The 2025 G-League Winter Showcase was a whirlwind of players, coaches, and executives gathering in Orlando, Florida to demonstrate the often unnoticed grind that runs concurrent to the flashy lights of the NBA season on a bigger stage. For the eight teams that played in the Playoffs of the Showcase, each game was a chance to earn respect, consideration for mid-season contracts, and a piece of the $100,000 cash prize set aside for the winning team. The Salt Lake City Stars wou

Walking into the 2025 NBA G League Showcase, it’s easy to get caught up in the games themselves, the pace, the matchups, the urgency of players fighting for 10-day contracts or call-ups. But after spending time on the ground this year, one thing became abundantly clear: the G League Showcase is less about what happens between the lines and more about what happens in the hallways, hotel lobbies, and courtside conversations. Yes, basketball is the entry point. But the Showcase

As the greater Philadelphia metro is known for being the stomping grounds of many great basketball legends, as well as the home of a unique concentration of storied Division 1 programs, makes any opportunity, to see an collection of talent from across the Big East, American, A-10, and Ivy League, conference's, all in one building, that much more worthwhile. It was an absolute pleasure for our very own Jared Williams , not only to attend, but to further note any impactful ath

While on site in Birmingham, AL, and witnessing a clash between two of last years, Final Four, teams, I came away with even more questions regarding each team's overall performance, and projection, going forward into the season, ahead of the Player's Era Tournament, in which both Auburn, and Houston, will be participating in. Without a doubt the Houston Cougars defense proved, once more, how effective they are, not only at minimizing their opponents scoring opportunities, but

When it comes down to securing any marginal means of advantage, to successfully construct a Final Four caliber roster, let alone a competitive one, in todays modern collegiate game, any non conventional means of identifying high level talent, especially in overlooked levels of the game, and geographies, can become that slight bit of leverage needed to separate the elite teams, from championship ones. Cardinals Coach, Pat Kelsey, has utilized his understanding of this, to buil

With the dynamic changes in how collegiate rosters, are constructed, and with seasonal turnover, creating vacuums' of talent being drained in and spat out to other programs, leaving locker rooms in disarray, and undermanned, the value of being able to have a stable, recurring, and trusted, cast, is a fleeting commodity in our day and age of collegiate basketball. However, for a Power Four Team, the task of maintaining a secure roster that can handle the intensity of their res

While several marquee basketball dominant athletic programs, across the NCAA landscape, have made significant fortification towards resourcing their programs, almost to the point of creating "NBA style" environments, to sustain any incremental advantage to bring about a national championship intention year-over-year, there seems to be a program that is completely bought into their vision, of being able to cut the net in Indianapolis, at the conclusion of the 2025/2026 season.