About Hoopville

Hoopville was founded in the autumn of 2001 by a loose band of college basketball brothers. We decided to take our affinity for college basketball and share our considerable knowledge with the masses that were facing a shortage of quality copy to read in their cubicle during their lunch breaks. The masses have spoken, and thus, we present Hoopville.

We provide insights into the game we all love. Our goal is to deliver top-flight commentary, analysis, and honest and humorous editorials on the hoops game. We'll wrap it up in March with exhaustive coverage of Championship Week, and of course the NCAA Tournament. And our own modest little Hoops Tournament Challenge, of course.

In Hoopville, we provide coverage of all NCAA Division 1-A conferences and Independents - that's over 330 teams! How do we do this? We have a squad of highly motivated (and talented) basketball writers scattered across the nation, from Boston to LA, from Washington State to Orlando, and everywhere in between. Each of these Hoopville columnists and contributors are dedicated to bringing you the finest in college basketball writing.

That said, we wouldn't be here if it weren't for the fans. This is your Hoopville, as well as ours. Feel we're doing your team or conference an injustice? Let us know. Have a question or a suggestion? Bring it. We're game. Communication with the Hoopville staff can be accomplished by visiting the Contact page. We want to hear from you!

Hoopville, Hoopville.com, Hoopville.net, and the Hoopville Tournament Challenge are owned and operated by Hoopville Media Enterprises, LLC.

Editorial and Business Offices:

Hoopville Media Enterprises, LLC
P.O. Box 11411
Chandler, AZ 85248

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Site design, graphic design and web development by Managing Editor Andrew Flynn of Hoopville Media Enterprises, LLC.

Content Management System and hosting provided by Barry Stahl of Copperbyte Consulting.

Hoopville's Logo Font was inspired by stylized old fruit crate label fonts of the 1920's and 30's. The "Hoopguy" logo was created in Photoshop 6. All typography is controlled with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), in an effort to make the text easy to read. The default font is Verdana.

The graphic fonts are SF Movie Poster v1.2, a true type freeware font found readily on the web. SF Movie Poster was created by Derek Vogelpohl of the ShyFont type foundry, which closed in 2001 as Derek joined Hard Cover Media Labs.

Hoopville resides on the Microsoft .NET platform, and is coded to comply with Web Standards. Thus, this site validates for HTML 4.01 Transitional and Cascading Style Sheets 2. Except for those pages from last season, which have the blue background. We'll get to those shortly.

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