If you’ve been watching any college basketball today then you saw that North Carolina State women’s coach Kay Yow died today after a 22 year battle with breast cancer. She was 66 years old.
Yow was one of winningest coaches in women’s basketball history, ranking sixth in all-time wins with a record of 737-344. She coached for 38 years, 34 at North Carolina State. She won four Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles, 20 bids to the Big Dance, including a Final Four in 1998.
She even coached the 1988 women’s Olympic team to the gold medal. The only thing that eluded …read more

You check the latest college basketball rankings and see that there is only one team (Florida) from the Southeastern Conference and four teams (Wake Forest, Duke, North Carolina, Clemson) from the Atlantic Coast Conference ranked in the Associated Press Top 25.

As another full weekend of college basketball was unfolding and Pittsburgh’s two-week reign as the number one team in the nation ended Saturday night with its loss to Louisville, I couldn’t help but wonder who would be number one today.
Would it be number three and one loss Duke, which had an impressive non-conference win against Georgetown? Or would it be number two Wake Forest, which had a big win against a team who some believe (Ryan) is one of the more overrated rated teams in Clemson?
I guess the voters in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today polls agree that …read more

Yesterday I come home from a great 80 degree day at the beach with my wife and son (it’s 85 today, so I’m going to make this quick so I can get the boy back to the beach), and I turn on the television to see that the team formally known as North Carolina lost again.
Wake Forest (15-0) handed the Tar Heels (14-2) their second lost of the season 92-89 at Wake Forest.
The loss dropped North Carolina to fifth in the AP poll and sixth in the ESPN/USA Today poll.
The win was good enough for Wake Forest to move up …read more

College basketball really does pay.
For the schools that is.
In a story earlier this year on Forbes.com, the site listed the 20 richest college basketball teams.
The list was based on four factors that include, their university (money generated by basketball that goes to the institution for academic purposes, including scholarship payments for basketball players); athletic department (the net profit generated by the basketball program retained by the department); conference (the distribution of tournament revenue); and local communities (incremental spending by visitors to the county during the regular season that’s attributable to the program).
There are really no surprises here as …read more

I said that when former high school star Brandon Jennings decided to skip college and head to Europe (Italy) more would follow.
The Associated Press is reporting that Georgia Tech’s Ra’Sean Dickey will leave the Yellow Jackets to play professional basketball with Budivelnik Kiev, a Super League team in the Ukraine.
Dickey, a 6-foot-10 inch junior center who averaged 8.7 points and 5.1 rebounds during his three years at Georgia Tech reshirted last season due to a right knee injury.
He will join former Georgia Tech teammate Anthony Morrow, who played for the Yellow Jackets from 2004-08. Anthony signed with the Ukrainian …read more