Traveling is your quickest way to catch up on the weekend (or week) in the NBA and college basketball. I’ll have a new post up every Monday and Friday; ideal for your morning commute to work or that first bathroom break of the day.
Let’s get into it!
Conference Tournament Inflation
The conference tournaments can be dangerous for your NCAA bracket. Why? Because one good stretch of games can make you think a team is better than they were for the four months before that weekend.
To help you avoid conference tournament inflation, here’s a look at the Top Three regular season standings from the Power 6 conferences.
ACC
- Virginia
- Duke
- Clemson
Big 12
- Kansas
- Texas Tech
- West Virginia
Big East
- Xavier
- Villanova
- Creighton
Big 10
- Michigan State
- Purdue
- Ohio State
Pac 12
- Arizona
- USC
- UCLA
SEC
- Auburn
- Tennessee
- Florida
Checkout this crossover
Aina Ayuso just breaking ankles out there.
Kobe wins Oscar, Kyrie probably won’t but still awesome Uncle Drew news
Kobe Bryant’s sixth championship came in the form of an Oscar. The award was for “Dear Basketball” which you can watch right here. Check out this making of too, really cool how it all came together.
And maybe not an Oscar, but great to see this many NBA players getting together for a full-length feature film. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Uncle Drew.
Houston Rockets 17-game Winning Streak
At some point we need to start believing the Rockets could get to the NBA Finals.
That DeRozan Dunk Tho…
Wait, are we doing a high five or…
13 out of 10 on the awkward scale pic.twitter.com/fTa513c3Kr
— ESPN (@espn) March 8, 2018
The Great Embiid vs. Whiteside rivalry continues
Shaq on Hassan Whiteside over Joel Embiid: “That dunk was nuts!” pic.twitter.com/gRe9vP0Ui6
— Michael Lee (@MrMichaelLee) March 9, 2018
A surprising amount of NBA to this week’s post. I think it’s because the next three weeks will be dominated by college basketball. Come check out Traveling on Monday.
