For Immediate Release November 12, 2018 BOSTON, MA – HoopDirt.com and Just Play Solutions have strengthened their partnership by once again teaming up to present college basketball’s Coach of the Week Award, culminating in the 2018-19 Coach of the Year Award. This will be the fourth season that HoopDirt.com will recognize coaches weekly at
SPORTS ANALYTICS IN THE CLASSROOM: HOW ONE HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY IS CHANGING THE GAME
By 2022, the sports analytics market is expected to skyrocket to $4 billion. Yet even as top international players are duking it out for industry supremacy, an assistant professor of computer science at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C. is poised to make just as big an impact on the data-charged future of sports.
Pro Shooting Workout with Courtney Boylan-Douglass
Dr. Dish basketball recently caught up with former Big Ten star and professional player Courtney Boylan-Douglass. She’s currently playing overseas basketball for Elitzur Holon which is located in Israel. Courtney, a tremendous leader and vital piece for the University of Michigan was a 4-year player from 2008- 2012. This summer she’s had the opportunity to
The Coach’s Insight, featuring Chaminade University Head Coach Eric Bovaird
Coach Eric Bovaird, Head Coach at Chaminade University, talks about their rich basketball tradition, playing (and sometimes beating) Power 5 opponents, the Maui Invitational, and the inner workings of running a program in state of Hawaii. View past Episodes of The Coach’s Insight: Episode 1: HoopDirt.com’s DirtKing Adam Nelson Episode 2: Cal State Fullerton Associate Head Coach
MEASURING GRIT: HOW UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY USES SHOTTRACKER TO MAKE PRACTICE PERFECT
Ask Utah Valley University’s men’s basketball coach Mark Pope how his Wolverines jumped, in just one year, from 291st all the way up to 29th ranked D1 program in three-point shooting percentage and he will talk your ear off about Grit: The Passion and Power of Perseverance. “It’s a bestselling book by Angela Duckworth
NBA Shooting Workout with Boston Celtics SG/SF Semi Ojeleye
It’s always great following our friends and partners at Pure Sweat Basketball train NBA and top colleges players in the off-season. If you don’t know Pure Sweat and Drew Hanlen, the Founder of Pure Sweat Basketball and Pro Skills Trainer, by now you should get ready to hear his name for many more years to
Checking the Trash Cans
By Aaron Hanshaw @CoachAaronH At one coaching stop of mine, every postgame was the same. After our postgame chat, I would make sure our DVD was clean and start burning copies. I’d talk with Coach in the office, look at conference scores from that night, and start updating the stats in my scout for the
Dr. Dish Skill Builder: How to Get Out of a Shooting Slump
Everybody who’s ever played the game has been there: shots just aren’t falling. Even some of the greatest shooters to ever play the game have encountered shooting slumps. They’re not fun, and they’re not always easy to get out of. However, they’re also not impossible to get out of. Sometimes it’s mental, sometimes it’s physical,
UIC’s McClain and FastModel caught in violation of Ethics Act
Two years ago, Steve McClain (Head Coach – University of Illinois at Chicago) violated the state’s Ethics Act when he received $2,500 from a Chicago company that sells software to UIC and other colleges. The Ethics Act prohibits state employees from taking gifts from vendors. This finding (HERE)— which got very little, if any, public attention
Sacramento Kings Point Guard, Frank Mason III Visits the Dish Lab
Since we built the Dish Lab a few years ago we’ve been very fortunate to have many great players stop by to work out while utilizing Dr. Dish machines. Recently, we had Frank Mason III travel directly from Panama City where he was playing for USA Basketball to join us in the Dish Lab to
