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Nov 8, 2024 | hoopshq.com | Seth Davis |Brett Friedlander |Alex Squadron |Chris Spatola

The Alligator spoke with two women, both former UF students, who attested to Golden’s behavior. One woman said that Golden stalked her “more than 10 times” in person, both in his car and on foot. She also said that Golden sent unsolicited photos of his genitalia to her and that his stalking became more aggressive over time. “At first, it starts off slow, like, ‘Oh, wow. That’s odd. This guy is showing us attention,’” she told The Alligator. “And then it becomes, ‘Wow, he’s kind of crossing a line.

Nov 8, 2024 | hoopshq.com | Brett Friedlander |Alex Squadron |Chris Spatola |Alex Wolff

Given all of this, and given that no Big Ten team returns a higher percentage of minutes (62.3 percent), it would be logical to assume the Wildcats are entering the 2023-24 campaign with lofty expectations. Imagine coach Chris Collins’ surprise, then, when they were picked to finish 16th at the Big Ten’s media day last month. “I was a little insulted, but as a coach I was also humored and kind of happy about it,” Collins tells Hoops HQ.

Nov 8, 2024 | hoopshq.com | Alex Squadron |Seth Davis |Chris Spatola |Brett Friedlander

Dean Smith played for a national championship team coached by Phog Allen at Kansas before winning two titles at UNC and retiring with the most wins in NCAA Division I history. Former Tar Heels star Larry Brown raised a banner with the Jayhawks by winning the 1988 national championship with Danny Manning and the Miracles before being replaced by Roy Williams, Dean Smith’s understudy who eventually returned to Chapel Hill to restore UNC to glory after a successful run in Lawrence.

Nov 8, 2024 | hoopshq.com | Chris Spatola |Alex Wolff |Faux Pelini |Seth Davis

On Monday night, when Houston beat Jackson State 97-40 to open the 2024-25 campaign, Roberts became the winningest player in Fertitta Center history, passing former point guard Jamal Shead. He now holds a staggering home record of 63-3 with a full season ahead of him. “When my career is said and done and I look back and think about all the kids that I’ve coached, J’Wan will always be one of my favorites,” Kelvin Sampson tells Hoops HQ.

Nov 7, 2024 | hoopshq.com | Chris Spatola |Faux Pelini |Seth Davis |Tristan Freeman

Bradburd’s most recent effort is his first novel, Big Time (Etruscan Press), about fictional Coors State University. The beer company has bought up naming rights to the school, and the fortunes of a menagerie of characters (athletes and coaches, but professors and administrators too) hang on the fate of the Silver Bullets. A couple of fed-up faculty lead a campus protest movement called “a March Away from Madness,” and the school president gets waterboarded with tallboys of Coors.