College basketball will be here soon, so expect to see a fair amount about it here. But before I start in on basketball, allow me to direct you once again over to Scott Freeman’s place to check out the converstaions going on regarding non-violence. Excellent posts and discussiong thus far. Okay, maybe a couple of other things before basketball, too.

Charlie Brown

My daughter and I went to see “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” last night at the worship center of our church. The creative arts ministry at our church put on the play for the community, including several public schools who attended yesterday afternoon. There are more showings tonight and tomorrow night, so if you’re reading this in the Little Rock area, go check it out. It was fantastic. I laughed a lot, enjoyed the singing and dancing, and my daughter loved it. They did a great job and I will look forward to seeing more productions from them in the future.

Hogs

We’re heading up to Fayetteville later today and attending the homecoming game tomorrow against “nobody state” or something like that. They’re playing a IAA school tomorrow and should beat them like, well, like USC beat them last year. Oh, and this year, too. I won the tickets here at work a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, I’ve never been to a game in Fayetteville (having only been to LR games in the past), so I’m looking forward to it. Plus, since they’re the tickets of our company president, they’re going to be pretty good seats.

No Paulus?

College basketball is just a month away, and I couldn’t be more excited. November through March is the greatest time of the year. And, with the season tipping off shortly, preseason articles about the upcoming season are being written more and more often. I just wanted to comment on one I read a couple of days ago.

This article is a ranking of the best college point guards for the upcoming season by this guy over at CBS Sportsline. Clearly, this man is an idiot. He has a top 20 point guard list for the upcoming college basketball season. The glaring omission is Duke point guard Greg Paulus. Obviously, I’m biased. But no sane person who knows anything about college basketball could possibly leave Paulus off a top 20 list. I’d think most would have him in a top 10 list, but defintely a top 20. I’m not suggesting he’s #1, but there simply are not 20 point guards in college basketball who will be better than him. It just won’t happen. Last season Paulus showed many signs of things to come, and like Bobby Hurley before him, I expect the freshmen turnovers to go by the wayside as he enters his second season. I’ve read that he’s also taken a cue from J.J. Redick in getting him self in excellent shape during the off-season. I don’t know if he’s in “Redick-shape” (probably not), but he’s obviously intent on improving, and he was pretty good as a freshman. With Redick and Williams gone, this will be his team and I expect him to be very good as a sophomore.

Of course, on the other hand, he did vote Josh McRoberts as the number 2 power forward, and that sounds about right. Perhaps he was just having a bad day when he did the point guards. Maybe he was a power forward (I doubt it) and knows nothing about point guards. Maybe he was on medication and was unable to think clearly. I don’t know, but Paulus’ omission is an egregious error that should be corrected immediately. There’s just no excuse for that.

More on college basketball over the next six months…