Posts by Adam Doster
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Your Annual Warning: Watch Out for Tom Izzo and Michigan State
Under Izzo, Michigan State has played 58 NCAA tournament games. That’s essentially two full seasons of sudden death contests in just 17 years.
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Butler’s Back: Can the Rejuvenated Bulldogs Make Another Cinderella Run?
Coming off the school’s second losing season in just 20 years, this Butler squad is back on familiar ground, like warm apple pie resting on an NCAA windowsill.
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Beyond the Blue Turf: Can Derrick Marks Lead Boise State to the NCAA Tournament?
“Thank god for Derrick Marks.”
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Worried About College Basketball’s Lack of Scoring? Go Watch Davidson and Iona
If you haven’t already heard, college basketball is done, kaput, tucked snugly into a hell-bound handbasket.
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No Goggles Needed: Can Jerian Grant Finally Lead Notre Dame’s High-Flying Offense Deep Into March?
It took a Vine-able piece of magic, but the country finally noticed how good the best player on the nation’s best offense really is.
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Chicago Conundrum: Why Are There No Good College Programs in America’s Best Basketball City?
In the past decade and a half, the Michigan State Spartans have played in more NCAA tournament games than every single Illinois-based program combined.
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Short-Term 13: Can Fred Hoiberg’s Juco Recruits Get Iowa State Past the Sweet 16?
Without necessarily realizing it, Iowa State identified a market inefficiency other marquee programs would soon look to exploit.
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The New Michigan Men: Caris LeVert and the Pipeline of Unheralded Wolverine Superstars
The Wolverines hoops program, whose last McDonald’s All American was Daniel Horton in 2002, has reemerged as a national power in large part by developing undervalued talent.
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Psyched on Sykes: The Dunking Point Guard Who Could Get Cheeseheads to Watch Basketball
Can college basketball’s most explosive lead guard the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to its first NCAA tournament birth since Bill Clinton was president?
