After helping lead the ‘Fire GarPax’ movement for years, I am excited to write about a new era for the franchise. I have covered the franchise through the brief good times, and the more considerable bad times. People also know me from my work writing about the Chicago Bulls. I’ve done original reporting, written features on future stars, churned out mock drafts, and wrote incisive analysis on a daily basis. I’ve covered everything in the basketball world from the NBA All-Star Game to the McDonald’s All-American Game to “AAU” leagues put on by Nike and Under Armour. I was a credentialed reporter at the Final Four four different times, and covered the NBA Draft combine annually. I led all SB Nation writers in traffic in 2020 and was second among authors on the site in 2019.Īt SB Nation, I carved out a niche covering the pipeline from high school to the NBA. In addition to coordinating coverage and editing writers, I also wrote something myself pretty much every day. My most recent position at SB Nation was as Basketball Editor, where I led our NBA and college basketball teams. Please check to make sure you’re getting the emails from Substack and reach out to me if you’re not at My work at SB Nation

The emails and tweets I’ve received from fans of the series have seriously made my day/week/month during a time when I was feeling so much anxiety about my job. The new goal for this series? To try to make Western Illinois the best college basketball program of all time. Spoilers ahead, so stop scrolling here if you don’t want to read them Introducing the series + Year 1 with the Leathernecks (2007-2008) Here’s a refresher on the entire seasons so far: The first email sent out from here chronicling the start of Year 8 had an 80 percent open rate. More than 7,000 people have subscribed for email updates so far at this site. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the series through its first four installments at SB Nation. I’ve been writing my way through the series over the last month, and the reception has been amazing. I don’t actually “play” the games - I simulate all of them while doing the recruiting.

I started the playing the game again with the goal of winning the national championship with one of the worst teams in the game: the Western Illinois Leathernecks. We’re trying to turn Western Illinois into the greatest college basketball program ever in ‘College Hoops 2K8’Ĭollege Hoops 2K8 is the last college basketball video game made by 2K Sports.

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