Can JayVaughn Pinkston continue to grow into one of the Wildcats’ best offensive forces in 2012-13? It took him a little while to get his motor started in his rookie campaign, but once he did, he impressed in Big East play. The expectations will be high for the former boxer, and Adam Zagoria is...
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Ty Johnson and Ryan Arcidiacono both dealt with injuries last summer that had a lasting effect on their 2011-12 season. Johnson’s foot injury held him out of summer workouts and pre-Eurotrip practices, slowing his development as a freshman. Archy had back surgery that forced him to miss out on his entire senior HS season....
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Old Dominion’s move to Conference USA now seems to be close to completion. The school is in position to move to FBS after just one season playing in the CAA, largely because the conference that was raided by the Big East recently is in dire need of some larger television markets for its media...
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The real impact of a conference commissioner in NCAA Division I sports is subject to debate. So many major decisions are driven by the university presidents rather than the conference’s chief executive, but the buck must stop somewhere, and that tends to be the commissioner’s desk. The Big East lost schools during realignment that...
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Villanova football head coach Andy Talley has long worked to register new donors for the Bone Marrow Registry. Marrow is one of the more difficult matches to find a donor for, and without sufficient numbers in the registry, it might even be impossible for some. The registry program at Villanova outgrew the Main Line...
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It started with basketball. Prior to the 2010-11 season, Villanova’s basketball team was told to get off of the popular social networking site, Twitter, as well as Facebook and other platforms until their season was over. Players disabled, abandoned and deleted their accounts. When head coach Jay Wright finally joined the social media...
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The lingering plot-line of conference realignment has been the constant threat that one or more conferences could shutter their windows and close shop as the big boys on the block eat up the best teams from lesser conferences in a race to expand. Conferences have closed up shop before, but it is always difficult...
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The future of the Mountain West/Conference USA Alliance without a doubt, will have an effect on the structure of college athletics going forward. The two conferences were initially planning to dissolve and form a new conference containing all of their members, but may instead merge or form a different sort of affiliation instead —...
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Vaughn McClure recently took a look at Derrick Rose’s game, and the first thing he thought of was passing. The scoring point guard for the Chicago Bulls has a tendency to do his passing in the air — and according to the Chicago Tribune writer, Rose has been drawing criticism for his jump-pass predilection....
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DePaul has long played its men’s home basketball games at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, a 17,500-seat arena approximately 30 minutes from their Chicago campus. The Blue Demons moved their games off-campus in 1980 when the arena was built, leaving behind an on-campus arena of just over 5,000 seats. That on-campus facility was...
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