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Just wondering …

Are you watching tomorrow and Friday? Are you watching because you have a favorite team involved, an alma mater, or just a team you follow? Are you watching just because you love college hoops?

Are you watching because there might be upsets and there almost always are buzzer-beater games on the two maddest days [...]

OK. Pete Abraham, the king of all bloggers, is really throwing down the gauntlet when it comes to the NCAAs. He calls himself  “all knowing” because he covered college hoops before he became the Mets beat guy, then the Yankees beat guy/internet god. Somebody tell him Ben Gordon doesn’t play for UConn anymore. And Kevin [...]

Brackets day! The day in which it really doesn’t matter how much or how little (in my case) you actually know about college basketball.

Hey, I enjoy college hoops. But I couldn’t tell you, right now, without looking, if Valparaiso is in or out, or even if that’s how you spell it.

But I have won these stupid [...]

You may know by now that Brittany Shields overcame her knee popping out to lead Haldane to the state Class C championship today.

Bet you didn’t know that she overcome a pre-game hot foot, too. Her roomate and good friend Scotti King was using a flat iron to straighten her hair in the hotelroom, when Sheilds stepped [...]

Briarcliff’s girls won the state Class B championship, and Haldane goes for the Class C title tomorrow in Troy.

Glens Falls will be dark for boys basketball teams from Section 1 tomorrow.

For the first time since 2003, Section 1 won’t have multiple boys champions. It won’t have any.

And for only the second time since 1992, Section [...]

Well it’s a blowout now. 57-35 Jamesville-DeWitt over Peekskill early in the fourth quarter. J-D had a 16-0 run and stretched that to 25-4. Everything’s gone wrong for the 25-0, three-time defending state champs, including awful shooting, four fouls on Mookie Jones, and a technical foul on coach Lou Panzanaro.This will truly be a remarkable [...]

Well, it’s not a blowout. Peekskill is up 26-22 on Jamesville-DeWitt at the half. This game is going along at a pace that makes a good game of checkers seem exciting. Slow, deliberate. You have to think that pace is right up J-D’s alley. But, as average as Peekskill has played so far, it still has led pretty [...]

I’m blogging before 8 a.m. That doesn’t happen often. But then Peekskill doesn’t play a lot of state semifinal games at 10:45.I wrote a column today about Peekskill’s runaway run to this point, averaging a 39.6 point margin of victory over its last 10 games, but putting its 25-0 record and three straight state championships [...]

Here’s why you can’t really, truly compare the 13-game point streak of these Rangers to the 14-game point streak by the ‘93-94 Rangers.

In ‘93-94 you didn’t get points for overtime losses or shootout losses. If you lost an overtime, you lost the game, and got nothing. There were no shootouts.

The 14-game streak run off by [...]