From intrasquadders to scrimmages shrouded in secrecy to exhibitions against schools you’ve never heard of, it was a busy weekend in The Association. Thankfully CAAHoops has one of those unlimited plans with Verizon, and we were fortunate to have the wind blow a few odd but useful pieces of trash onto the doorstep. Before we [...]
It would be WAY too easy to overanalyze JMUs scrimmage “win” over Philadelphia University last night. After all, it’s the first real spoonful of non-Bahamian college hoops we’ve had this season. It tastes great. However please indulge the margins: AJDavis, projected by some smart guy at Rush the Court as the CAAs top newcomer, filled [...]
The proposal to allow conferences to add a $2,000 stipend to scholarships to “help bridge” the full cost of college hasn’t exactly been lost in the hoopla of realignment or the actual football season or the looming (yay!) basketball season. It’s impacts are far-reaching. There is the debate over the actual $2,000 number–more on that [...]
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we know what to do with it.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson. I’m certain Emerson and Dr. James Naismith never crossed paths, but it’s odd so many of the noted poet/essayist’s quotes are extremely applicable to basketball. Anyway… The time between the start of practice and [...]
In our ever-experimenting quest to find new ways to view, think about, and enjoy college basketball, we’ve come to truly embrace the “newfangled stats,” or “Pomeroy stats,” or simply tempo free statistical analysis. It’s a (comparatively) new way to analyze what we’ve seen, and a better barometer of true strengths and weaknesses of Our Teams. [...]
The power of social media resides in its ability to organize people around a common subject. We’ve loosely affiliated ourselves around the #caahoops hastag on twitter, and dropped the organizational bomb yesterday when it became real during media day. From this point forward you will be able to see all #caahoops hashtags on the right [...]
I’m sitting on the screened porch, a trusty Stella at my side, rewinding CAA media day. A scribbly notebook sits by my side, mocking me even though it has an empty Kit Kat wrapper sitting on top of it. (As if the Halloween candy was going to make it to October 31 untouched…) This event [...]
The recent success of the conference is coming to a screen near you. One of the benefits of the conference being nationally recognized is more television appearances. “(The television package) has increased and we’re very pleased,” says Bertovich. “The beauty is that we’re not done yet. We still have a couple games to add and [...]
We’ve been through about 15 different preseason predictions, but here’s the official list released today. Interesting thing that pops out to me, and a sign of the weird year in front of us: one first teamer and two second teamers will not play until middle December. ORDER Drexel George Mason VCU Old Dominion James Madison [...]
CAA Media Day is tomorrow in DeeCee. It’s one of those events that is more significant for what it stands for than what actually occurs. We’re lucky in that the coaches and administrators in the CAA are readily available and willing to take the time to talk. They personally return phone calls, and you don’t [...]