Quick UNCG Thoughts

As season openers go, it’s hard not be pleased with last night. There were moments of sloppiness, but the game wasn’t painful to watch, which is a testament both to our overall talent level and specifically to having experienced guards running the show.

Game Preview: Iowa

It’s hard to get much of a read on Iowa from their schedule so far, which is a funny thing to say because that’s something that they’re saying about us, too (which is fair because even Yale, touted by some as a test for us, was missing their two best players). The Hawkeyes have handily beaten…

Game Preview: Yale

Blowouts of hapless opponents make me anxious. The early portion of our schedule was expertly crafted to indoctrinate new players to real life, full speed (wink emoji) Virginia basketball, but I felt as though the team was spinning their wheels a little by the end of the demolition of St…

Hoops Preview: WVU

You don’t have to be a diehard college basketball fan to comprehend the key to Virginia leaving Saturday undefeated. It‘s obvious to even the casual observer that, to beat the Mountaineers, we’re going to need to control the tempo of the game, limit our turnovers, and be mature on offense. When…

Hoops Preview: Louisville

I said that I was bored of blowing out bad teams after the Robert Morris game, but the college basketball calendar moves quickly and doesn’t let one stay bored for long. The Cal game was a fun test, and now things get real with conference play kicking off with a road game against…

Hoops Preview: FSU

Games against Leonard Hamilton’s FSU teams always make me wish I could take the floor myself so I could talk junk and throw some ‘bows. Hamilton is a tremendous guy, but he preaches an aggressive-to-the-point-of-brash style on both ends, and 40 minutes of that physicality paired with our…

Player Preview: Devon Hall

I’ve been a Devon Hall fan from day one. In the summer before his freshman year, I picked him to inherit the starting point guard role from Jontel Evans, starry-eyed over projections like this one from ESPN:

He’s cut from the Kendall Marshall mold. A…

Player Preview: Jay Huff

Jay Huff contains multitudes.

He is possibly the best three point shooter on our team and possibly over seven feet tall.

He’s in the neighborhood of seven feet tall, but if he really weighs in at his listed 215 pounds, it’s after…