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The Dagger is a Yahoo! sports blog about college hoops edited by Eamonn Brennan.
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Behold the best names in college basketball

Oct 29, 2009
Storming the Floor's Eric Angevine does the Lord's work, scouring obscure roster after obscure roster in the hopes of finding the occasional name that breaks the mold, flies in the face of convention, dares to be different, and tells all the ...

Kentucky guard John Wall is cleared ... to be awesome

Oct 29, 2009
Faked you out! Oooh. Totally got you. You thought I was going to say John Wall was cleared to play for Kentucky. Alas, he is not. But according to the AP's report on Kentucky's Blue-White scrimmage last night, Wall is still really, really goo...

The Age Limit is Defining, but for Different Reasons Than This

Oct 13, 2009
Yesterday, one of college basketball's best writers, Mike DeCourcy, listed his top 10 most defining moments of the past decade. Here's his choice for at No. 6: July 30, 2005: The draft comes of age. As part of its collective bargaining agreem...

'I'm Back' Too: Jordan's Son Considers Return to Illini

Oct 8, 2009
Like father, like son. Off the court, anyway. Jeffrey Jordan might not be quite the basketball player his old man was, but he has a similar flair for the dramatic. The former Illinois walk-on is considering a return to the Illini after quitting the...

NCAA Finalizes, Clarifies Brilliant New Rule's Language

Jun 9, 2009
Last week, the world learned of the NCAA's plans in classic Bond-villain strategy: preemptively. But unlike James Bond and his suits and cars and women and gadgets -- Sir Ian Fleming knew how to draw a man-crush of a character, didn't he?

The 10 best NCAA basketball games of the decade

Nov 24, 2009
As the decade winds down, The Dagger will celebrate the past 10 years of college basketball with various top 10 lists. Today, we at look at the 10 best games of the 2000s: 10. Villanova 78, Pittsburgh 76 -- Regional Final, 2009 NCAA tournament The...

The Cancun Challenge gym is not, in fact, a gym

Nov 24, 2009
Nope. It's a ballroom. And it's where Kentucky, Stanford, Virginia, and the rest of the Cancun Challenge participants are, yes, dancing. (Sorry.) From Kentucky Sports Radio comes these floor-level photos of the Cancun Challenge's floor, which has...

The Pac-10 is not doing so hot right now

Nov 24, 2009
No one expected much from the Pac-10 this year. It's a down year. UCLA isn't dominant. USC is bombed out and depleted. California and Washington are the conference's two leading lights, and while they should be plenty good on their own, when the...

The Hunt: No. 16, Minnesota

Nov 24, 2009
The Hunt for the Most Interesting Team in the World is the Dagger's 2009-10 countdown preview series. Check out the overriding principles here. Last year's record: 22-11, 9-9 Big Ten 2009-10's toughest games: at Butler, at Purdue, at Michigan State,...

Josh Pastner never does anything wrong

Nov 24, 2009
Josh Pastner doesn't drink. Josh Pastner doesn't smoke. Josh Pastner never "tried caffeine." Josh Pastner is a freak. Those are the only conclusions to be drawn from this Associated Press report, which details Pastner's rise in coaching and his...


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