Archive for February, 2010

3 Up, 3 Down

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

In what was a very low scoring affair, the Michigan State Spartans defeated the #3, Robbie Hummel-less Purdue Boilermakers 53-44. Purdue had held the two point advantage 28-26 over the Spartans at the half, but the loss of their star player showed, as they only scored 16 second half points on their way to being [...]

Anderson, Cowboys Slay #1 Jayhawks

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Led by a barrage of three-point shots, the Oklahoma State Cowboys used a 53% 3-point shooting mark to down the 1 loss Kansas Jayhawks in Stillwater. The Jayhawks came into the game looking for a win to stay undefeated this season in Big 12 play, but no one must have told junior James Anderson and [...]

Kentucky Suffers Second Loss

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

After the Tennessee Volunteers secured an 11-point halftime lead against the #2 ranked Kentucky Wildcats, things began to fall apart. The Vols had built up a 19 -point lead, but looked on in agony as the Wildcats — led by Demarcus Cousins — slowly erased that deficit. After working the entire half to come back, [...]

UConn Back in Tourney: For Now

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

With an 11-point win over the #7 team in the nation, the UConn Huskies are seemingly back in the discussion for an NCAA tournament bid. After starting off the season with non-impressive wins over teams such as Colgate, Hofstra, UCF, Boston, Maine, and Iona (as does every team in the nation) and jumping out to [...]

NBA Trade Deadline Report Card

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Now that the dust has settled from the trade deadline and new uniforms have been handed out, it is time to give out grades to the various teams that either helped or hurt their chances at making a playoff run. When all was said and done, 35 players and three draft picks were exchanged between [...]

No Amare, No Problem

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

The Eastern Conferences #1 team, and arguably the best team in the NBA, found another weapon to add to LeBron James’ arsenal Thursday as the Cleveland Cavaliers made a three team deal  involving 6 players with the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Clippers. The Cavaliers were making a push to acquire the Sun’s Amare Stoudemire, [...]

Dunk Contest Lacks Luster

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

When the contestant list came out this year for the NBA dunk contest, I was certain that it was a joke. Aside from defending champion Nate Robinson and an extremely solid player in Gerald Wallace, they had a rookie in DeMar DeRozan from the sub-par Toronto Raptors, and a role player at best from the [...]

Mavericks Bolster Chances with Trade

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

7 players, 2 teams, millions of dollars, and great talent. Each of these things were exchanged Saturday as the woeful Washington Wizards made a trade with the Southwest leading Dallas Mavericks. The 17-33 Wizards sent solid scorer Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood, and backup guard DeShawn Stevenson to the 32-20 Mavericks in exchange for Josh Howard, [...]

Carter, Howard Heating Up

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Having won 8 of their last 10 games, the Orlando Magic, after struggling in the early stages of January, are finally hitting their stride as they head into the All-Star break and stars Vince Carter and Dwight Howard are a huge reason why. After an absolute horrendous January shooting less than  30% and scoring less [...]

The Aints Are No More

Monday, February 8th, 2010

44 years of anguish were dissolved Sunday night as the final seconds ticked off the clock and the New Orleans Saints hoisted their first Lombardi Trophy in franchise history. After years of sub-6 win seasons and whiffs at making the playoffs, the Saints knew that things could be better this year with new defensive coordinator [...]