Studies in Mediocrity: The Middle of the Big East

By Chilltown
Way back in the halcyon days of Storming the Court (okay, 3 months ago) I wrote a Big East preview looking at the coming season. While much of what I said was flat out wrong (see Louisville being the second best team and Pitt being a disappointment), the underlying premise has been borne [...]

Blogpoll Week 10: Can We Just Rank the Top 10?

    It appears that the mediocrity in college football this season has spread to everywhere but the top 10 teams in the land. Conference play has bared that fact to the college basketball fandom, and made it especially clear to me when I tried to resume rank teams 15-25. A quick reminder: resume ranking is [...]

Weekend Review: We’re Baaaack

    Did you miss us? After a much-needed weeklong hiatus that probably halved our readership from 30 to 15, we are back and ready for the meat of conference play. Do you know what’s even better? Only 2 months to Selection Sunday! Buckle up, kids, it’s going to be a wild ride.
Last weekend was a [...]

Blogpoll Ballot Week 9

   By Chilltown
Sorry, folks, its been a very busy few days for me. Here my Week 9 Blogpoll ballot to tide you over until more real posts about the start of conference play come tomorrow. A quick note on the poll: there are certainly not 25 teams that deserved to be ranked in America. Once [...]

SWAC Basketball: Tetnus Shots Required

By Chilltown
By now, almost all college basketball fans know about the six remaining undefeated teams in the land. However, it is much more interesting to inspect the other side of the coin: the defeateds. There are 8 teams left in Division I basketball that have not gotten their first win against a [...]

The Official Blogpoll: Week Eight

   By Chilltown
The consensus blogpoll for week:

    Memphis
North Carolina
Kansas
Washington State
UCLA
Michigan State
Tennessee
Duke
Georgetown
Marquette
Indiana
Texas A&M
Butler
Dayton
Texas
Vanderbilt
Mississippi
Villanova
Rhode Island
Pittsburgh
Wisconsin
Clemson
USC
Arizona
St. Mary’s

Nothing shocking at the top of the poll; Memphis has been at the top spot since Week 2. It will be interesting to see if they can stay there as the schedule takes a turn for the worse in Conference USA play. [...]

Blogpoll Ballot: Week 8

While the full Blogpoll ballot will not be published until Wednesday, my Blogpoll ballot undergoes yet another major shakeup. This is to be expected with resume ranking early in the season, as teams have less of a body of work to fall back on after a loss; on the flipside, a team can leap-frog a [...]

Weekend in Review: Great Games Galore

       By Chilltown
While last weekend was probably the most hyped non-conference weekend of the season, this weekend had perhaps the best games. We had double overtime thrillers, upsets, buzzer beaters, and two more undefeateds biting the dust. Let’s start with the buzzer beaters.
The Southern Illinois-Butler game certainly lived up to its billing, as both [...]

Weekend Hoops Preview: Holiday Edition

By Chilltown
2008 is fast approaching, but before we wave goodbye to 2007, there are some very good games in college basketball on this four-day weekend. The action kicks off tonight with two matchups of great Mid-Majors. First up is Butler vs. Southern Illinois. These two perennial mid-major powers were both [...]

Omnibus Post

Since Congress sneaked an omnibus spending bill by the media and the country on Christmas Eve, I figured we here at Storming the Court could provide you with an omnibus college basketball post to get you caught up on this holiday week of hoops. Firstly, I have some very exciting news [...]