Every day I will give a new reason to be pumped for the upcoming college basketball season. Here's the 73rd reason to be excited for college basketball season.
Everyone knows about the main-stream-media: the ESPN's, CBSportslines's, SI.com's or the Dick Vitale's, Luke Winn's, Gary Parish's, and Jay Bilas's of the world.
They all have their spiel that's made them popular, made them the face of the college basketball media.
But what about the little guys?
The best college basketball information out there for any fan is (for the most part) written not by Andy Katz or Mike DeCourcy, but by Marco Ansksis and Ken Pomeroy.
It's the guys from Rush the Court or Eric Angevine of Storming the Floor.
The college basketball blogosphere is as good as it gets and it for any fan, especially the ones dedicated enough to follow this countdown, these websites are ones that need to be frequented.
Storming the Floor is a site run by several college basketball junkies and is widely considered one of the most well known alternative CBB sites on the web; they do the CBB closer for Deadspin.
The guys behind the site, Eric A. and Marco Anskis, have done a great job using their backgrounds in journalism to put together a phenomenal site that details the latest happenings in college basketball.
Weekly conference updates written by very knowledge correspondents keep you updated on the happenings of about ten major conferences.
Funny features like the "Brandon Wright All-Stars" (a segment dealing with bad free throw shooters) and favorite players that produced 7'8'' Kenny George which made him a blogosphere superstar before the main-stream media ever heard of him.
Storming the Floor also has the best rundown of CBB links that I've seen, so reports on dozens of teams are accessible at the click of a link.
Also out there are mind-boggling statistic websites.
RealtimeRPI is as good as it gets; it's free unlike ESPN.com's. Once you get to RealtimeRPI you realize how great it is. There are power rankings for college football, college basketball, women's college basketball. All updated within five minutes of each game finishing!
The site shows what teams are quickly moving up or down the rankings which really shows off what one big win can do for a team.
Also each team and conference has a page. On the team page you can check out the RPI of all the team's opponents, the result of the game, and it'll tell you if the result was a big win or very questionable loss.
The conference pages lists the strength of the conference, strength of schedules, RPIs of each team.
The site is so practical. During my campus TV station's live post game shows, I can get the on air talent current RPIs to have at their disposal.
Finally, the last site I reccommend ya'll use is Ken Pomeroy's statistical website. To put in words what this website brings to this table is basically impossible. It's indescribable.
Any secondary, hardcore statistic you could ever come up with in basketball is there.
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