On the latest episode of Listen In With KNN on Fox Sports 1340AM, host Kelsey Nicole Nelson welcomed former NBA player and a member of the Illinois’ 1989 “Flyin’ Illini” Final Four team Marcus Liberty to the show. Speaking of his journey, he was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Liberty didn’t love basketball at […]
On the latest episode of Listen In With KNN on Fox Sports 1340AM, host Kelsey Nicole Nelson welcomed former NBA Champion and the University of Arizona Wildcats assistant coach Jason “The Jet” Terry to the show. Speaking of his journey, the Seattle, Washington native attended the University of Arizona for four years. He played under […]
Last year the NCAA began a tradition of revealing what the committee would have as the top-16 seeds if Selection Sunday were to come early. The first revealing for the 2018-2019 season comes this Saturday; but first, here’s were my rankings stand heading into the final month of the regular season. *These rankings take into […]
It was only a few weeks ago when it seemed as if March’s tournament would be a mostly foregone conclusion; with the top ten teams in the country looking unstoppable. That outlook quickly took a turn in the span of only a week. WEEK 11 RECAP Duke lost to an unranked Syracuse team at home, […]
During a week highlighted by Cam Reddish going off in the weekend’s blockbuster matchup; the top ten in last week’s AP rankings all went undefeated. As for the rest of the nation; it comes back to everyone’s favorite word…parity. UP AND DOWN THEY GO Outside of the top-ten; teams were on a rollercoaster with with […]
Tuesday night’s loss at home to rival UNC exposed a couple of weaknesses in the 15th-ranked NC State Wolfpack. On Saturday, at least one of those afflictions threatened to rear its ugly head. Despite being one of the hottest shooting teams in the nation, the Wolfpack suffered droughts throughout the loss to UNC and had […]
For the past three weeks, the top six teams in college basketball remained unchanged. With the conference play getting underway throughout the Nation; and the season ending injury to the man known as “Dok”, that was bound to change sooner rather than later. Duke, Michigan, Tennessee, and Virginia all went undefeated in the first week […]
The last day of 2018 just so happened to fall on a Monday meaning we get to go into the new year with a fresh AP rankings list. While we know these week nine rankings, released on December 31, 2018 will be nearly unrecognizable by time March 17, 2019 rolls (Selection Sunday) rolls around; today’s […]
At this point in the season we’re just over a month into the 2018-19 NCAA Men’s Basketball season and only one thing is for certain; no team is a lock to win the National Championship in April. We’ve seen a number one team fall in the rankings while still being undefeated, two number one teams […]
It feels like every other month now that we’re hearing of a new scandal involving NCAA athletics. For the most part we get the explanation that the school will conduct a “third-party” investigation resulting in a few fall-men losing their jobs, and business goes on as usual. Except there in lies the issue; with the […]