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In a special edition podcast, long-time editor and publisher of Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook Chris Dortch joins us to talk about an unusual season and much more.

It's been over 18 great years of covering college basketball and everything connected to it here at Hoopville.

Sometimes, our best-laid plans just flop. In March, this writer rolled out a historical series looking at NCAA Tournament at-large selection and the proverbial ‘bubble’, examining teams just above and below the cutline in the tourney every year from 1985 through 2019. The series ran in early March, five years […]

For Mark Hostutler this was all about a labor of love. A basketball fanatic, Hostutler specifically loved the Big East Conference of ‘back in the day’. . The Monday night matchups, battles at the Carrier Dome, the tournament at the ‘World’s Most Famous Arena’- Madison Square Garden. He simply loves […]

In our latest podcast, we look at recent decisions made regarding college football and what they mean for college basketball, including some developments since those decisions were announced. We also wonder if a commissioner is on a hot seat once again, a college assistant heading to the NBA, and some tragic news with a former ACC big man.

In our latest podcast, there was once optimism, but that appears to be fading, and a familiar league was a trendsetter once again. Plus a few other matters are discussed, including a new executive director for the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

During his storied tenure at ‘Old Nassau’, Pete Carril’s Princeton teams were known as ‘giant killers’. David with a mean backdoor cut and jump shot to boot. In winning the 1975 NIT Princeton not only slayed a few heavyweights, they culminated and put an exclamation point on a most unlikely […]

In our latest podcast, we look at off-court matters like a new name, image and likeness law as well as the first school to be punished by the NCAA coming out of the FBI investigation. Also, we look at a big loss for the Gators and some questions about the future of mid-major conferences, especially if they have a big geographic footprint.

The 2019-20 season was as competitive as expected in the CAA both in the regular season and the conference tournament. In the end, the winner of both was a team that had been close before and finally broke through.

Kentucky outlasted a twelve team field to win the 1976 NIT. Outlasted is the appropriate word as the Wildcats’ largest margin of victory came in the opening round-a 6 point win over Niagara. For the tournament, Joe B. Hall’s Wildcats won four games by a combined fourteen points. This was […]