Eugene, OR – The Oregon Ducks gave up late leads in losses to Arizona and USC in their prior two games. It didn’t look like they would need to worry about that in tonight’s match-up with UCLA as they took an 18-point lead early in the second half and still held an 11-point lead with […]
Arizona Edges Red-Hot Stanford
Palo Alto, CA – The No. 14 Arizona Wildcats (16-4) came into a red-hot Stanford team (11-9), winners of five in a row including knocking off the No. 16 Arizona State. A sell-out crowd got to watch a nail-biting game. The game went down to the wire but Arizona managed to pull out a 73-71 […]
Clemson Stays Undefeated At Home Topping Notre Dame
Clemson, SC- The No. 20 Clemson Tigers (16-3) faced off against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (13-7) in Littlejohn Coliseum today with Clemson winning, 67-58. The loss makes four in a row for the Irish after starting 3-0 in conference play. They are still struggling to find their way after losing their leader, Bonzie Colson, […]
Young, Manek Power Sooners over Cowboys
Norman, OK – Trae Young is averaging 29 points and 10 assists per game through the first two months of his freshman year, and is on pace to surpass “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s historic points per game production in a single season. Tonight, in Oklahoma’s 109-89 win over Oklahoma State, he came within one rebound of […]
R.I.P. Dick Kelley
NetScouts Basketball mourns the passing Thursday of Dick Kelley, longtime assistant athletics director for media relations at Boston College, after a three-year battle with ALS. Dick was 48. Dick and his staff have always been a pleasure to work with and have consistently made us feel at home at Boston College games. Kelley was honored […]
Six Basketball Tournaments in Six Days
My annual east coast trip for the start of the college basketball season is over. I covered six tournaments in six nights traveling between New York City and Rhode Island and made it back home by Thanksgiving despite a major rain and wind storm. The first event on Thursday night was the 2K Sports Classic, […]
USA Men’s All Stars wrap up Tour with win over Latvia and Loss to China
The NetScouts Basketball USA Men’s All-Stars held off a pesky and determined Latvian team 63-58. Mike Moore led the USA off the bench with 12 points while Devin Sweetney led the team with 14 points. Robert Crawford also helped off the bench with 8 points. Moore and Crawford sparked a 10-2 run at the end […]
Canada Tops USA Men’s All-Stars in 2OT Thriller
The NetScouts Basketball USA Men’s All-Stars lost their third heartbreaking game, as Canada prevailed in a double-overtime thriller 95-93. The USA staged a great comeback in this game. Canada jumped out to a 16-point lead after one quarter and extended the lead the 23 points at halftime. The lead moved to 26 points early in […]