South Carolina basketball had promise after Darrin Horn arrived in Columbia, but it's been on a downward spiral since his first year as the Gamecocks basketball coach.After sharing the SEC East title with the Tennessee Volunteers in the 2008-2009 season, the Gamecocks have finished with a losing record in back-to-back seasons. The energy appears to have left the program and fan support is dwindling down.However, the new season always brings new hope and this year ...

Has there ever been more anticipation surrounding the college basketball season?Have you ever seen people so excited to finally see some basketball on their TV besides NBA 2K and Hardwood classics?Basketball fans are at the point now where they don't really care if they are watching their favorite team or their favorite player. We just want to see some basketball, so it only makes sense more and more people will turn to college basketball.The sport ...

Well, this isn't quite the start Mason was expecting.Going into the year, Mason fans had dreams of grandeur about what to expect. We believed our team would steamroll their first two games, have their big date with Virginia Tech, and maybe even prepare for Syracuse in the Garden.Unfortunately, things haven't exactly gone as planned for the Patriots.After a nailbiting victory in their home opener over URI, Mason fell flat against Florida International, a team they ...

Someone led Northwestern in scoring with 28 points on Friday.  And it was not John Shurna.  In fact, Shurna barely scored half that total. To anyone who follows Northwestern, or the Big Ten in general, you would assume that if Shurna put up only 15 points, the Wildcats would not win.  That was not the case on Friday in Charleston, as Drew Crawford led Northwestern to a four-point win over Tulsa.  The win puts the Wildcats ...

South Carolina basketball had promise after Darrin Horn arrived in Columbia, but it has been on a downward spiral since his first year as the Gamecocks basketball coach.After sharing the SEC East title with the Tennessee Volunteers in the 2008-2009 season, the Gamecocks have finished with a losing record in back-to-back seasons. The energy appears to have left the program and fan support is dwindling down.However, the new season always brings new hope and this ...

Trevon Harmon said he has hit a couple of game-winning shots in high school, but has never hit one at the collegiate level. That changed Friday night, as the Pasadena, Calif. native sank a three-pointer from the top of the key with 2.8 seconds left to give Cleveland State a 67-64 victory over St. Bonaventure in front of 3,073 fans at the Wolstein Center. With the win, CSU improves to 3-0, ...

Notre Dame's men's basketball team rolled Delaware State 93-69 last night to improve to 4-0 on the season.The win was impressive in that the Irish played without starters Tim Abromaitis, Eric Atkins, and Joey Brooks.  They dressed only seven scholarship players.Delaware State is not the same team that went to the NCAA tournament back in 2005, but they did come into the game with some firepower. The other night the Hornets played Georgia Tech tough ...

Iona has won its first game of the season Friday afternoon by defeating Western Michigan 94-88 at the 5-Hour Energy Puerto Rico Tip Off in San Juan. The Gaels, now 1-1 on the year, were led by senior forward Kyle Smyth who finished the afternoon with 24 points and seven rebounds. Smyth connected on seven three-point shots of 13 attempts. He was eight of 14 from the floor on the day. Senior point guard ...

Legendary college basketball coach Jim Boeheim put his own reputation, as well as that of Syracuse University, firmly on the line with his support of longtime assistant Bernie Fine, who is accused of having molested two young ball boys for the school's basketball team during the 1980s.That's not to say that Fine is necessarily innocent or guilty in the matter or that Boeheim is entirely wrong to back him if he believes in Fine's innocence ...

Championships.Titles.These are accomplishments that mark success no matter how small they are, which is especially important when you are trying to re-build program.Alabama basketball has an opportunity to capture a championship in only its fifth game of the season.Yes, it's just the Puerto Rico Tip-off, but when you want to get where many other programs are you enter a tournament to win it and that's exactly the position Anthony Grant and company are in.It started ...