NCAA

August 7, 2010 – Allen Moll Head coaches Bill Self of Kansas, Josh Pastner at Memphis, and even John Calipari at Kentucky received some disheartening news in the past few days that each of their top recruits, primed to be major players for this upcoming ‘10-’11 NCAA season, have been ruled ineligible. Josh Selby, ranked [...]

August 6, 2010 – Allen Moll With the college game’s best players every season continually coming from the freshman class, nothing is more important than recruiting to an NCAA coaching staff. Regal recruiters like John Calipari at Kentucky, Thad Matta at Ohio State, and Bruce Pearl of Tennessee annually get commitments from elite level recruits [...]

July 29, 2010 – Allen Moll For a team that has only 1 NCAA Tournament appearance in program history, the IUPUI Jaguars thought they finally had a star in the making in top tier recruit Steven Jamison, who could help make them perennial Summit League contenders and earn some national respect for their hoops program. [...]

July 28, 2010 – Allen Moll In a move that just makes sense, the US Basketball Writers Association, who annually hand out an award to the best Freshman player during each NCAA season, has decided to name the prestigious award after former Oklahoma stand-out Wayman Tisdale. Why not, since Tisdale was once the first freshman [...]

July 27, 2010 – Allen Moll A few short months ago, back in the midst of March Madness, the name Omar Samhan was the talk of the NCAA tournament’s first weekend after scoring a tourney record 61 points and leading his St. Mary’s Gaels teammates onto their first ever Sweet 16 appearance. Even though the [...]

July 27, 2010 – Allen Moll Just because we all could use a little break from either all of the Lebron haters or Chris Paul trade rumor news, we’ll shift our focus back to one of TheHoopDoctors.com’s favorite all time players, #1 NBA Draft pick John Wall. Of course, recently we reported on Wall’s outstanding [...]

July 26, 2010 – Allen Moll The Greater North Carolina Pro-Am is annually one of the top stops on the competitive AAU circuit each Summer. Elite top tier high school recruits, current college players, and professional players alike put their skill to the test against each other, in hopes of either improving their stock in [...]

July 23, 2010 – Allen Moll Even as arguably Villanova University’s best all-time player, Scottie Reynolds never seemed to get much respect. He even kept all of the press clippings and news articles that criticized his game and pinned them on his wall that he aptly called his “wall of disrespect.” All he did in [...]

July 22, 2010 – Allen Moll All that senior Derrick Roland wanted to do at Texas A&M University was play basketball. After following his highly touted HS teammate Donald Sloan from Seagoville HS in Dallas, Texas to play for the Aggies, success came slow for Roland. After averaging only 4.5 ppg through his first 3 [...]

July 5, 2010 – Allen Moll As a walk-on redshirt sophomore last season at the University of Georgia, Connor Nolte had a lot of free time on his hands. He apparently has made good use of that time by becoming a world class trick shot artist. Partly because of that fame, he now also has [...]