Welcome to our weekly feature: This Week In Hoops. Every Monday morning we’ll take a quick look back at what we learned from the last week of games and a look forward at this week’s slate of games. This week: upsets, science, and Kobe Bean Bryant.
Read more "This Week in Hoops: Revenge of the Nerds"Important. Very Important.
Read more "Does Bill Self Wear a Toupee? An In-Depth Photo Investigation"Welcome to our new feature: This Week In Hoops. Every Monday morning we’ll take a quick look back at what we learned from the last week of games and a look forward at this week’s slate of games.
Read more "This Week In Hoops: Tournaments, Challenges, and Holiday Cheer"It’s Thanksgiving week! Everyone hold hands and say what you’re thankful for. I’ll go first. (It’s all basketball stuff)
Read more "The Palestra Back Thanksgiving Spectactular"Five Cats come in, Five Cats come out. Coach Calipari is trying something you don’t see in Division I, and it’s working.
Read more "9 Scattered Thoughts About Kentucky, Platoons, and Coach Cal"Gonzaga came out firing Monday night against SMU. Update: they looked really good against St. Joe’s too.
Read more "Gonzaga Is As Good As Advertised, If Not Better"If you’re going to start a blog with the word “Palestra” in the title, what better way to start than arbitrarily ranking the Big Five schools in a number of categories? That won’t polarize my readership or anger the diehard fans because I said I didn’t like their uniforms or something, right? Yeah, that would never happen. Let’s get to it.
Read more "Ranking the Big Five, in Every Way Possible"It’s November. Let’s make some predictions that will look ridiculous (or brilliant) in March.
Read more "The Predictions Post (From Someone Whose Predictions Almost Never Work Out)"
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