UNC just fine without Tyler Hansbrough
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Yes, they’re still winning even without the reigning national player of the year.
One week into the 2008-09 NCAA college basketball season and the North Carolina Tar Heels are still reigning supreme. The Heels passed their first big test without Tyler Hansbrough as their front line stepped up big with Tyler Zeller scoring a team-high 18 points while fellow freshman Ed Davis came up with a double-double Saturday to help North Carolina beat Pennsylvania 86-71.
This is definitely an impressive season-opening performance that indicates that the North Carolina Tar Heels can weather the uncertainty of playing without the national player of the year.
Deon Thompson added 17 points for the Tar Heels, who led by double figures much of the day yet had some trouble putting together a game-sealing run. North Carolina was also without fellow senior Marcus Ginyard, injuries that forced North Carolina to thrust Zeller and Davis into the lineup.
Taking the second spot after week 1 are the Connecticut Huskies, led by Hasheem Thabeet, the 7-foot-3 junior from Tanzania, who scored 23 points and had a career-high 17 rebounds to lead No.2 Connecticut to a season-opening 81-55 win Friday over Western Carolina.
Thabeet, who towers 7 inches over any defender, also blocked five shots. He was 7-of-11 from the field, with most of his attempts from inside five feet. After two years as the Huskies’ defensive stopper, Thabeet says he ready to step it up on offense as well.
Following at third are the Louisville Cardinals, at fourth spot is UCLA and rounding up the fifth spot is Pittsburgh. Levance Fields and DeJuan Blair had 15 and 17 points respectively as they breezed past Fairleigh Dickinson 86-63 Friday night.
Michigan State is at sixth, the Texas Longhorns are at seventh spot, while the Duke Blue Devils, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and…
Bob Knight, a Living Legend for Texas Tech Red Raiders
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
If we are talking about the 2007-2008 NCAA College Basketball Season, the name Bob Knight, coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders, is synonymous with greatness and winning. Coach Bob Knight is one of the greatest coaches ever to walk onto a basketball court, who has more wins than any Division I-A head coach (891).
Looking at Coach Bob Knight’s coaching career since he was hired by the Texas Tech Red Raiders. In his first year, Texas Tech Red Raiders went from 11th in the Big 12 Conference to a tie for third and posted a +14-victory margin (9-19 in 2000-2001 to 23-9 in 2001-2002).
In Coach Bob Knight’s second season, it marked his eighth National Invitational Tournament appearance and the 34th time in his 37 years of coaching that his teams had played in post-season tournaments. By his third season with the Texas Tech Raiders coach Bob Knight was at the helm of another unqualified success. Overall, the squad won 23 games marking the first time in the school’s history that the…
Cardinals look for a March Madness spot on Selection Sunday
Friday, March 9th, 2007
The Big East conference is always anybody’s game, and the Louisville Cardinals sure took advantage of it. It’s not long ago that the Louisville Cardinals struggled, lost two in a row and almost fell at the very bottom of the Big East conference standings. Even with all of Louisville’s problems this season, they were able [...]
NCAA Basketball Rivalry Week: It’s Duke vs North Carolina
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Some games need buildup. This one doesn’t. Quite simply, it’s Carolina and Duke, two desperate teams meeting in Cameron Indoor Stadium in front of a nationwide audience. No. 5 North Carolina (20-3, 6-2) will head to Cameron Indoor Stadium to take on its second – and biggest – rival in five days, No. 16 Duke [...]
Can George Mason pull another March Madness feat?
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
George Mason stunned the nation last year by going all the way to the NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis and it looked as though they were going to win it all. But their cinderella story would come to an end against the Florida Gators. Despite their heartbreaking 73-58 loss to the Florida Gators (who would [...]
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