Welcome to The Sports Bank’s third annual college basketball season preview series. Two years we looked at 99 teams in 99 days. Last year, we were slightly more aggressive and expanded to 111 teams in 111 days and will do so again as we look ahead to the 2012-2013 season. We will rank the 75 power conference teams and top 36 mid-majors in reverse power ranking order. … [Read more...] about #100 DePaul Blue Demons: College Basketball 111 in 111
Oliver Purnell
DePaul Will Continue Running and Gunning This Year
Last night DePaul defeated the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils, a team that will spend the first two months of the season on the road, with trips to No. 1 North Carolina, eighth-ranked Florida, and No. 15 Wisconsin along the way. The Delta Devils opened the season on Saturday, losing 80-67 at Notre Dame. As they embark on the long road trip, they'll no doubt remember … [Read more...] about DePaul Will Continue Running and Gunning This Year
DePaul Blue Demons off to 2-0 Start
In two of the last three years, DePaul has won four of their first five. So very early season success is nothing new to them. It's the Big East conference games where the trouble starts. But January 1 versus Syracuse can wait for now, as the Blue Demons rolled past the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils (Yes, Blue Demons versus Delta Devils, Satan no doubt loves the … [Read more...] about DePaul Blue Demons off to 2-0 Start
DePaul, UIC Signing Day Synopsis
DePaul coach Oliver Purnell inked two players Wednesday to a National Letter of Intent with DeJuan Marrero and Jodan Price. Marrero is a 6’5” forward from Gary, Ind. and Price is a 6’7” guard/forward from Beverly Hills, Mich. Marrero averaged 22.1 points and 15.3 rebounds per game as a junior at Gary’s Bowman Academy. The two-time member of the Times of Northwest Indiana … [Read more...] about DePaul, UIC Signing Day Synopsis
DePaul Blue Demons Now Left with Just 9 Scholarship Players
Any chance that Oliver Purnell's re-building project at DePaul would take effect this season has been severely hampered due to the loss of two players to injury and one freshman being ruled ineligible. And yesterday that freshman withdrew so he won't be available for 2012-23 now either. As a result, the Blue Demons will enter the 2011-2012 season with just nine scholarship … [Read more...] about DePaul Blue Demons Now Left with Just 9 Scholarship Players
