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Bleacher Creature Top 25 College Basketball Poll: Week Three
Fourteen B/R writers ranked the top 25 teams in the country. Last week's poll featured UNC as the top ranked team, and the same would go for this week. If you would like to participate in the B/R Top 25 poll, email me at jsflemin@syr...
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Wednesday Night Hoopla: Gonzaga Final Four Bound?
Statement of the Night (4) Gonzaga 74, Washington State 52 With each passing day, it's becoming more obvious that this is Mark Few's best team during his tenure in Spokane...
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Bleacher Creature Top 25 Notification: Polls Open Through Monday Night
I'm currently in Florida on a short vacation and will not have the time Sunday night to tabulate the results and post them. On Monday, December 8th, I will be putting the poll together...
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Wednesday Night Hoopla: Big Ten Looks Respectable Against ACC
Big Ten/ACC Challenge For the first time in several years, the Big Ten looked good against the ACC in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge...
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Bleacher Creature Top 25 College Basketball Poll: Week Two
Thirteen B/R writers ranked the top 25 teams in the country. Last week's poll featured UNC as the top ranked team, and the same would go for this week. If you would like to participate in the B/R Top 25 poll, email me at jsflemin@syr...
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Black Friday College Basketball Weekend Preview
Feast Week will conclude this weekend with the NIT Season Tip-Off, Old Spice Classic, Anaheim Classic, and Legends Classic which all will determine champions in four tournaments stacked with top 25 teams...
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Thanksgiving Eve Hoopula: UNC Reinforces No. 1 Ranking
A cornucopia of great action in New York City and Maui Wednesday night. The final round of the Maui Invitational and semifinal action in Preseason NIT took center stage...
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50 Reasons I Love College Basketball
I've written 49 articles tagged under college basketball. So I thought fittingly for my 50th article on college basketball, I would take a page out of Pat Forde's book and give 50 quick hitting reasons I love college hoops...
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Conference USA Ready to Take America By Storm
When the Big East raided Conference USA for some of the league's best teams after the 2005 season, the raid left Conference USA in a state of disarray...
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Bleacher Creature Top 25 College Basketball Poll: Week One
Fifteen B/R writers ranked the top 25 teams in the country. Last week's poll featured UNC as the top ranked team, and the same would go for this week. If you would like to participate in the B/R Top 25 poll, email me at jsflemin@syr...
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The 'Cuse Finally Has Hope After Program-Changing Week
Almost four years ago marked the last time a Syracuse football fan could legitimately have hope that the football team could possibly be good. Orange football once stood proudly atop every conference the school ever participated in...
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Road To The Final Four at Ford Field: Second Edition Of Bracketology
I do my brackets based on how a team projects to finish the season. You can check out my preseason bracketology here. Teams Underlined are newcomers to the bracket. Teams in bold are moving up and teams in italics are moving down...
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Stephen Colbert Is Afraid of Grizzly Bears, Syracuse Is Not
Other appropriate titles for this recap: "Grizzly Bears No Longer on Endangered Species List, so Syracuse Kills a Team of Them" "Syracuse Beats Oakland University, but not of Oakland, CA, but ...
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Calling All Bleacher Creatures: Voting for the B/R CBB Top 25 Poll Is Now Open
Voting for this week's Bleacher Report College Basketball Top 25 Poll is now open. You can e-mail me your rankings at jsflemin@syr.edu. Make sure you rank 25 teams, don't forget a number, and don't have duplicates, which was a problem at times last week..
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CBB Weekend Preview: Bring On Feast Week
Outside of March Madness, right now is the best time for the college basketball fan. Feast Week is in the oven and starting to heat up so it can be served to millions of college basketball fans...
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Wednesday Night Hoops: Mercer Owns BCS Conference Teams Edition
BCS Conference Teams Need to Stop Scheduling Mercer Right Now Mercer 78, Auburn 74 Let's take a look at the Bears' best wins from 2007-2008. First up, they knock off USC in a huge upset...
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Syracuse Community Worried Over the State of the Basketball Program
SYRACUSE— With the firing of football Head Coach Greg Robinson, the focus on the SU hill has shifted towards the much anticipated basketball season. But early on, Orange fans are worried...
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Syracuse-Richmond: 17 Years Since the 'Cuse Had Arachnophobia
It's been 17 years since Richmond pulled off a landmark upset for the game of college basketball. The lowly underspiders, err, underdogs became the first 15-seed to beat a two-seed since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985...
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The Start of College Basketball Season: This Is What We've Been Waiting for
The opening of college basketball. The first warmups, the first tips, the first dunk, the first three-pointer, the first bad call, the first coach to lose his cool...
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Everybody Stop Overlooking Manny Harris Right Now!
I'll say it again. Everyone needs to stop overlooking Manny Harris right now. I did here, here, and here. And I regret it deeply. But no more. Manny Harris is on my radar and should be on the radar of any college basketball fan...
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Bleacher Creature Top 25 College Basketball Poll: Preseason Rankings
Twelve Bleacher Report college basketball writers and I ranked the top 25 teams in the nation. If you are interested in participating in future polls, e-mail your rankings to me at jsflemin@syr...
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Road to the Final Four at Ford Field: Best Sixth Men in the Nation
10. Al-Farouq Aminu, Wake Forest The Demon Deacons brought in one of the most impressive group of freshman big men in the country. The player that headlines the class is Al-Farouq Aminu...
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Road to the Final Four at Ford Field: Tennessee to Take the SEC
SEC East Projected Order of Finish 6. Georgia The chance of building off of last year's incredible Cinderella run through the SEC Tournament and contending in the SEC is pretty low for the Bulldogs...
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Road to the Final Four at Ford Field: Statements You Can't Argue Against
There is a pretty easy premise for this article: The following statements can be debated, argued, and squabbled over, but in the end the counterarguments against them aren't strong enough to make the statement debatable...
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Road to the Final Four at Ford Field: Preseason Bracketology
During the 2008-2009 season, I'll be putting up a new bracket probably every week or every other week. My bracket will be a part of the Bracket Matrix, one of the most impressive undertakings on the web...
