college basketball Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/college-basketball Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Sun, 03 May 2026 12:04:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg college basketball Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/college-basketball 32 32 Ernie D Built the Big East, One Local College Basketball Broadcast at a Time https://www.halphillips.net/ernie-d-was-an-adorable-pro-but-does-the-big-east-even-happen-without-him?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ernie-d-was-an-adorable-pro-but-does-the-big-east-even-happen-without-him https://www.halphillips.net/ernie-d-was-an-adorable-pro-but-does-the-big-east-even-happen-without-him#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:46:39 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=5315 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Jan. 5, 2024) — It’s never too late to mark and quantify the impact of Ernie DiGregorio. Not in New England. Not when the subject is college basketball. Yet here’s the immediate news peg, the reason to contemplate Ernie D and his attendant rabbit hole early in 2024: It was 50 years ago […]

The post Ernie D Built the Big East, One Local College Basketball Broadcast at a Time appeared first on Hal Phillips.

]]> https://www.halphillips.net/ernie-d-was-an-adorable-pro-but-does-the-big-east-even-happen-without-him/feed 1 Universal NCAA Bids: Let’s Qualify every D1 Team for March Madness https://www.halphillips.net/lets-take-the-ncaa-tournament-up-a-few-notches-to-351-fahrenheit?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lets-take-the-ncaa-tournament-up-a-few-notches-to-351-fahrenheit https://www.halphillips.net/lets-take-the-ncaa-tournament-up-a-few-notches-to-351-fahrenheit#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:37:46 +0000 http://theaposition.com/halphillips/?p=1912 DaVinci hoopsAnother bout of March Madness has come and gone. And now the money-grubbing power conferences are looking to further sully its pristine symmetry. From the moment the play-in gambit was instituted, in 2001, the slope got very slippery indeed. At first, just two small-conference champions squared off for the right to get boned, on 36-48 […]

The post Universal NCAA Bids: Let’s Qualify every D1 Team for March Madness appeared first on Hal Phillips.

]]> https://www.halphillips.net/lets-take-the-ncaa-tournament-up-a-few-notches-to-351-fahrenheit/feed 0