College basketball

Team X starts five upperclassmen, plays tight defense and can bury its opponents with threes. Team Y has just four upperclassmen on its entire roster, a sophomore point guard fond of passing like Ricky Rubio and a pair of forwards fond of dunking like Shawn Kemp. The two teams meet tonight in the last game…

A gift was waiting for me when I moved to Boston last September. My roommate, moving out of his studio apartment near Brigham Circle and into a three bedroom in Fenway, brought with him something that I had missed for three years. It was glitchy cable box, but it had one premium channel it wasn’t…

When you watch a basketball game, or practically anything you intend to analyze for deeper understanding, there’s sometimes a tendency to focus on specific moments.  A missed 3-pointer from the wing.  An offensive rebound that leads to a three-point play.  A questionable offensive foul.  In an effort to understand, you cut up minutes into seconds,…

The 2013 NBA Trade Deadline passed over 24 hours ago.  We’re a month and a half removed from the BCS National Championship Game, weeks past the Super Bowl and over a month remains before Opening day and Amen Corner.  The time to turn to college basketball is now… or maybe in March, you know, whatever.…