I'm Back

Well, it's been about half a year since I've done one of these. I kind of fell out of blogging about the sport I love after I found out from all the colleges I applied to. After that, a mix of senioritis and the offseason kicked in and I just stopped. Here are a few updates:

I ended up choosing to attend Marquette University.

I applied to 9 colleges, and for the OG followers (of which there are few if any), you'll remember that the primary reason for starting this blog was to enhance my college apps and hopefully get into Duke. That didn't happen, and I ended up getting denied from Duke, waitlisted by Notre Dame and Northwestern and accepted to Boston College, Marquette, Villanova, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Dayton.

I came down to Marquette and Wisconsin, as I didn't want to go that far from home, and Marquette and Wisconsin had decent basketball programs. (Yes, the strength of a school's college basketball program was a top 3 criterion for me choosing a college.) I chose Marquette over Wisconsin because more of my friends were going there and I had a better setup overall than if I had gone to Wisconsin. So here we are. So if my Marquette coverage is a bit biased, well, I have a good reason.

I have no idea how I'm going to cover this season.

Literally no clue. I find that my time is more limited, but I have more of it at the same time. Whenever I think I have something meaningful to say regarding basketball, I'll post it here. I'm not sure how often that'll happen, but we'll see as we go along the way.

I'm going to try to get more player/recruit features

I thought the player interviews and podcasts were some of the most fun and interesting posts I had on the original site, so I'm going to try and get as many of those out there as I can. To update you on the players I've interviewed over the years, Anfernee Simons, who was committed to Louisville at the time, ended up decommitting from there and entering the 2018 NBA Draft, where he was selected 24th overall by the Portland Trailblazers. Ayo Dosunmu ended up committing to Illinois, where he is projected to be one of the top freshmen in the Big Ten. Zion Griffin is now at Iowa State, where he is considered an under-the-radar freshman who can contribute right away.

The status of the podcast is uncertain.

I have no idea whether or not I'm going to do the podcast again. By the end, it just got so herky-jerky with the scheduling that it was hard to gain a consistent audience. (I also kinda sucked at doing them). So I might have special podcasts throughout the season for big events and games, but at the moment I'm not going to be uploading them every week.

I'm going to try to get guest writers.

I got so tired of writing about my personal opinions, so I know you all did as well. I'm going to try and fix that by having special guests write about whatever they want involving the game of basketball. I feel like that will spice things up a little more than before.

Overall, expect less content, but better content. My posts will be longer and more detailed (hopefully) but they might not come out as frequently as before. Again none of this is set in stone, but this is how I see the New Era of the BBB playing out. So here's to an exciting upcoming basketball season. It's good to be back.