Basketball Season Nears!

Practice starts 51 days...
first games/exhibitions are only about 2 months away...
Early signing period (for Letter of Intent) is November 11-19, is only 11 weeks away,
and BU is expecting one big one sent in from Southeastern Iowa....


Here's a Great new event...let's pack the place with Bradley basketball fans!
Coffee with the Coaches!!
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12984

maybe they can get some of the players to haul out of bed early on Saturday (although 5AM is what I call early but I know 8AM on a Saturday is early for a college kid!



I ran across this article this morning....it talks about ex-Peoria Central HS great Chris Reynolds.
But the guy who wrote the article doesn't appear to know what he's talking about.
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/08/column_as_universities_cash_in.html

it says...
"I recently mused with Chris Reynolds about these
questions. Now an assistant athletic director at
Western Michigan University, he knows the big time
having played basketball at Indiana for one of the
game's most legendary coaches...."

but this is really weird....Chris Reynolds started in athletic administration at Notre Dame way back in the 90's and served there a couple more years in the early 2000's, and also served as assistant AD at Western Michigan ..but left WMU in like 2001 and has never worked for them since...

He has now been at IU for 6 years, and it's been 9 years since he worked at WMU...
yet this guy says he is still assistant AD at WMU!

Here are the current bio pages for Chris AT Indiana
http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/genrel/reynolds_chris00.html
http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/staffdir/ind-staffdir.html



ISU freshman Terry Johnson is featured in this Youtube video.
Lots of shooting, not a lot of passing....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPG-9A4Gjk&feature=channel_page



Some serious irony and sadness in this story...is it still too late for the kid to change his name and start over?
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime/fugitive-dalcapone-alpacino-morris-arrested-265859.html



....OK -- I must be missing something...

Here's the news release...
"Terps Face Strong Schedule in 2009-10"
http://www.umterps.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/082509aaa.html

...and of course all ACC teams face the exact round robin conference schedule...and there's no denying it'll be tough...

so to claim you have an especially "TOUGH" schedule must mean you have a strong non-conference slate, right??

OK...then here is the entire list of their non-conference opponents...
Charleston Southern (a cupcake)
Fairfield (ultra cupcake)
New Hampshire (are they even D-I?)
Chaminade (I know these guys are NOT D-I)
Cincy
Indiana (should be easy)
Villanova (OK I admit this is better, but Villanova is expected to be way down and outside the Top 40!)
Eastern Kentucky (patsy - sorry EKU fans)
Winston Salem State (automatic easy win)
Florida Atlantic (ditto)
William and Mary (have they ever beaten an ACC team in their history?)

UNC-Greensboro (better than New Hampshire, but seriously??)

then after THREE conference games, on January 19...in mid-season, they have
LONGWOOD!! (wow, who thought of this, maybe they want to start up a JV program at Maryland and needed someone to play)

then the rest of their conference schedule..

so it is realistic that they will go 14-0 or 13-1 in non-conference play!!
http://www.umterps.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/md/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2009-10Sked



Minnesota Timberwolves' top draft pick looks like a lost cause now...
http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/playerbreakingnews.asp?sport=NBA&id=1596&line=117469&spln=1



What....beer and Wisconsin have always gone hand in hand, right??
Not any longer...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-alcoholads-wiscon,0,6225017.story



Grambling State University junior (from Milwaukee) dies during preseason basketball practices....sad story...
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090826/UPDATES02/90826009