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What Is An Upset?
Posted: 4:00 am PDT 2006-11-28
The odds are, if you been paying attention to college basketball this season, that you've heard the term "upset" already thrown around quite a bit by newscasters and "experts."
Early Gauges
Posted: 4:00 am PDT 2006-11-23
Let's face it, in college basketball the odds of an NCAA Tournament bid hinging on the outcome of a game in November is pretty slim. What these games can do, for both the coaches and fans, is serve as a gauge of where their team stands in comparison to other good teams.
Turkey Week Tournaments
Posted: 11:00 am PDT 2006-11-21
Thanksgiving is approaching and do you know what that means, besides turkey and football? College basketball tournaments, of course. The odds are your mind doesn't work that way, but there will be a lot of good basketball played that week which deserves your attention
Conference Call For 11-14-2006
Posted: 5:00 am PDT 2006-11-14
One of the unique aspects of college sports is that fans not only support a school but often align themselves with their school's conference. Well, I love a spirited debate, so here's my take on where the best college basketball will be played this season.
Tipping Off
Posted: 3:00 am PDT 2006-11-08
I've been yapping about it in this space for the last two months, but it's finally time for the 2006-07 college basketball season to tip off. First on the docket are three tournaments that are worthy of your attention.
Changing Addresses
Posted: 5:00 am PDT 2006-11-01
Most college basketball fans keep track of the top incoming freshmen each season, but transfers and junior college players are another thing entirely.
Impact Freshmen
Posted: 3:00 am PDT 2006-10-25
They may be wet behind their young ears, but these incoming freshmen (several who would have gone straight to the NBA until the league changed its draft rules) will be critical to their teams' success, or lack of it, during the 2006-07 college basketball season.
Anonymous Stars
Posted: 4:00 am PDT 2006-10-18
One of the keys to handicapping college basketball is knowing which teams have the star players who make the biggest difference in winning and losing games.
NCAA Coaches On Hot Seat
Posted: 6:00 am PDT 2006-10-05
Coaches who enter this year already feeling pressure to produce -- or else. Odds are at least one of these coaches will be renting a moving fan sometime next March.
NCAA Coaching Changes
Posted: 8:00 am PDT 2006-09-25
With the usual flurry of head coaching changes following the end of the 2005-06 college basketball season, the odds are that you probably missed a few of them.
This Season's Cinderella
Posted: 5:00 am PDT 2006-09-18
George Mason University became the patron saint of mid-major college basketball programs last season by beating the odds and reaching the Promised Land, otherwise known as the Final Four. Who will be this year's George Mason?
Heading For A Fall
Posted: 4:00 am PDT 2006-09-12
The odds are that every college basketball season will feature teams that show strong improvement from the prior year, and others that were strong but have fallen back into the pack. Here are my candidates that college basketball bettors should remember for the latter category in the 2006-07 season.
Looking Ahead To Atlanta
Posted: 7:00 am PDT 2006-09-06
When college basketball teams assemble for their first official practices on Oct. 13, there will be more than 300 schools dreaming of spending the first weekend of April 2007 in Atlanta participating in the Final Four.

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