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March 25, 2010 – Allen Moll This year’s NCAA Tournament has been as exciting as any in recent memory up to this point, by giving us a number of buzzer beaters. Cinderella stories, and catchy new player names like Farokhmanesh and Samhan. But now that we have reached the round of 16, can these upstart [...]

The playoff picture in each conference seems to finally be panning out, but it's still important to know where you rank among the rest of the league. [...]

March 25, 2010 – Kevin Burke Each year Gatorade honors America’s elite high school student-athletes on the principles of athletic achievement, academic excellence, and exemplary character in the sports of football, volleyball, baseball, softball, and boys & girls cross country, basketball, soccer, and track & field. Past winners include many of today’s top professional athletes, [...]

March 24, 2010 – Allen Moll Vitamin Water has partnered with a number of Hollywood celebrities and NBA superstars recently in variety of very funny commercials. Fans and readers of the The Hoop Doctors know that we have been all over their creations by showcasing them right here, like Steve Nash’s spoof on the Sham-wow [...]

March 24, 2010 – Allen Moll Kentucky Wildcat opponents have decided that it is much easier to try to get star big man DeMarcus Cousins to beat himself, by losing his temper during games, rather than holding him under his season averages of 15 points, 10 rebounds, and 2 blocks per game. It is well known [...]

March 23, 2010 – Allen Moll With a number of former players who starred in the NCAA Tournament like Michigan State’s Mateen Cleaves, Kansas’ Danny Manning, and Michigan’s Jalen Rose doing promotional interviews recently, it brought back memories of Chris Webber drawing a technical foul for calling a time-out, which the Wolverines didn’t have, in [...]

Each team has between 10 and 15 games left on the schedule. Some are fighting for playoff position. Others are watching March Madness and preparing for June's NBA Draft. [...]

March 19, 2010 – Allen Moll You know how ESPN comes up with their catchy names for certain days of their college hoops coverage like Big Monday? Day one should have been called Thrilling Thursday because it could quite possibly be the best opening day in the history of the tournament.  Unfortunately, CBS always gets [...]

March 18, 2010 – Allen Moll Last March, a newly sworn in President Barack Obama, picked the North Carolina Tarheels to win the 2009 NCAA National Title, proving that he is way more knowledgeable about college basketball than his predecessor, George Bush. As he sat down with ESPN’s Andy Katz yesterday, could he once again [...]

March 18, 2010 – Allen Moll Seton Hall’s Herb Pope once had a promising career ahead of him after being one of the most sought after HS recruits in the nation after the ’07 season. But because of a number of off the court issues, he had to settle on New Mexico State. After being forced [...]