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One & Done: Derrick Caracter Will Enter the 2010 NBA Draft
Twenty-seven games. That's all the UTEP basketball team was able to get out of Derrick Caracter's tenure as a Miner. CBS Sports Gary Parrish technically broke the story but we've known for some time that DC wouldn't return for his senior season. Towards the end of the season, he was arguably our...
Here We Go Again: Tony Barbee Follows in His Predecessors Footsteps
Don Haskins was an amazing coach. Why? Not only did he win a national championship and have consistent success over four decades coaching; he also valued living in El Paso and building the Miner program. Bigger schools called. NBA teams called. The Bear didn't listen. Don Haskins was loyal...
The Rushies: Best 2010 C-USA Game
This season, we were treated to tons of excellent games. Which one was the best? Let's take a look at the candidates. The Candidates (In no particular order) 1. UCF 115 - Marshall 121 (3 OT) (February 27, 2010) This was one of those surreal C-USA battles. There were no real stakes in this...
Caracter Issues: UTEP Center Making the Most of his Second Chance
In middle school, Derrick Caracter was a 6'9" and 286 pound basketball prodigy. He was the first middle-school athlete to ever be invited the the Nike All-American camps. The over-sized teen sensation had a personal trainer, squatted 350 lbs. on one leg, and was worshiped as a future NBA star. ...
Derrick Caracter's 2008 Offseason Escapades: Chapter 497
Multiple sources, including SNY's Adam Zagoria, have reported in recent hours that Rick Pitino has offered Derrick Caracter an opportunity to return to the Louisville basketball for the 2009-2010 season, and that Caracter has accepted. In a statement released Wednesday evening, Pitino...
Pitino: Caracter to transfer
Per Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports: When I was looking down the NBA’s official list of who withdrew from the NBA Draft, one out of the 48 names (31 are from U.S. colleges) caught my eye. Derrick Caracter. So I called Rick Pitino. Pitino told me D.C. is transferring. However, he still...
Derrick Caracter saga knows no boundaries, end
Derrick Caracter is back in the news this morning, begging the question of whether or not there's ever been more summer attention devoted to a college basketball player who's never averaged more than eight points in a season. The latest turn comes from - appropriately, I suppose - the blog of Rick...
The sad story of Derrick Caracter
When Terrance Farley checked in for David Padgett in the second half of what would ultimately be the final game of the 2007-2008 Louisville basketball season, I leaned over to my friends and said, "A fitting end to the Derrick Caracter era." The statement has only grown truer in recent...
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