SI.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
College basketball certainly ends with plenty of fanfare, but its beginning is always lost on the sports landscape. Seth Davis examines efforts to have an organized Opening Day.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Luke Harangody may have not been guaranteed a spot on an NBA team, but his return nearly guarantees Notre Dame a spot in the NCAA tournament this season, writes Seth Davis.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- There's nothing subtle about a Purdue basketball practice. The players wear shorts with the words "PLAY HARD" stitched across the rear. A clock hanging above the tunnel that leads off the court of Mackey Arena sits above a sign that reads, "Time to Play Hard." I watched Purdue go through a grueling for three hours Monday -- much longer than most teams practice...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
BERKELEY, Calif. -- California coach Mike Montgomery stood on the court at Hass Pavilion on Saturday afternoon and patiently walked his players through an offensive set. About 15 minutes into practice, Montgomery found himself standing between two of his primary big men, 6-foot-7 juco transfer Markhuri Sanders-Frison and 7-3 sophomore center Max Zhang. Suddenly, Montgomery raised his voice, not out...
Bruins Nation (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Image resized to fit the home page. Photo credit: bluejoe -N I can't quibble with Seth Davis' contention that this is a rebuilding year for Ben Howland . The team is minus three senior starters in Josh Shipp, Alfred Aboya and Darren Collison , plus NBA first rounder Jrue Holiday . Only Nikola Dragovic returns from the starting five. What I liked though about his story was this quote from...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
LOS ANGELES -- Ben Howland has all the financial security he needs, and he is beginning his seventh year of his dream job. As the UCLA coach sat and enjoyed a quiet lunch at Sandbag's restaurant last Friday on a spectacular sunny day in Westwood Village, he looked like a man who didn't have a care in the world.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Time to get busy, Hoopheads.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
It's easy to hate them, but college basketball officials are working too many games -- as many as 100 a year. Here's how to fix it, writes Seth Davis.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The practice of hiring a high school coach to secure a recruit is being banned by the NCAA. Seth Davis is pleasantly surprised by this and other efforts to clean up the recruiting mess.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
As of Friday night, it's officially basketball season. SI.com's Seth Davis has the 20 most pressing questions facing hoopheads so far.
UM Hoops (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
According to Go Blue Wolverine, 2011 super recruit Michael Gilchrist is on campus ($, but the picture tells all). Gilchrist is the consensus #1 player in class of 2011 and possibly in the whole country. For more information, here’s Seth Davis’ profile of Gilchrist from this summer. Obviously the competition is steep for landing the [...]
