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Bud's College Basketball Math: While Syracuse Lost 1, Kentucky Lost 7 (PS; Poliquin)
By now, it's been made pretty clear that this idea of Kentucky's drive-by basketball players sticking around campus for only a few months before moving onto the NBA has become dog-bites-man stuff.
Shrug … yawn … nod.
Just as squirrels chase squirrels, so too do John Calipari's Wildcats race each other out of Lexington. Rites of spring, both.
But, geez. Seven of Calipari's swells moving onto pro ball? Seven of his student/athletes forsaking higher education? Seven of his Hessians opting for pay raises?
Even by today's standards of college-as-factory, of Kentucky-as-assembly-line, of Calipari-as-charlatan, that's a big number.
Seven? Seven non-senior Wildcats dropping out? That's more than half of that part of the UK team that counts … and that bunch is taking 85 percent of the points and 77 percent of the rebounds with them.
(And some folks around here got verklempt when lone wolf Chris McCullough, Jim Boeheim's 6-foot-10 scholar, decided to leave the Syracuse library behind.)
The alphabetical list of Big Blue defectors: Devin Booker, Willie Cauley-Stein, Aaron Harrison, Andrew Harrison, Dakari Johnson, Trey Lyles and Karl-Anthony Towns. They're all gone, or soon will be.
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College Basketball News
ACC-Atlantic 10 Event to Begin in December of 2015 (cbssports.com; Rothstein)
The ACC and Atlantic 10 will take part in a doubleheader at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., from 2015-2017, multiple sources told CBSSports.com on Thursday.
This will be similar to the "challenge" events we've seen from power conferences in the preseason.
The ACC and Atlantic 10 announced the doubleheader in a joint press release last spring, but more specifics are now known. There will be one doubleheader per year each December from 2015-2017, according to another source. Official matchups have yet to be set, but sources said the games should be set by May 1.
The agreement is part of a deal between the two conferences when the Atlantic 10 agreed to leave the Barclays Center in 2017 and 2018 for the conference tournament. The league will move its postseason to Pittsburgh in 2017 and Washington in 2018 before returning to Brooklyn in 2019.
The ACC Tournament will be held at the Barclays Center in 2017 and 2018.
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Bobby Hurley Leaves Buffalo to Take Over at Arizona State (PS; AP)
Bobby Hurley grew up around basketball, playing for a coaching great who just happened to be his father. He was a feisty point guard who led Duke to consecutive national championships and proved his coaching chops by leading Buffalo to the NCAA Tournament during his second season.
With a background like that, he proved to be the perfect choice to take over Arizona State's up-and-down program.
Arizona State hired Hurley to replace Herb Sendek on Thursday, hoping the cerebral-yet-passionate former point guard can lead the Sun Devils to consistent success.
"Bobby is energetic, passionate and tough, and his contagious competitive fire will bring unmatched vigor to our men's basketball program," Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson said in a statement. "A teacher, first and foremost, he is a proven winner as both a player and a coach, and understands the steps it takes to be a champion."
Arizona State's program could use a lift.
Though universally respected for his intellect and forthright ways, Sendek could not turn the Sun Devils into consistent winners. Arizona State reached the NCAA Tournament twice during his nine seasons, most recently in 2014, and struggled to gain a foothold in the deep Pac-12.
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Bud's College Basketball Math: While Syracuse Lost 1, Kentucky Lost 7 (PS; Poliquin)
By now, it's been made pretty clear that this idea of Kentucky's drive-by basketball players sticking around campus for only a few months before moving onto the NBA has become dog-bites-man stuff.
Shrug … yawn … nod.
Just as squirrels chase squirrels, so too do John Calipari's Wildcats race each other out of Lexington. Rites of spring, both.
But, geez. Seven of Calipari's swells moving onto pro ball? Seven of his student/athletes forsaking higher education? Seven of his Hessians opting for pay raises?
Even by today's standards of college-as-factory, of Kentucky-as-assembly-line, of Calipari-as-charlatan, that's a big number.
Seven? Seven non-senior Wildcats dropping out? That's more than half of that part of the UK team that counts … and that bunch is taking 85 percent of the points and 77 percent of the rebounds with them.
(And some folks around here got verklempt when lone wolf Chris McCullough, Jim Boeheim's 6-foot-10 scholar, decided to leave the Syracuse library behind.)
The alphabetical list of Big Blue defectors: Devin Booker, Willie Cauley-Stein, Aaron Harrison, Andrew Harrison, Dakari Johnson, Trey Lyles and Karl-Anthony Towns. They're all gone, or soon will be.
...
College Basketball News
ACC-Atlantic 10 Event to Begin in December of 2015 (cbssports.com; Rothstein)
The ACC and Atlantic 10 will take part in a doubleheader at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., from 2015-2017, multiple sources told CBSSports.com on Thursday.
This will be similar to the "challenge" events we've seen from power conferences in the preseason.
The ACC and Atlantic 10 announced the doubleheader in a joint press release last spring, but more specifics are now known. There will be one doubleheader per year each December from 2015-2017, according to another source. Official matchups have yet to be set, but sources said the games should be set by May 1.
The agreement is part of a deal between the two conferences when the Atlantic 10 agreed to leave the Barclays Center in 2017 and 2018 for the conference tournament. The league will move its postseason to Pittsburgh in 2017 and Washington in 2018 before returning to Brooklyn in 2019.
The ACC Tournament will be held at the Barclays Center in 2017 and 2018.
...
Bobby Hurley Leaves Buffalo to Take Over at Arizona State (PS; AP)
Bobby Hurley grew up around basketball, playing for a coaching great who just happened to be his father. He was a feisty point guard who led Duke to consecutive national championships and proved his coaching chops by leading Buffalo to the NCAA Tournament during his second season.
With a background like that, he proved to be the perfect choice to take over Arizona State's up-and-down program.
Arizona State hired Hurley to replace Herb Sendek on Thursday, hoping the cerebral-yet-passionate former point guard can lead the Sun Devils to consistent success.
"Bobby is energetic, passionate and tough, and his contagious competitive fire will bring unmatched vigor to our men's basketball program," Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson said in a statement. "A teacher, first and foremost, he is a proven winner as both a player and a coach, and understands the steps it takes to be a champion."
Arizona State's program could use a lift.
Though universally respected for his intellect and forthright ways, Sendek could not turn the Sun Devils into consistent winners. Arizona State reached the NCAA Tournament twice during his nine seasons, most recently in 2014, and struggled to gain a foothold in the deep Pac-12.
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