Does the Geographical Location of a Program’s Home City Have an Impact on a Team’s Home Court Winning Percentage?
By: Ethan Hennessy Being a Geography major I have wondered if teams that play in college basketball “travel destination” cities have an inherent advantage of higher home court winning percentages due to visiting teams not from the area being distracted by all that these cities have to offer. In order to answer this question I […]
CIT/CBI Bracketology Number One 2018-19 December 15th 2018
By: Ethan Hennessy I am in my second season doing CIT/CBI bracketology for Happening Hoops. I do this because I genuinely enjoy following these tournaments, and believe they do not get a ton of coverage despite some good teams playing in them each year. In both 2017 and 2018 I was the first source to […]
Northwestern Outlast Georgia Tech’s Second Half Comeback in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge
By: Ethan Hennessy On Wednesday night we were treated to a rematch of last year’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge game in Atlanta. A few things had changed though some key players for both sides had departed. Northwestern was without Bryant McIntosh, and Georgia Tech had seen Ben Lammers and Josh Okogie depart. Also, the location was […]
John Beilein Interview
These are the questions I asked Michigan head coach John Beilein in the post game press conference following his number 19 wolverines beating the Northwood University Timberwolves in their exhibition 90-58 on Friday November 2nd in Ann Arbor. Ethan Hennessy: “Coach Beilein I know tonight’s game was a blowout, but is there anything you want […]
Number 19 Michigan Dominates Northwood in Ann Arbor
On Friday night in Ann Arbor the number 19 Michigan Wolverines took the court for the first time since falling to Villanova at the 2018 national championship game in San Antonio Texas in April when they faced the Timberwolves of Northwood University. Michigan did have three key offseason departures from their roster Mortiz Wagner (1st […]
Young Broncos Easily Handle Northwood in Kalamazoo
The Tipoff of my 2018-19 college basketball season. It was a tale of two halves for Western Michigan in today’s exhibition game vs. Northwood University inside University Arena in Kalamazoo Michigan. The first half was plagued with Bronco missed free-throws and turnovers that allowed a scrappy Northwood team to stay with WMU punch for […]
1-27 Ranking All the College Basketball Arenas I Have Seen Games At
27. Bender Arena (American) Number of games seen at venue: 1 Most recent trip to: Jan 2nd 2018 Sorry to Bender Arena at American University, but out of 27 College Basketball Arenas you claim the prize of the one I least enjoyed seeing a game at. When I went to Bender Arena home of the […]
2018 Charity Exhibition Tracker
Last year for the first time ever the NCAA allowed teams to participate in pre-season charity exhibitions to benefit hurricane relief efforts from Hurricane Harvey which struck Texas. Many teams took advantage by raising thousands of dollars for those effected, and fans got to see their teams play games in late October and early November. […]
Top 10 College Basketball Rivalries
Honorable Mentions: Iowa vs Iowa State Marquette vs Wisconsin Syracuse vs Georgetown Missouri vs Illinois Number 10 West Virginia vs Pitt wwnrradio.com 75 miles through the Appalachian Mountains along I-79 separate the University of Pittsburgh and the University of West Virginia. The Backyard Brawl is what the fans call it, and West Virginia vs. Pitt […]
Is the Pac 12 a High Major Conference in Men’s Basketball? Is it even the best league out West?
The PAC 12 or in its former days the Pac 10 has always been regarded as the best college basketball conference west of the rocky mountains, but is it time to re-evaluate that belief? Is the PAC 12 still the best college basketball conference out west? Furthermore, are we correctly categorizing the basketball portion of […]
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