Welcome to the season! There are a lot of links this week because with practice starting everyone is starting to get their opinions in about the college basketball season. Lots of information about Blue Madness at DePaul, Midnight Madness at Loyola, Big Ten previews and the like after the jump. DePaul:
- The Blue Demons had a number of local recruits in to check out Blue Madness on Friday. WeAreDePaul has the full rundown.
- A Bleacher Report preview of DePaul.
- ESPNChicago's Scott Power has been busy lately. He talked to Will Walker before practices started on Friday.
- DraftExpress has Mac Koshwal ranked as the 11th best NBA prospect in the Big East.
- The Blue Ribbon Preview of DePaul (ESPNInsider required). Final rankings: Backcourt: B-, Bench/Depth: C-, Frontcourt: B, Intangibles: C-.
Northwestern:
- Powers profiles Kevin Coble as Coble gets set for his final campaign in Evanston. Coble has added 10 pounds of muscle in an effort to not get pushed around so much during Big Ten play this season.
UIC:
- If you want to get a feel for UIC's team for the 2009-10 season definitely check out the Flames Connect podcast with Jimmy Collins. There is a lot of good information there. While there's no information about why Spencer Stewart is suspended, there is information about the Flames' intention to press this season, the plan to go deeper into the bench and some helpful information about all the new players on the roster.
- The Flames don't have Midnight Madness, but they did have the Season Tip-Off Breakfast for the third season in a row. Some information about it is available here.
General Links:
- Powers ranks all of the college basketball teams in the state of Illinois. He's got Northwestern at #3 to start the season behind Illinois and Notre Dame. The Wildcats will have a chance to change that ranking when they play the Irish is the Chicago Invitational Challenge.
- The Daily Herald took a look at the start of practice in Evanston, Lincoln Park and Rogers Park on Friday. Also, there's a more general recap article here that is mostly about Illinois.
- Joe Slowik at Bleacher Report previews the Big Ten Conference.
- Basketball coaching trees from Bear Talk (a California blog).
- Mid-Major Madness continues its ultimate rankings series and DePaul checks in at 155, while UIC is 179.
- The Wooden Award Men's Preseason List. (How did Kevin Coble not make this list?)
- The Big East high-low predictions from Collegehoops.net have DePaul finishing between 14th and 16th place in the conference.
- A preseason look at the Big Ten from BTN's Brent Yarina.
Look for player profiles everyday this week on Chicago College Basketball. First up on Monday is Loyola's Andy Polka.
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