Dime Q&A: NBA Players Make Their Picks, Name Their Sleepers
The bracket is out, let the hysteria begin. It seems like everyone around the country is amped about the Big Dance this year. Who wouldn’t be? With the tournament as wide open as it is, it really could...
View ArticleDime Q&A: Gordon Hayward Talks Utah Jazz & March Madness
The butler did it…again. Yesterday’s miraculous buzzer-beater lay-in by Matt Howard to beat Old Dominion had me reminiscing over Butler’s miraculous run last year to the national championship game as a...
View ArticleFoul Play In Pitt-Butler Game; 8 Players Go Off For 30-Plus
For anyone that was free to sit in front of the television all day, they were in for a treat. Between eight NCAA Tournament games and six NBA contests, there were enough highlights to make sure...
View ArticleAnd So It Begins: Dime’s NBA Draft Diary With Isaiah Thomas
After leading Washington to back-to-back conference titles in the Pac-10 Tournament over the last two seasons, junior Isaiah Thomas (who also claimed back-to-back conference MOP honors in those same...
View ArticleNBA Draft: The Best Player To Go Undrafted Will Be Kansas State’s Jacob Pullen
There’s a reason that basketball has been thriving again in Manhattan, Kansas. And it’s less about Bob Huggins, Michael Beasley and Bill Walker’s respectively quick residencies; it has to do with Coach...
View ArticleDime Q&A: Jordan Williams Talks NBA Draft & Greivis Vasquez
Most of the time college and NBA analysts disagree, but there is one thing that most can garner a consensus about: the fact that rebounding is usually the skill that translates best from college to the...
View ArticleTop 10 Undrafted Players From The 2011 NBA Draft
Besides the big names, there were two players I was actively cheering for last night: Isaiah Thomas and Xavier Silas. And the reason being is that most people assumed they were going to go undrafted....
View ArticleThe Ballers Run The ESPYS
So The ESPY’s may not be an all-hoops award show, but outside of the U.S. Ladies and their overseas patriot smorgasbord, the ballers stole the show. It started off solid with SNL’s Seth Meyers making...
View ArticleJacob Pullen Shows Out At Chicago’s Time 2 Shine League
While everyone talks about the summer leagues on either coast, don’t sleep on the Midwest when it comes to offseason hoops. Case in point: Jacob Pullen showin’ out at the Time 2 Shine Basketball League...
View ArticlePreseason All-American Jordan Taylor Could Lift Wisconsin To New Heights
*College basketball is here (unlike the NBA), and this year might be one of the best in recent memory. The powerhouse is back, while the Cinderellas believe. That’s a deadly combination. We know some...
View ArticleCollege Basketball’s Biggest Sneakerhead
With the college basketball season underway, we thought now was as good a time as any to share this video from The Wichita Eagle. Who knew Jacob Pullen had just as much game off the court. What do you...
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Dime #61: Chris Paul Tells His Side of the Story
I feel like I’ve grown up at Dime alongside Chris Paul. In the summer of 2005, I landed in New York City for the first time, a brand-new college grad in town for an interview about a full-time job....
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Dime Q&A: Duke’s Kyrie Irving Could Be One Of The Best Ever
Kyrie Irving (photo. Duke) It is hard to imagine a freshman having a better start to his career than Kyrie Irving. The Duke point guard has already held preseason All-America Jacob Pullen to 1-of-12...
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Mighty Monta fights off the Abominable Blake Griffin
Monta Ellis (photo. Bethany Gilbert) Not to take a dump on ESPN’s Friday doubleheader featuring Spurs vs. Mavs and Blazers vs. Suns, but was there really any doubt that last night’s true must-see...
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Ranking college basketball’s Top 10 Point Guards
UConn's Kemba Walker Don’t think that the Year of the Point Guard only applies to the NBA. In college basketball, a bumper crop of ones is helping write the national narrative in a way similar to their...
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Matty D’s Top 25 College Basketball Preview (20-16)
That’s right, the start of the college hoops season is just one week away and you know what that means: it’s time to unleash the mother effing fury! For the past seven months, I’ve been bottling up a...
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Ali, Boom-maye! The Biggest Upset of 2010; D-Wade and Q-Rich go Chicago style...
Northern Iowa's Ali Farokhmanesh If nothing else, Northern Iowa needs to keep this run going so we can see how many more times Greg Gumbel butchers the name Ali Farokhmaneh. One of the 14 variations he...
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The Next “Next Larry Bird” leads major March Madness upset; plus the college...
Butler's Gordon Hayward All week long, it seemed the media was trying its hardest to will Cornell to an upset win over Kentucky. But by the end of the first night of Sweet Sixteen action, Butler was...
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West Virginia, Butler punch their Final Four ticket; Kobe leads the Lakers’...
West Virginia's Da'Sean Butler For two teams that were ranked in a lot of people’s national Top 10 in the preseason, it still seems like an underdog story for West Virginia and Butler to have made it...
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NBA Draft: You Need To Know About Denis Clemente
Rewind to three years ago, when it looked like it might be all over for Denis Clemente. After two suspensions for violations of team rules, including one beginning midseason that lasted until year’s...
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