our mid major fiefdom—the Stella is colder, the games closer, conversations smarter, and the satisfaction level every March is attained without angst. We indeed have it better. But there are two issues that have dominated the summer’s national prattle that we will address in [...]