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College Basketball: Final Rankings of the 2013-2014 Season
The end to the 2014 NCAA Tournament means the end of the College Basketball season as well, and final rankings being handed out. Traditionally, the national champions, UConn, get the number one spot with the losers in the final, Kentucky, taking the runner-up position, although it’s probably clear to most they weren’t the best teams in the country.
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LeBron James Needs (With a Capital N) Dwyane Wade to Win Another Championship
There has been this theory running around lately that the Miami Heat can win a third NBA title (in a row I might add) even if Dwyane Wade doesn’t play. The truth? As decent as Toney Douglas might be as the plug in guy at shooting guard, LeBron James isn’t entering that three-peat elite club without Wade playing in the NBA playoffs.
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Joe Dumars – The Rise & Fall of a General Manager
The NBA is a general manager’s (or other titles that all do the same thing) league. More stats, more money, more decisions on team building come from upstairs, while most head coaches simply make the pieces work. Joe Dumars seemed to be on the path to greatness through the early years of his tenure with the Detroit Pistons, but the failures and bad choices he’s made since building that championship team have finally caught up with him, costing him his job.
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Teams With the Most NCAA Tournament Championships
With a fourth national championship, UConn join an elite group that includes Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina and UCLA of basketball programs to win the NCAA Tournament at least four times.
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UConn Over Kentucky – Back With a Vengeance
The 2014 College Basketball national champions is a team that was banned from the tournament a year earlier, which has only made UConn hungrier and better when they had a shot at their fourth national title, beating Kentucky 60-54 with another huge night from Shabazz Napier.
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College Athletes Unionizing – Alabama & Texas Make More Money Than the NHL & Most of the NBA
Once College Basketball for 2014 is over, the main thing in college sports that will grab the headlines will be the first steps in the attempt of college athletes, mostly football players, to unionize with the main goal starting to get paid for their services to universities, which means being given a piece of the huge money pie that is College Athletics, mostly coming from TV Deals.
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Los Angeles Clippers – Have Bigger Fish to Fry
How quickly things change. A win for the Los Angeles Clippers over the Los Angeles Lakers used to be huge. Now? It’s expected of them, and it’s surprising when the game is actually close. This time it ended in a 120-97 victory with the usual big nights from Blake Griffin and Chris Paul.
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San Antonio Spurs – A Machine That Doesn’t Break Down
The San Antonio Spurs make it to 60 wins this season, beating the Memphis Grizzlies 112-92 thanks to Kawhi Leonard and Manu Ginobili stepping up after an early exit from Tony Parker, that didn’t really bother the usual rhythm of the team with the best record in the NBA.
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Houston Rockets – James Harden Gets Plenty of Jeremy Lin Help
The Houston Rockets needed some late fourth quarter heroics from James Harden and Jeremy Lin in order to overcome the Denver Nuggets in a 130-125 overtime with as Chandler Parsons and Omer Asik also lent in a big hand during different stages of the game, once again starting some sort of winning streak while getting closer to securing home court advantage for at least one round in the playoffs.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Offense Needs to be Coached too
The Oklahoma City Thunder have a head coach who seems to be unwilling to make any sort of offensive adjustment while relying on Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant trying to win games with pull up jumpers from beyond the arc. If it works, he looks like a genius, but in the 122-116 loss to the Phoenix Suns, it once again pointed towards a glaring problem with the team.