05.30.07 Fast Breaks
A lot of piled-up news to get to today… The biggest story: Brandon Rush tore his ACL, withdrew from the NBA Draft, will have surgery this week, and will likely be ready to play at KU next season. The...
View Article08.30.07 Fast Breaks
What’s going on around the hoops world this week? “Hoops” Weiss reports that 2007 A10 rookie of the year Robert Mitchell (16ppg; 5rpg) from Duquesne is transferring to Seton Hall. More injuries –...
View ArticleBreaking Down the Preseason Mags… pt. 2
So Wednesday we established that the Athlon Sports preseason magazine is one that you probably shouldn’t take home with you. Unless you’re the type of person who goes gaga over seeing your favorite...
View Article10.16.07 Fast Breaks
An absolute ton of newsworthy stuff to catch up on from the weekend… 2008 #1 player Greg Monroe committed to Georgetown after his visit there this weekend. It couldn’t have had anything to do with...
View ArticleATB: Brandon Rush’s Triumphant Return
11.25.07 Game of the Day. #4 Kansas 76, Arizona 72. The four-days-early game between Kansas and Arizona in the inaugural Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series was everything a college hoops fan could have...
View ArticleOne last shining moment for this season. . .
After Saturday night’s blowouts, we can only hope that tonight’s title bout will give us a great game to finish off the season. I think both teams have too much talent to get blown out, but I never...
View ArticlePost-Championship Fast Breaks (04.08.08)
A few more drops of residual knowledge in the wake of Super Mario’s bomb… Where does 2008 KU rank among this decade’s champions? We’d put them higher than seventh but lower than fourth. Brandon Rush...
View Article04.25.08 Fast Breaks
Some news on early entries as the deadline (Sunday at midnight) looms and some other flotsam we’ve been holding on to for your Friday… UNC’s point guard Tywon Lawson will be testing the waters....
View Article2008 Early Entry Winners and Losers
Whew. After an exhausting day trying to track the news feeds seemingly every minute to figure out who was staying and who was leaving college, we can finally take a deep breath and start to sort out...
View Article2008 NBA Draft Profiles: Brandon Rush
Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to be rolling out our profiles of several of the top expected prospects in the 2008 NBA Draft. Figuring that we’re not the only ones who’ve thought of this,...
View Article2008 NBA Draft Live Blog
Well this is sort of unplanned, but rtmsf asked me to do this and I’ve got nothing else to do tonight so I figured I would throw up a live blog of the events. 7:30 PM: Everybody’s favorite...
View Article2008 NBA Draft Musings
Thanks to N-Bug’s liveblog of the NBA Draft last night, we felt like we were almost in the building sniffing David Stern’s manscent and Darrell Arthur’s ire. What’s the record for lowest pick of...
View ArticleBoom Goes the Dynamite: McDonald’s All-American Game
Normally the McDonald’s All-American game (rosters here) would only be worth watching for the occasional ridiculous dunk or the lack of defense, but the circus in Lexington and the fall-out in Memphis...
View ArticleSherron Collins and Cole Aldrich to Return to Kansas…
Two springs ago Bill Self received the bittersweet news that his star forward Brandon Rush had torn his ACL during predraft workouts and was returning to Lawrence for another year. Rush followed that...
View ArticleIn 1-and-Done Era, Experience Wins Championships
(special h/t to Luke Winn for inspiring this analysis with his article here) You may have heard in recent days that Kentucky’s John Calipari has been filling up on the tasty nougat that has risen to...
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