Warning: this is the Official August 11 Preview of the upcoming CAA basketball season. It is a loooonnng read, but darn good and subject to change by the time you finish this sentence.
A couple notes:
I tried to chunk it out and provide some interesting tidbits wrapped in key areas of emphasis for the season. I [...]
Work with me here as I’m weaving together three very good articles to discuss a false notion that mid majors do a better job recruiting than their major conference counterparts.
They don’t.
What they do is a far smarter job recruiting.
For reference: it began with this ridiculously smart piece by Basketball Prospectus writer Drew Cannon. That prompted [...]
Mo Cassara and Bill Coen were both assistants at Boston College, and both now run CAA programs.
The two teams also played last year’s memorable CAA tourney game, a quarterfinals thriller won by Northeastern 74-71 in double OT. Charles Jenkins had 24 points, 8 rebounds, three assists and two steals in the [...]
Last Thursday evening, long-time VCU play-by-play announcer Terry Sisisky lost his bout with stomach cancer.
Tim Pearrell wrote a very good article detailing the facts of Sisisky’s 28-year VCU career. Sisisky’s passing is very sad on every imaginable level, personal to professional, and whether you knew him or not.
For me, the striking memory is this: All [...]
“Three male Drexel University students have been charged in a single robbery incident that occurred on July 21. All three students have voluntarily surrendered themselves to the Philadelphia Police Department Southwest Detectives. The University has placed the students on interim suspension pending the outcome of the investigation.
Drexel University’s Department of Public Safety is fully cooperating [...]
In what has easily been the most turbulent off-season in the history of the CAA, the past five days should not come as any surprise. (The summer of 2000 when the league nearly blew up is excepted.)
As first reported last night, Drexel’s Jamie Harris and Kevin Phillip are wanted by Philadelphia police on suspicion of [...]
I’ve always known I have the mind of a sports information director. They are my friends around the league and we have the best conversations. This is likely because we are wired to appreciate the numbers and have an analysis framework to the way we approach college basketball. Digging up the nuggets and thinking about [...]
Circling The Association with a pile of things I didn’t write.
Promise for tomorrow: quotes from Matt Brady, Bruiser Flint, as well as some questions to ponder. Heck, depending how real life plays out today, you may have it by 5:00. (Not a promise.)
Anyway:
Brian Mull finished off his summer preview series with UNCW, part 2. I [...]
There’s an error in the CAA record book. It says that Jim Larranaga’s 149 regular season CAA wins are the most in CAA history. Technically that’s accurate, and technically it isn’t. If we factor in assistant coaches—those guys that make suggestions and serve as the player conduits to the head coaches—Larranaga is a distant second.
Old [...]
This is the best thing I’ve read in months. Dave Fairbank of the Daily Press sat in on a recent talk Tony Shaver gave to a group of high school coaches. It is an outstanding piece worth your time and a look into how Shaver approaches basketball, and life.
Top of my list was Shaver’s admission [...]
