So we realize that not everyone has a mental illness like we do and thinks about college basketball year-round. Some of you do — the ones who keep emailing us about Jerome Dyson, for example — but not all of you. Therefore, if you’re just today realizing that there are actual games that count beginning tonight in Chapel Hill, Columbus, Syracuse and Berkeley as part of the 2009 Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament, well, here’s your cheat sheet.
RTC Preseason Top 25 – will debut at 6:30 pm ET tonight. If you like comparisons, here’s the Coaches and Media Top 25. We also found time to give you our preseason bracketology.
RTC Preseason All-Americans – from Aldrich to Warren, they’re all here.
RTC Top 65 Games & Tournaments – we picked them by month (Nov/Dec, January, Feb/March pt. 1, Feb/March pt.2) so you don’t have to. If that’s too complicated, here’s the wrapup post listing them by both date and ranking. Oh, and we also broke down each of the big holiday tournaments, from the CvC to the Preseason NIT and everything in between. We even found time to give you a complete schedule of the ESPN Full Court package with some analysis thrown in.
30 Reasons We Love College Basketball – get yourself excited with some of the top plays and moments from the 2008-09 season here.
Cooler Than You – just for fun, we provided a list of the coolest names, best dunkers, nastiest long-range bombers and human erasers here.
Tweeting the Preview (click here for all) – a new feature this year, we analyzed each of the 347 teams in D1 in 140 characters or less.
- #347-#331
- #330-#307
- #306-#283
- #282-#259
- #258-#235
- #234-#211
- #210-#187
- #186-#163
- #162-#139
- #138-#115
- #114-#91
- #90-#67
- #66-#43
- #42-#19
- #18-#1 (coming throughout today)
Conference Primers (click here for all) – as usual, through our network of correspondents, we broke down each and every conference.
- Big 10
- ACC
- Big East
- Big 12
- SEC
- Pac-10
- Mountain West
- Conference USA
- Atlantic 10
- Missouri Valley
- Horizon League
- WAC
- Colonial
- West Coast
- MAAC
- Big West
- Summit League
- Southland
- MAC
- Sun Belt
- America East
- Big Sky
- Big South
- Ohio Valley
- Atlantic Sun
- Southern
- SWAC
- Ivy League
- Patriot League
- Northeast
- MEAC
RTC Impact Players (click here for all) – from Maine to Hawaii and back, we identified and describe the sixty impact players you need to keep an eye on this season.
- Northeast Region
- Mid-Atlantic Region
- South Atlantic Region
- Deep South Region
- Mid-South Region
- Lower Midwest Region
- Upper Midwest Region
- Mountain Region
- Southwest Region
- Northwest Region
- Wrap-Up
What say we tip it off already? The offseason is too damn long.