2023 CUSA Basketball Championships, or "Hoops at the Star"
Folks, This newsletter has been a failed experiment. In that way I suppose it is very much like the league it covered: understaffed, underfunded, under-...
A Fun Night in CUSA
Last newsletter we mentioned Western struggling. Since, they have won two, including a very impressive win in Birmingham, Alabama. So it goes. CBB is always...
Western Kentucky is 'In A Storm'
Bowling Green – The traveling Mean Green fans, about ten in total, were nervous. Surely, the Tops couldn’t lose three league games in a row? As North Texas...
FAU: For Real
A little preview of the kind of thing we are publishing, folks. Open up your wallet and subscribe. Florida Atlantic have won eleven straight. Naysayers – and...
Don't Ask Stupid Questions
Mike Gundy is going viral again. He said “I might have to cut you out” in response to a rambling, uncertain question about if he planned to make any staff...
How Good Is FAU?
Out on the twitter, I had casually mentioned the big NT-FAU game coming up on the 29th, and someone responded “FAU? They beat Florida. They aren’t any good”....
Pre-Conference Play Snapshot
Like most of you hoop-heads, I saw a little of Louisville vs WKU and can say that while there are a lot of reasons to not freak out, consider that it is very...
Grab Bag of Thoughts
It has been busy at CR HQ. In preparation of the conference start, we've been watching a lot of basketball. Some things that stand out thus far? Well, Middle...
UNT's Seth Littrell Fired
Seth Littrell was fired after a 44-44 record in Denton, 0-2 in league title games, and 0-5 in bowl games. His teams qualified for six, but will not be...
UTSA Champions
San Antonio, TX – Jeff Traylor called this season his favorite “for a number of reasons” and listed injuries, adversity and reference some mystery things...
Championship Dispatch, Links
SAN ANTONIO, TX – The air was foggy upon arrival into the city. There is a slight buzz for the game, simply judging by the number of interactions had while...
New Coaches In The League
Apologies for the late thoughts, as CR was traveling to San Antonio for the C-USA Championship Football game. UAB hired Trent Dilfer. FAU hired Tom Herman....
Playoff Expansion
The Rose Bowl was blocking the negotiations but has backed off their hardline stance for guarantees, reports Sports Illustrated. That means we will have an...
Silly Season
UAB is going to hire Trent Dilfer as head coach. He was apparently a late-entrant into the coaching search – at least to the people trying to cover the...
2022: UTSA vs UNT Championship Preview
We published a preview on the actual website this time. Check it out! link
Championship Game Set, Taggart Fired
UTSA will host UNT (again) in the league title game on December 2nd, at 6:30 pm. The Roadrunners knew they would host coming into this weekend, but were...
A Little Hoops Discussion
This is a free post. Sign up for the newsletter and pay a nominal fee for all the writing I hope you all had a great of a Thanksgiving as I did. I had family...
Blowouts Before The Storm
The week that was: UTSA took care of Rice in Houston. We’ve been waiting for Mike Bloomgren to blossom at Rice for years now. They seemed like they had...
We Interrupt Your Programming For a Basketball Post
The basketball season started, and while there is plenty of time before conference play in earnest begins, it is a good idea to set the stage. I realize many...
Everything Is Clearer Now
November brings
Title Game Scenarios, and UAB
UTSA 4-0 Win the regular season and host if they win out @ UAB, Tech, @ Rice, UTEP UNT 4-1 Clinch 2nd and play in the title game on Dec 2nd by winning out...
CUSA Game Day
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A Shape Of Things To Come: A Power Ranking
Greetings from the internet. CR was on a longer-than-expected hiatus as we were doing some reorganizing behind the scenes. We noted on twitter, but not in...
Middle and UTSA Was Fun, Might Be A Preview
This is a free version of the newsletter. Sign up for CUSA coverage through the football season, and through the hoops season. I am quite sure when the...
The Week That Was: CUSA Week 4
MEMPHIS, TN --- CR was in Memphis to watch North Texas at the Tigers. It was entertaining, which is the entire point If I recall. The real action was...
Press Conference Quotes
Each week the league’s coaches do a press conference and the value therein ranges from very insightful to simply an opportunity to say the same four cliches...
What Is the Value Of An Upset?
Jeff Traylor’s UTSA Roadrunners scored a touchdown on a grinding drive in Austin. They followed the score up with a surprise onside kick, the kind of things...
Week Three Power Rankings, Reactions
CUSAREPORT went 7-3 against the spread, with North Texas (last second TD and an interception in the end zone from backup Grant Gunnell!), UAB (loss), and...
Week Two Picks Against the Spread
You want picks? I got picks. Well here are the picks against the spread on Action Network app this morning, as I listened to a completely unnecessary meeting...
Touchdowns So Far
I was browsing through some stats on cbstats.com and noticed the touchdown count so far. WKU has 12 in two games, and FAU has 10 in the same number. North...
Final Countdown: Week 1 Recap, Power Ranking
Happy Labor Day, folks. This is week one, which followed week zero (stupid). There are a lot of questions being answered right now, and questions being asked...
Preseason Lists Are Marginally Useful
I greatly dislike the “List of Stuff” offseason content parade. Unfortunately, it draws eyeballs and eyeballs == $$. Well at least that is the idea. There...
Long Time, No Write -- Summer Preview of What Is Left
Greetings from the Mississippi River. The last we spoke the league had more teams and there was a lawsuit maybe on the horizon. Since then, Marshall,...
Championship Game
We previewed the game on the site. This week has been tiring. You can see the staffers and the various media crazy enough to be here all week for all games....
Quick Turnaround
The night-to-morning switch is not ideal. Middle played an overtime game last night. North Texas and Louisiana Tech finished their games up around 8pm, but...
CUSA Tournament Day 3
I will start by linking you to Sam Doughton. We also had the recap from day 2 and the premium version of the recap There will also be a quarterfinal preview...
Tourney Day 2
The best part of the tournament is the early days, as seeing all 14 programs in one spot is a great time to get a sense of the differences between cultures,...
CUSA Tournament Day One
Yesterday was a travel day. Your Truly left St Louis, MO to get to Frisco, TX. All in all it was a short trip. It was made a little longer to bring along my...
Mega Podcast
It’s long. It’s big. It’s the mega podcast preview of all 14 men’s teams in the CUSA tournament. https://cusareport.com/podcast/2022-tournament-mega-preview/...
Tournament Pre-Preview
Over on the website proper, we previewed the tournament with a game remaining. There is a slight chance that the bracket we printed and posted is different...
Middle, North Texas: Division Champs
Both of our current division champions are unlikely finishers. Like, check out one of my favorite season-previews from Three-Man-Weave. They had it all...
More on Legal Fight To Leave CUSA, And Basketball Thoughts
Russia is invading Ukraine and we are writing about college basketball and a fight over maybe money, I think. I do not work in the Pentagon, the state...
Marshall Sues The League
The Lawyers have been engaged. You might remember that Marshall U is one of the three schools looking to leave CUSA early. Both the league and the programs...
Tylor Perry Is Clutch and Other CUSA Stories
The basketball hype coming into this weekend centered around the UAB-North Texas game. It was shaping up to be a battle between a couple of programs destined...
Realignment Drama Aside, Let us Talk Basketball
The realignment saga will likely continue with lawyers and public relations specialists, and twitter fights. In the mean time, we have some quality...
We Are Headed For A Confrontation
Today CUSA released the 2022 schedule and it includes Marshall, Southern Miss, and Old Dominion. After, CUSA's Board of Directors sent the following...
UAB Lost To ODU??
The Blazers were ranked highest in Kenpoms ratings up until this weekend, when they dropped a road game to Old Dominion. The Monarchs are not particularly...
CUSA Is Breaking Up Badly
This afternoon USM, ODU, and Marshall announced they were leaving the league this summer. It was long-rumored to be coming and the three...