The tale of two college basketball teams in this city remains to be told, but it will not have a Dickens ending for one for sure as the earthquake the rocks the game that some call conference realignment continues. Catholic Seven lives on as Big East II. I had to harken back to my days...
Gear Up : March Madness Around the ...
posted by Jim Bianchine
It was a simple thing really, just a flip of the calendar from February to March. It is something we all do each year. Yet suddenly there was something magical in the air with the turn of a single page. Maybe not everyone feels it, but many certainly do. The obvious, at least in these parts,...
Mad as Hell! Demise of Big East a T...
posted by Jim Bianchine
That’s all I can standz cuz I can’t standz no more! Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would borrow a famous line from Popeye to begin a column! But it is true, both the iconic line and the sentiment and this has been a longtime coming. For me it is beyond sadness. It...
Xavier Sees the Future–and it...
posted by Jim Bianchine
I went. I went again. I observed and like I did for three decades at the Boston Garden covering the Celtics, I analyzed. It is what I do. And I came away, this time from the Cintas Center impressed. I saw a freshman guard I had heard a little about named Semaj Christon, and took a very long...
Questions Abound in Xavier’s ...
posted by Jim Bianchine
If you are a college basketball fan or in particular a Xavier fan, you may want to grab a beverage and some peanuts. You are going to be reading for a while. Yours truly had every intention of a long winter’s nap after diving into baseball head first as I did over the past season. The...