Cracker’s College Hoops Articles

If you read what I wrote the other day you might remember how I started off the article with a quote from Kendle Moore about staying true to who they are and being the Rams. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about the game itself because I wasn’t at the T&M […] READ MORE

“Stick to what we know. And be the Rams” – Kendle Moore So here we are ready to to begin tournament season. And the first game is Fresno State tonight. I decided to stop writing game previews early in the season. The first one I wrote was prior to the CSU-St Mary’s game to start […] READ MORE

By now you know the results. The CSU Men lost on a last-second three to Nevada, damaging their NCAA At-Large chances, as their NET Ranking fell from 41 to 50. The CSU Women were top of the league for the entire season but lost their two final games to New Mexico to fall out of […] READ MORE

I’m going to keep this nice and simple. Due to COVID-19, the 2020-21 seasons have been a cluster. On top of that, the Mountain West Conference brass has made some curious and inconsistent decisions that have put both CSU programs into very tenuous and unfair positions. Back in mid-January, COVID struck several MWC womens’ programs […] READ MORE

Elbert, Massive, Long’s, Pike’s. All well-known amongst the 53 peaks in Colorado that are known as “Fourteeners”. And the 20-21 Rams’ Basketball team created a fourteener of their own as they ran out to a healthy double-digit first half lead in scoring their 14th conference victory of the season, an all-time school record. The Rams […] READ MORE

Looking resplendent in their special State Pride uniforms, (make that State PriDe with a capital D!), the Colorado State Rams scored an important victory in their quest for a Mountain West regular season conference championship. For the second game in a row against the visitors from Colorado Springs, they did it by playing stifling man-to-man […] READ MORE

Its been a wild and bumpy ride to date for those of us who follow both CSU basketball squads. After a three week pause due to COVID in their opponents’ programs, they both returned to the court and delivered nearly identical wins over Air Force. 72-49 for the men and 72-48 for the women. And […] READ MORE

Back on the court for the first time in three weeks, the CSU Men’s Basketball team rode their defense once again to kickstart their late season drive toward a conference championship. It didn’t look that way early as the Rams were misfiring on the offensive end and struggling to deal with the precision Princeton offense […] READ MORE

If you’ve read any of my stuff the past few days, you know what the CSU Men’s Basketball team is up against in their quest for a regular season MWC Championship, a conference tournament championship, and a bid to the NCAA Tournament. I haven’t even talked about the league-leading CSU Women’s Basketball team’s similar quest […] READ MORE

So my last post discussed the rescheduled games for the CSU Men. Today, the Mountain West announced that the Nevada game scheduled for March 3rd was being canceled due to a COVID outbreak at San Jose State. Which gives the Nevada team two extra days to prepare for the CSU game on Friday, March 5th. […] READ MORE