The Miami Hurricanes have wrapped up their first week of spring practice and taking the entire week as a whole, there are many positive signs for the 2010 season.  Adewale Ojomo has looked good on the defensive line, after missing the 2009 season because of a broken jaw. His weight is up, as he weighed in about 250 pounds. For those that are a little confused when someone breaks their jaw, it is repaired by wiring ...

Every offseason, a coach and program has to replace the players it has lost to graduation, and more importantly, the NBA Draft. Those players can be superstars, or they can just be the guys that have stuck around with the team for their college years. Either way, it's big for a team to lose players, no matter of the caliber. A positive thing going into this offseason when it comes for John Thompson III is that ...

Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils are looking damn good right about now, and there’s no better time to be hot than late-February and early-March. With that in mind, it’s time to take a look at five keys (or, to put it in K-terms, the Blue Devils’ 2010 “fist”) to Duke advancing to the Final Four this year…Begin Slideshow

I am wondering about something. I was the watching the Georgia Tech basketball game against Boston College and you could see the student sections at Alexander Memorial Coliseum were really pretty empty. It was enough that several Jacket fans noticed and it became a thread on The Hive, a Georgia Tech Message Board. I know when I was a student at Georgia Tech in the 90s during the Bobby Cremins era we'd wait for hours to ...

March Madness is rapidly approaching, but for some teams the madness has already began. Giants would fall, conference titles were won (at least a share of one was), and National Player of the Year candidates showed tv land what all of the hype is about. No. 1 Kansas vs. Oklahoma State The top-ranked Kansas Jayhawks (27-2, 13-1) choked down a dose of tournament-esque basketball Saturday when the unranked Oklahoma State Cowboys (20-8, 8-6) knocked them off 85-77. Typically, ...

In front of sea of orange, Syracuse grabbed a huge win to take home the Big East regular season crown.  It was a record crowd tonight at the Carrier Dome to see a 95-77 Orange victory. Never has an on campus game been more highly attended than tonight's Big East showdown.  Every Syracuse player was on tonight, with six out of seven of their regulars scoring in double figures, a number which really speaks about the depth ...

The college basketball season begins with preseason tournaments in Hawaii, and the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. It seems to have a familiar ending, which will most likely continue this year, here in Indianapolis. When you look at the ACC, you usually talk about Duke and Carolina, and occasionally Maryland, Wake Forest, or Georgia Tech. This year it looks like Duke might be the only contender at a chance to reach the Final Four. The SEC fields a few ...

At this point, my pre-spring predictions have Michigan starting strong again, as they did in 2009. With wins over Connecticut and Notre Dame, Michigan could very well start 3-0 and pick up a great deal of momentum with these next few games, but it will also be important to pay close attention to Bowling Green, Indiana, and Michigan State, as none of them are easy wins.   Week Four: Bowling Green Falcons Why Michigan could lose this game: ...

South Florida (17-11) has probably gotten itself off the Bubble and into the NIT with a 99-93 win over Providence. It’s been questioned whether the Bulls would even make the NIT after self-destructing in the month of February.   The Bulls have been back at full strength for two weeks roster wise, but haven’t gotten close to the team performances before Gilchrist got hurt. That was until tonight. For the first time since his injury, Augustus Gilchrist ...

The stat guys will probably argue for Herschel. The gut guys might just go with Bo. Who's the greatest running back in Southeastern Conference history? Most SEC college football junkies would agree that it probably comes down to either Georgia's Herschel Walker or Bo Jackson of Auburn. Both stars played during the 1980's and each won a Heisman Trophy. Walker left Georgia after only three years and his career rushing totals are still tops in SEC history. Jackson played ...