NCAA News
Most NBL players attend college in America, but where do they go? In the past decade, NBL players have come from 173 colleges from all parts of the country and every conference imaginable.
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The first thing that I notice when I sit down with Isaac Humphries is his 7 foot frame towering over me. He barely fits into the chair at the café table where we sit for our interview. Unfortunately there aren’t any other chairs available, but he doesn’t look perturbed – I get the impression that…
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18-year-old Adam Lulka, who plays for Penrith Panthers and in his final year of high school at The King’s School, Parramatta has been snapped up by the University at Albany. Securing a four-year scholarship, he says he will most likely undertake a psychology degree while playing for the university’s basketball team the Albany Great…
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This week it was announced that Division I college conference, the Pac-12, had signed a multi-year deal with Fox Sports Australia. The deal will see 13 football games (one per week) and 21 men’s basketball games televised annually, including eight from the conference championship tournament. This move is another piece of the Pac-12’s move…
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With the Boomers finishing off their 2016 Rio Olympic Games campaign with heart-wrenching, infuriating fourth place, it’s time to look forward to the next Boomers squad for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Many of the key players who led Australia in capturing the country’s hearts in Brazil will be primed for another go around but it’s…
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The Australian Boomers are heading on the road on their quest for Olympic glory but they’re not leaving us high and dry. Fear not, they will be playing two farewell games on the 12th and 14th of July in Melbourne against a Pac-12 Conference All Star team from the USA. Wesley Gordon from the University…
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Gorjok Gak will follow in the footsteps of stars like Scottie Wilbekin and Casey Prather after accepting a scholarship to play with the Florida Gators yesterday. Gorjok Gak made his decision public by announcing his decision via his Twitter account. Thankyou Jesus! pic.twitter.com/veD7JQPxNH — Gorjok Gak (@Gorjok12) April 25, 2016 The talented 6’11…
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Australia is not a stranger to claiming talented stars who aren’t exactly their own. Russell Crowe is a well know case who despite being born in New Zealand and twice being rejected as an Australian citizen we still like to claim him as our own. In basketball it’s no different as shown when Kyrie Irving…
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The University of New Mexico basketball team have signed former NBL guard Chris Harriman as a head assistant coach. Chris Harriman played 23 games in the NBL, one season with the Sydney Kings (1998/99) and another with the Hunter Valley Pirates in their inaugural NBL season (2003/04). He joins the Lobos after spending the previous…
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Dan Trist, a senior center on the Lafayette College men’s basketball team, has accepted an invite to compete in the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament to be played from April 8-11 in Portsmouth, Virginia. Trist is originally from Sydney and went to school at North Sydney Boys High School before being recruited by Leopards coach Fran Hanlon….
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