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Category: College Hoops
To Tuck or Not to Tuck: That Is the Question
Click to enlarge Last week I mentioned the excellent new “30 for 30” documentary, Untucked, which is about Marquette’s untucked jerseys back in the late 1970s. As a companion piece …
Reeeeejected!
Interesting development yesterday afternoon, as the Baylor basketball team announced via Twitter that the NCAA had put the kibosh on the school’s “Sic ’Em Bears” jerseys, which had been released …
The Worst of Both Worlds
If you can’t see this slideshow, click here The big news yesterday was that Adidas released a bunch of March Merch Madness uniforms, all of which are shown in the …
There’s Even a Steak on There!
By Phil Hecken Yesterday afternoon, the Northwestern basketball team revealed a new, alternate, “player-designed” uniform, and what you see above represents the left shoulder of that uniform. They’ll be wearing …
Almost A Shocker
By Phil Hecken I hadn’t intended to write about the Wichita State Shockers today; in fact, I had intended the lede article to simply be a big collection of concepts …
It Wasn’t Really Broken, but They Fixed It Anyway
Georgia surprised everyone yesterday by announcing a big rebranding of its athletics program (or at least I think it was a surprise; I certainly hadn’t heard any rumblings about it). …
The Holiest of Holy Days
By Phil Hecken Greetings, and for all who are celebrating, welcome to the Holiest of Holy Days! That’s right, Major League Baseball begins the 2013 season tonight. Ugh. OK, I …
Uni Watch DIY Project: Building a Better Bracket
Click to enlarge Got a note yesterday from reader Nic Schultz, who’s been working on an interesting project. “For the last couple of years, I’ve been designing custom March Madness …
Not So Bad
Okay, so I’m a little biased because my favorite color is green, but I really liked USF’s green-gradient shorts last night (additional photos in this slideshow). Will they ever wear …
Hoosier Daddy? Not adidas…
By Phil Hecken A most interesting (and seemingly rare) occurrence was reported in yesterday’s IndyStar.com (h/t to Tim Bierbaum): The Indiana Hoosiers, steeped in rich basketball tradition — basically told …
In Which the Stupid Gets Even Stupider
Click to enlarge When I wrote about the Warriors’ new sleeved jerseys a few weeks ago, I mentioned that Adidas would also be bringing sleeves to the college level this …
And One for the Thumb … Of the Foot … Or Something Like That
As far as I can tell, there was only one uni-notable aspect to last night’s BCS title game: ESPN maintained is recent protocol of using the TV numbers on the …
Another Day, Another Sandy Hook Memorial
Click to enlarge Yesterday’s Newtown memorial du jour took place in Providence, whose basketball team wore green uniforms with “Sandy Hook” NOBs. The jerseys are going to be sent to …
Such a Nice Jewish Boy
Courtesy of Northwestern Athletic Communications This is Aaron Liberman, the Northwestern freshman and Orthodox Jew who wears his yarmulke on the bench and plans to wear it on the court …