NBA Draft 2025: Ace Bailey’s Mindset Will Help Him Become an NBA Star

We often hear scouts harping on the value of ‘intangibles’ in draft scouting. It can be challenging to measure what that actually means and its value. But NBA players must harbor a certain mentality and attitude to play in the pros. I often conceptualize it through the lens of a player’s ‘wiring.’  Is a prospect […]

Ben Pfeifer  •  23 Dec 2024
NBA Draft 2025: Introducing a Better Way to Order Prospects

The traditional “big board” has been a staple of draft coverage across sports. NBA fans love rankings and debating between prospects, but this often isn’t a prudent manner to analyze the draft. Ordinal rankings are often exciting and flashy but present quite a few problems when it comes to accurate analysis. Every draft features steep […]

Ben Pfeifer  •  20 Dec 2024
NBA Draft 2025: Analyzing an Elite Crop of Future Star Guard Prospects

Even as the NBA continues to supersize and run through taller players, elite guards will always carry value. The proliferation of taller initiators has opened pathways for guards who aren’t on-ball specialists to thrive in the pros. The 2025 Draft class features one of the deeper crops of guard prospects in quite some time. The […]

Ben Pfeifer  •  20 Dec 2024
NBA Draft 2025: Why Cooper Flagg is still the Clear Number One Pick

Entering the 2025 draft cycle, most scouts and draft outlets considered Cooper Flagg the clear top prospect. Many scouts (myself included) consider Flagg a special prospect, capable of developing into an NBA superstar. Some other prospects, notably Dylan Harper, have crept towards the conversation. But I’d argue that Flagg’s start to the season only adds […]

Ben Pfeifer  •  18 Dec 2024
Marquette Golden Eagles Prospect Chase Ross Compared to LeBron James

Chase Ross has been in scintillating form for Marquette this season, and the junior has been likened to one of the NBA’s cornerstones in the aftermath of another standout display. Golden Eagles Guard Chase Ross Likened to LeBron James Chase Ross is undoubtedly being eyed as an early 2026 NBA Draft prospect, and his surprise […]

Charlie Rhodes  •  10 Dec 2024
College Basketball Best Bets: Tuesday, November 19 – Purdue, Marquette Highlight Big Tuesday

College basketball is back in full swing, and we’re back with our college basketball best bets.  It’s officially college basketball season, as week three kicks off. We’ve gotten our first looks at the top teams in the country, and teams from across the nation have finally seen some game action in the 2024-2025 season. We’re […]

Colin Lynch  •  19 Nov 2024
College Basketball Best Bets: Wednesday, November 13

College basketball is back in full swing, and we’re back with our college basketball best bets.  It’s officially college basketball season, as week two kicks off. We’ve gotten our first looks at the top teams in the country, and teams from across the nation have finally seen some game action in the 2024-2025 season. We’re […]

Colin Lynch  •  13 Nov 2024
College Basketball Best Bets: Top Ranked Alabama, Purdue Are in Action

College basketball is back in full swing, and we’re back with our college basketball best bets.  It’s officially college basketball season, as week two kicks off. We’ve gotten our first looks at the top teams in the country, and teams from across the nation have finally seen some game action in the 2024-2025 season. We’re […]

Colin Lynch  •  11 Nov 2024
Grand Canyon Declines West Coast Conference Invite to Join Mountain West Conference

Grand Canyon University (GCU) will join the Mountain West Conference (MW) by at least 2026, the school and conference announced Friday. The decision comes six months after GCU said it would join the West Coast Conference (WCC) in 2025. Grand Canyon will compete in 17 conference-sponsored sports in the Mountain West Conference “We want to […]

James Foglio  •  02 Nov 2024