WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- Any words written about the 2017-18 college hoops season between now and November 10th when the ref tosses the ball up for real are pure prognostication. Throwing a wrench into the works is the ongoing saga of the shoe company recruiting scandal, as it remains to be seen what punishment the NCAA will mete out to the offending programs and when. Question marks abound, nowhere more so than on Edwin Moses Boulevard. Here are a few of the experts and their SWAG:
10 possible Cinderella teams you may be talking about during March Madness
https://www.cbssports.com/college-ba...march-madness/
UD foes Ball State and St. Bonaventure are listed.
Atlantic 10 Preview
https://www.si.com/college-basketbal...ings-standings
The Top 50 Freshman scorers of the 2017-18 season
https://www.si.com/college-basketbal...-marvin-bagley
Kostas is listed at #44.
The toughest job among college basketball's new coaches
https://www.cbssports.com/college-ba...s-new-coaches/
Archie is thought to have the easiest job of the newcomers; Georgetown’s Patrick Ewing the hardest; AG is in the middle at #9.
Elsewhere in Hoop Nation:
-- If you enjoy tracking the exploits of former Flyers in their professional hoops careers, you gotta follow this Twitter site called Professionally LOWD:
https://twitter.com/ProLOWD
-- Monday October 23rd is D-Day for Anthony Nelson, AG’s prime PG recruiting target out of NYC:
https://twitter.com/NYPost_Brazille/....5006%2Fpage-3
-- Looking further down the recruiting funnel, here is a video of 2020 prospect Zeb Jackson out of Toledo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=jnkFvt3kAjA
-- Interviews with Flyers present and past:
Josh Cunningham
http://hoopshd.com/2017/10/15/season...sh-cunningham/
Charles Cooke
http://www.wingam.com/uds-charles-co...justin-kinner/
Anthony Grant
http://www.daytoncitypaper.com/on-the-beat-1017-2/
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Sports Illustrated explains the art and science of predicting a college basketball season:
https://www.si.com/college-basketbal...ictions-system
-- The Younger Dr. Swampette’s college roommate at Michigan made the
NBC Nightly News recently:
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...-1075508803843
Dr. Kate is
exactly like that in real life -- a bundle of kinetic energy!
-- Here is something you don’t see every day: a 30’ tall tree stump that has been floating around upright on the surface of a lake for 130 years!
http://activenorcal.net/blog/the-mys...lakes-old-man/
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at:
swampy@udpride.com