Big East Basketball Preview

August 25 2009

My Big East Basketball Preview (The most overrated conference in college basketball)

Top Players
1 Jerome Dyson (UCONN)
2 Greg Monroe (Georgetown)
3 Lazar Hayward (Marquette)
4 Devin Ebanks (West Virginia)
5 Keon Lawrence (Pitt)
6 Stanley Robinson (UCONN)
7 Kemba Walker (UCONN)
8 Scottie Reynolds (Villanova)
9 Corey Fisher (Villanova)
10 Corey Stokes (Villanova)

Projected Standings
1 Villanova
2 West Virginia
3 Georgetown
4 UConn
5 Notre Dame
6 Pittsburgh
7 Louisville
8 Syracuse
9 Seton Hall
10 Providence
11 Marquette
12 Cincinnati
13 Rutgers
14 St John's
15 South Florida
16 DePaul

Top 5 Non Conference games
1 Louisville @ Kentucky
2 Uconn @ Kentucky
3 Syracuse @ Florida
4 Texas @ UConn
5 Maryland @ Villanova

Big 12 Basketball Preview

August 23 2009

My Big 12 Basketball Preview

Top Players
1 Cole Aldrich (Kansas)
2 Sherron Collins (Kansas)
3 Damion James (Texas)
4 Willie Warren (Oklahoma)
5 Avery Bradley (Texas)
6 Wally Judge (Kansas State)
7 Jordan Hamilton (Texas)
8 Craig Brackins (Iowa State)
9 Lacedarius Dunn (Baylor)
10 J.T. Tiller (Missouri)

Projected Standings
1 Kansas
2 Texas
3 Oklahoma
4 Texas A&M
5 Oklahoma State
6 Kansas State
7 Missouri
8 Nebraska
9 Iowa State
10 Baylor
11 Texas Tech
12 Colorado

Top 5 Non Conference games
1 Kansas vs Memphis
2 Kansas at UCLA
3 Arizona at Oklahoma
4 Texas at UConn
5 Colorado at Gonzaga

The College Football AP Poll

August 22 2009

The Preseason College Football AP Poll is out... The top 5 are
Florida
Texas
Oklahoma
USC
Alabama

The Florida Gators received the most first place votes (58 of 60) since USC in 2007 (62 of 65)

Big Ten Basketball Preview

August 21 2009

My Big 10 Basketball Preview...

Top Players:
1 Kalin Lucas (Michigan State)
2 Robbie Hummel (Purdue)
3 Talor Battle (Penn State)
4 Raymar Morgan (Michigan State)
5 E'Twuan Moore (Purdue)
6 Manny Harris (Michigan)
7 Mike Tisdale (Illinois)
8 Ralph Simpson III (Minnesota)
9 Kevin Coble (Northwestern)
10 William Buford (Ohio State)

Projected Standings
1 Michigan State
2 Purdue
3 Minnesota
4 Ohio State
5 Illinois
6 Northwestern
7 Penn State
8 Wisconsin
9 Indiana
10 Michigan
11 Iowa

Top 5 Non Conference games
1 Michigan State vs North Carolina (Last year's Championship game)
2 Duke at Wisconsin (Big 10/ACC Challenge)
3 Michigan State at Texas
4 Michigan State vs Gonzaga
5 Purdue vs Wake Forest

The Butkus Award Watchlist

August 21 2009

The Butkus Award list for 09 is out. Some of the top players on the list are Sean Lee and Navarro Bowman (Penn State), Chris Galippo (USC), Dont'a Hightower, Rolando McClain (Alabama), Ryan Reynolds (Oklahoma), Brandon Spikes (Florida) and Martez Wilson (Illinois)