April 6, 2011
NCDS: Jay Walton, Asst. Coach - Lipscomb ("Final Four Weekend")
At the end of each season I look forward to attending the Final Four and the NABC Convention. A weekend of relaxation, professional development and good basketball is a nice way to wrap up the season.

February 28, 2011
NCDS: Jay Walton, Asst. Coach - Lipscomb ("Senior Day")
Recently, we celebrated Senior Day at Allen Arena and said goodbye to four special young men. I wanted to share some thoughts about each of these young men and what they have meant to our program.

January 28, 2011
NCDS: Jay Walton, Asst. Coach - Lipscomb
Over the course of a college basketball season, a team goes on what can only be described as an emotional roller coaster ride. There are so many ups and downs, highs and lows. Just this weekend, in a span of less than 48 hours, we went from the low of suffering a one-point loss to the high of a 20-point road victory. Now that’s an extreme range.

December 23, 2010
NCDS: Jay Walton, Asst. Coach - Lipscomb
Assistant Coach Jay Walton on legendary coach Don Meyer

November 20, 2010
NCDS: Jay Walton, Asst. Coach - Lipscomb ("A Coach's Life")
Jay Walton gives you an inside, month-by-month look at a coach's life during the offseason in this week's feature NCDS entry.

March 16, 2010
NCDS: Jay Walton, Asst. Coach - Lipscomb
I remember the feeling going back to high school. Your season ends, almost always sooner than you hoped, and for a few days you don’t know what to do with yourself. Three o’clock rolls around each afternoon and there is no practice to go to and no upcoming opponent for which to prepare.

March 3, 2010
NCDS: Jay Walton, Asst. Coach - Lipscomb ("Preparing for the Atlantic Sun tourney")
347 Division I teams began the season months ago with plenty of dreams and desires, some more realistic than others. March is a month for dreams in the world of college basketball. Some of us will have our wildest ones come true. For others of us, they will come crashing down like an airball from three point range.

February 27, 2010
NCDS: Jay Walton, Asst. Coach - Lipscomb ("The Art of the Post Feed")
Flannery O'Connor once famously wrote that a "Good Man is Hard to Find." Had she been a college basketball coach she may have well titled her short story "A Big Man is Hard to Find." A quality post player that is a legitimate scoring threat is a luxury that many teams quite simply do not have, especially at the Mid-Major level.

February 15, 2010
NCDS: Jay Walton, Asst. Coach - Lipscomb
"We control our own destiny." Not sure what coach first coined that phrase, but the rest of us, as coaches are known to do, have stolen it and applied it nearly ad nauseum whenever we've had the chance. This bit of coachspeak describes a situation where a team can win a championship or secure a top seed for a conference tournament by winning its remaining games.