By Austin Burton
In a season where college basketball is without one dominant team, the national championship race is truly wide-open. Last night, #1 Kentucky dropped its first game at unranked South Carolina, becoming the last undefeated team to get familiar with the loss column.
West Virginia has just as good a chance as anybody at taking the whole thing. The 9th-ranked Mountaineers (16-3, 5-2 Big East) have a senior leader in SG/SF Da’Sean Butler who is also their best player, an athletic NBA wing prospect in Devin Ebanks, an explosive point guard in Darryl “Truck” Bryant, a good outside shooter in Wellington Smith, a future Hall of Fame coach in Bob Huggins, an underdog mentality since they’re not Kentucky or Kansas, and an entire legion of hungry wild dogs on the defensive end. Read More »
Tags: Bob Huggins, Da'Sean Butler, Darryl Bryant, Devin Ebanks, Evan Turner, Jeremy Hazell, Kevin Jones, Wellington Smith, Wesley Johnson, West Virginia
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By Matty D
That’s right, the start of the college hoops season is just one week away and you know what that means: it’s time to unleash the mother effing fury! For the past seven months, I’ve been bottling up a vicious mixture of excitement and rage, just waiting for the moment to release my emotions onto the rest of the world. Well that time has come. Your boy Matty D is back to give you a look at the top teams in the country and to separate the champs from the chumps. Read More »
Tags: Abdul Gaddy, Bruce Pearl, C.J. Wilcox, Cal, Da’Sean Butler, demarcus cousins, Devin Ebanks, Isaiah Thomas, Jerome Randle, Joe Mazzulla, John Flowers, john wall, Kentucky, Kevin Jones, Lorenzo Romar, Patrick Christopher, Patrick Patterson, Quincy Pondexter, Scotty Hopson, Tennessee, Tyler Smith, Washington, Wayne Chism, Wellington Smith, West Virginia
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