Author Archives: Jon Teitel

Handing out the Hardware: All-conference awards of the year (Part 1 of 2)

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Jon Teitel

For Today’s News, Notes, and Highlighted Games – CLICK HERE The end of the regular season means that it is time to recognize the best players/coaches in college basketball this season. HoopsHD’s Jon Teitel has reviewed all of the numbers … Continue reading →

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Bracketology 2021: March Madness Predictions (Version 9.0)

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Jon Teitel

We are only 2 weeks away from Selection Sunday as we continue to make our NCAA tourney predictions. HoopsHD’s Jon Teitel correctly picked 67 of the 68 teams that made the 2019 tourney, 63 of which were within 1 spot … Continue reading →

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Beating the best: HoopsHD interviews Jay Jacobs about Gale Catlett

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Jon Teitel

It is easy to become the #1-ranked team in the nation: it is much harder to stay there, although Mark Few might beg to differ this year. Back in 1983, Coach Jerry Tarkanian brought his top-ranked UNLV team to West … Continue reading →

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Kobe goes to college: HoopsHD interviews McDonald’s All-American Kobe Bufkin

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Jon Teitel

If you want to win an NCAA title you need a good coach, a great resume…and a McDonald’s All-American. Only 1 championship team since 1979 has not featured such a player (Maryland in 2002). The McDonald’s All-American Game did not … Continue reading →

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Sowing the seeds we love: HoopsHD interviews Selection Committee chairman and Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Jon Teitel

We are just over 2 weeks from Selection Sunday, which means that the 10-member NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee is working hard to place 68 of the best teams in the nation into a tidy little bracket. The Committee … Continue reading →

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Memories of Moscow: HoopsHD interviews 1982 national COY Don Monson

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Jon Teitel

This has not been the best year in Idaho basketball history: the Vandals are 0-19 with 4 chances left to avoid having a winless regular season. 4 decades ago it was quite a different story: Coach Dan Monson showed up … Continue reading →

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