During the 14th week of the season, Matt Painter and his young Purdue Boilermaker squad made a big statement towards claiming the Big 10 crown this season as opposed to 2-3 years down the line like they were supposed to.  Purdue’s roster is so young, maybe they don’t know they’ve crashed a party they weren’t […]

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Rick Pitino’s Louisville Cardinals are starting to look like a Pitino-coached team. Early season losses to BYU, Dayton and Purdue looked to keep his squad out of mind for Selection Sunday. Another couple of losses (at home to Cincinnati, and on the road to lowly Seton Hall) almost assured a burst bubble, but […]

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Tennessee is quietly creeping back into the national spotlight after a disappointing 19 point loss to Texas back in late November. Keep in mind, back then, Texas was beating whoever was put in front of them. The Volunteers have mounted a 16-1 record and, this week, snatched a top 5 ranking with a […]

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This week’s award could have very easily went to Missouri, probably should have went to Pittsburgh, but will go to UCLA. The Bruins had a ho-hum victory over Washington on Thursday, but a huge win over Washington State on Saturday. A lot of national publications are mentioning Kansas, Memphis and UCLA as the […]

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Xavier went nuts this week, finishing 3-0, while showcasing an offensive explosion. On Monday, they embarrassed Kansas State, 103-77, on Thursday they destroyed Virginia, 108-70, and on Sunday they put a beatdown on Auburn, 80-57.

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Forgive the delay in articles, but with the holidays, family gatherings, and all that stuff, things got a little behind. I will do my best to get back on track as we head into the ever-interesting conference season.
Stanford gets the nod for the No Confinement TOW and it’s not because they have won 7 […]

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The winner of this week’s award was going to belong to one of the winners from the week-long extravaganza of tough games. It was going to be the winner of either the Duke/Pitt game, the Michigan State/Texas game, the Tennessee/Xavier game or the Memphis/Georgetown game. The most impressive victory was, hands down, Memphis over […]

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This is probably the only week of the season where a team can play just one game and still win the No Confinement TOW Award. Because of Fall Semester Finals and winter break, not much action was taking place on the hardwoods. Still, the Kansas Jayhawks had a very important week.
Kansas played only […]

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