Percy Allen recently reported on Lindy’s coming out with its annual college hoops preview. Check that post out here.
I picked up one of the other major annual college hoops print magazines from Athlon Sports, which also picks Washington to finish second behind Cal this upcoming season. Both pick UCLA for third as well. After that, Athlon’s thoughts on the standings begin to differ from Lindy’s.
While Lindy’s picks Jerome Randle for Pac-10 Player of the Year, Athlon forecasts Patrick Christopher, also on Cal, to win the award. Athlon also picks Venoy Overton as the conference’s best defender (duh!), and Abdul Gaddy as the “Newcomer of the Year.”
Isaiah is picked to the All Pac-10 First Team, Quincy is picked for the Second Team, and in a pleasant surprise, Athlon chose Matthew Bryan-Amaning for the Third Team.
Nationwide, while Lindy’s picked Washington as the 16th best team in the country, Athlon picks us 17th.
There’s plenty of other good stuff about the Dawgs, the Pac-10, and the rest of the NCAA landscape in the magazine. I really enjoy the college annual preview mags more than the pro sports ones, which are usually outdated by the time the season starts. Since colleges don’t trade players, and recruiting developments don’t impact the current season much, only an injury, or other strange occurrence, can outdate the info before opening day.
Thanks for coming!
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thank you very much for your work. What do you think of Percy Allen? What other companies put on college basketball preview mags?
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Thanks, Paul.
The short story: I think Percy is fantastic. But, my full thoughts on the changeover, and what I expect, will come in a post later this week.
Thanks,
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I’m tired of this nonsense that CAL is going to beat us for the Pac-10 title. Brockman was an absolute stud for UW for all four years and he should have his number retired with Chris Welp but I think people are overestimating the impact of his departure. Before Brockman, UW led the conference in rebounds. Our team averaged around 100 points a game and a boatload of shots back then, but I think this years team is going to be very similar to that which should make up for some of Brockman’s departure. Jerome Randle is not going to blow up like people are expecting by naming him Preseason player of the year. People keep forgetting how quickly Patrick Christopher fell off the map after a fast start last year. Their 7-3 chinese guy is going to die of exhaustion after 3 minutes of Abdul pushing the rock up the floor. When we go head to head with Cal, look who we have to cover Randle. Venoy is a nightmare for all guards. I expect UW to repeat this year with a record no worse than last year.
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