While on site in Birmingham, AL, and witnessing a clash between two of last years, Final Four, teams, I came away with even more questions regarding each team's overall performance, and projection, going forward into the season, ahead of the Player's Era Tournament, in which both Auburn, and Houston, will be participating in. Without a doubt the Houston Cougars defense proved, once more, how effective they are, not only at minimizing their opponents scoring opportunities, but also asserted...

When it comes down to securing any marginal means of advantage, to successfully construct a Final Four caliber roster, let alone a competitive one, in todays modern collegiate game, any non conventional means of identifying high level talent, especially in overlooked levels of the game, and geographies, can become that slight bit of leverage needed to separate the elite teams, from championship ones. Cardinals Coach, Pat Kelsey, has utilized his understanding of this, to build sustainable,...

With the dynamic changes in how collegiate rosters, are constructed, and with seasonal turnover, creating vacuums' of talent being drained in and spat out to other programs, leaving locker rooms in disarray, and undermanned, the value of being able to have a stable, recurring, and trusted, cast, is a fleeting commodity in our day and age of collegiate basketball. However, for a Power Four Team, the task of maintaining a secure roster that can handle the intensity of their respective...