Introducing Basketball Things: A College Basketball Newsletter
Hey there, it’s your internet pal Pregame Empire!I am doing a thing that I have wanted to do for a little while now, but for various reasons I have been scared to try (mostly anxiety about putting myself out there). I am going to write about college basketball. So what will this be exactly? I am calling it Basketball Things and it will feature college basketball things I find interesting, exciting, funny, etc. I will not promise how many things will fit this bill in a given newsletter, but I will promise that the internet person (that sounds so funny lol) you have known me to be will show itself in this venture. Honestly, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel I have a unique voice to bring to the college basketball landscape that needs a bigger platform than just endless posts, and I hope that voice rings true in this space. Really, this is just an outlet for me to express my thoughts because your timeless and my group texts have been more than blown up by them. TLDR: there is a lot of great college basketball content out there that I very much enjoy, but there is a gap in the types of college football content I enjoy and the types of college basketball content that exist. I am taking matters into my own hands and following the words of a great philosopher. |
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The first true midweek conference play slate threw us right into the fire. Yes, we were coming off the first full Saturday of conference play, but when the games are condensed into a 4.5 hour window on a Tuesday or Wednesday night the whiplash hits harder. I looked at the 4 games I had on around 9pm-ish on Wednesday night and 3/4 were single possession games with less than 1:30 remaining in the game. The results? Stanford hits a 3 with 2 seconds left for the win, Miami got the stop they...
It was a weekend full of free throw happenings. Auburn executed one of the best intentional missed free throws you’ll ever see. Instead of flinging the ball as hard as he could in the direction of the rim, Keyshawn Hall shot a normal shot to the left side of the rim, opening up Kevin Overton to hit a fadeaway 15 footer at the buzzer. Beautiful. So many dudes don’t understand the rules in these situations and fail to hit the rim. Auburn didn’t win the game, but good on them for clearly...