Much like in college football, it’s not just the big boys seeing success in college basketball these days.
Cornell Ranked for the 1st Time in 59 Years!
Don’t look now, but Cornell is ranked in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll. Yes, an Ivy League team. For the second straight week.
Even better, the Mountain West Conference–the [...]

Another college football season has come and gone, and the Florida Gators are the unanimous national champions. I was hoping against hope that the AP would go out on a limb and name Utah #1. Not surprisingly, that possibility didn’t realize, but the Utes did garner the AP’s #2 spot, in the process grabbing an [...]

If a college football coach votes in the forest and no one is there to hear it, did he really vote?
After the 2004 Texas-California BCS debacle (not to be confused with the various BCS travesties from other years), the powers-at-be determined that the final vote in the USA Today / Coaches Poll should be made [...]

Can anyone explain to me why Xavier is still ranked beneath Memphis in the latest Coach’s Basketball Poll after defeating the Tigers yesterday?  This wasn’t little Appalachian State pulling off the upset of the century on Michigan (I know that’s football, but the magnitude of the upset is what matters).  Xavier is a quality basketball [...]

Don’t look now, but it’s possible that the Atlantic Coast Conference could send a team to a Bowl Championship Series Bowl that isn’t even ranked into the Top 25. The new rankings have come out, and the best the ACC has to offer are #22 Maryland, #23 Miami, and #25 North Carolina in the AP [...]

Yesterday, I looked at the North Carolina Tar Heels and their chances of attaining perfection during the 2008-2009 college basketball season.  Today let’s take a look at some of the other interesting tidbits we can glean from the AP preseason basketball poll as well as compare it to the USA Today Coaches poll.
Big East Dominance
The [...]