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Articles Written by: JAY BILAS
As part of game preparation, most coaching staffs provide in-depth scouting reports to their teams, including detailed personnel reports and the opponent's offensive sets and defensive alignments. Scouting reports provided to the players vary ...
From JAY BILAS,
ESPN,
11 Feb 2009
Twenty years ago, Connecticut and Gonzaga could hardly have been called "major players" on the national stage. UConn's glory days were regional, and many of them were spent in the Yankee Conference. Most of the American sporting public had no earthly ...
From JAY BILAS, ESPN.COM,
ESPN,
18 Dec 2008
I love basketball. I don't like the basketball business. Basketball, from the junior circuit on, has too many elements of a dirty business, and there are too few people willing to stand up and protest the negative influences in the game.
I am not at ...
From JAY BILAS,
ESPN,
15 May 2008
Some of the things I'll remember from the 2007-08 season:
Remember when Memphis won an NCAA-record 38 games but lost a heart-breaker in the finale?
• I'll remember how impressive Memphis was all season long, and how no team has had a national ...
From JAY BILAS,
ESPN,
10 Apr 2008
DeCOURCY: I've got UCLA, Memphis, North
Carolina and Tennessee. There's no question in my
mind that Kansas has better talent and more of the
right components to win the national title than the
Vols, but the Jayhawks have not gotten it done in
big ...
From MIKE DECOURCY, RYAN FAGAN, JAY BILAS AND JERRY PAL,
Sporting News,
10 Mar 2008
North Carolina: 13-0
The Good: The Tar Heels are unbeaten, leading the ACC in scoring by a wide margin, have the leading candidate for Player of the Year in Tyler Hansbrough (who is living up to every crazy expectation we had for him), own the top ...
From JAY BILAS,
ESPN,
3 Jan 2008
I think that basketball is the best game ever invented, and that college basketball is the very best game of all. To me, no other game can compare for star power on the court and the sidelines, team play, passion, excitement and the fair determination ...
From JAY BILAS,
ESPN,
13 Nov 2007
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Making two cross-country trips in two days is not my idea of fun, but spending the day with six surefire locks for the NBA draft made all that traveling well worth the effort, and then some.
But on Thursday, I got that ...
From JAY BILAS,
ESPN,
25 May 2007
Spring has sprung. The Final Four and the Masters have concluded, the azaleas have bloomed and every college player of any substance is scheduling a news conference to announce his decision of whether to stay in college or submit his name to the NBA ...
From JAY BILAS,
ESPN,
24 Apr 2007
Here are some season-ending thoughts after a Florida repeat and many changes in the coaching ranks:
Return of the Florida Four
The four sophomores who returned to Florida after winning the 2006 national championship have been given an enormous ...
From JAY BILAS,
ESPN,
10 Apr 2007