Friday afternoon saw Davidson pull out another solid win, making it a clean 5-0 start to begin year four of the Matt McKillop era. The Cats have achieved this impressive start playing an attractive brand of basketball we have affectionately coined “ Matt Ball ”; hitting shots on offense, stopping opposing teams on defense, and playing nearly 12 guys a night. According to KenPom the Cats have jumped nearly 40 spots, in less than three weeks, from 150 th  in the preseason to 11

Since taking over as Head Coach, it has been clear that Matt McKillop wanted his teams to play a different style than Bob McKillop's. Same motion offense, same pack line defense, same first principles, but it was going to look and feel different. Matt's teams wanted to be more athletic, play with more tempo, and make their hay on the defensive end. We have, at times skeptically, called this "Matt Ball". Well, after three seasons of misfires it appears Matt Ball has finally ar

Davidson did just about everything a fan could ask for against Washington State, playing a complete game that saw the Cats not only lead wire-to-wire against the Cougars but dominate them, maintaining a lead that rarely fell below 15. I could tell you about how the individual players looked really good, how the defense was miles better than anything we saw last year, or how the offense moved the ball crisply and nailed open looks, but it's much easier to simply state that las

The concept of timelines in sports is inherently silly. They don't exist, but they control us anyway. They set our expectations, manage our hopes, and serve as the basis for all of our best laid plans. Timelines are mostly for GMs and podcasters, not the ones suiting up every night. Podcasters (and GMs, for that matter) are famously often wrong. One thing that is very real , though, is The Leap. We all know it when we see it: it's that feeling that everything has very quickly

The leaves have changed color, the clocks have been turned back, and the jackets have been taken out of the closest. It’s College Basketball Season again and hope springs eternal. For basketball-inclined Davidsonians this time of the year has often carried with it feelings of hope and optimism. For a magnificent stretch of almost three decades Bob McKillop built and helmed a program that let fans reasonably believe that their Cats would be contending for conference champions

If you ask any Davidson basketball fan why last season went so awry, they are bound to answer: the three-point shooting. Yes, the defense was bad, but it was bad throughout the season. It was the fall off in three-point shooting that dovetailed with the team's disastrous 2025. In case you are a glutton for pain, the Cats had the 54th best offense in the country during the non-con when they shot 36.5% from 3. In A10 play Davidson's offense cratered to 156th, in large part beca

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The level of coaching in the Atlantic 10 is as high as I can remember. The league has a very strong opportunity to send 3 teams to the...