college basketball

The Best BLOB is no BLOB: An Alarming Discovery
After years of watching videos, reading articles, talking to coaching peers, analyzing game film, something strange happened. In my 24th year as a high school head boys’ basketball coach, I stumbled onto something that changed my whole view of o...

Integrating Ball Screen & Rim-Runs into Man Offenses
Ball screen-and-rolls have become increasingly more popular in the last several years. Defensive-minded coaches have tried to counter this fundamentally sound offensive way of attack with various methods, such as switching the ball screen, hedging, h...

BU Basketball Sweeps Holy Cross as Both Teams Wore Masks
Gerrale Gates scored 19 points, Austin Butler added 18 and Holy Cross edged past Boston University 68-66 on Tuesday in a game both teams wore masks. Masks were required — not just on the sidelines, but during the game — for both sides at Case Gy...

NCAA to Host Single-Site March Madness Tournament in Indiana
The NCAA will stage the entire 2021 men’s basketball championship in Indiana, with the majority of the tournament’s 67 games taking place in Indianapolis. Selection Sunday is still scheduled for March 14, and plans remain to have the Final Four o...

Coaching Aids in Basketball
Coaching for the last 50 years I have seen many different coaching aids — weighted balls, oversized balls, machines that measure arc, smaller rims, rebound rims, dribbling gloves, dribbling glasses, hand placement balls, shooting straps, to name a ...

Integrating Ball Screen-&-Rolls into Man Offenses
Ball screen-and-rolls have been a staple of offensive basketball for many years. When motion offenses became the craze in the 1970s, this fundamentally sound form of attack faded away for years. But it has come back and has become very popular agai...

Duncan Robinson’s Rise from NCAA DIII to NBA Finals
If you tuned into the Miami Heat and their run to the NBA Finals there’s one thing you know for sure: Duncan Robinson played Division III men’s basketball and did so at Williams College. The now well-known factoid heard on ESPN, printed in n...

10 Ways To Track Success For Players
Players today, for the most part, are stronger and quicker and have many other abilities that are off the charts. However, has their power of attitude increased for the better? has their toughness increased? In many years coaching basketball, I have ...