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Long before starting
Collegiate Basketball News Company in 1991,
Jim Sukup was involved with several aspects of college basketball. Sukup was a freelance basketball writer for Basketball Weekly
from 1985 through 1991 and wrote articles that covered a wide range of topics
that were mainly centered around the NCAA tournament. The NCAA and NIT tournaments
are some of his favorite basketball-related interests.
Sukup gained a love of college basketball at Indiana
University, earning a B.S. in Geology in 1975, and he kept an eye on IU
basketball and coach Bobby Knight for the better part of three decades.
Continuing on at the University of Wyoming, Sukup critiqued coaches Moe Radovich
and Don DeVoe as they prowled the sidelines at the old Fieldhouse when the Cowboys took to the court. He received an M.S. in Geology from UW in 1978, with a
thesis topic of Cretaceous Planktonic Foraminifera from Salzer-Saltzgitter,
West Germany.
Sukup worked for Union Pacific Resources Company
(previously called Rocky Mountain Energy Company, which is now
known as
Anadarko Petroleum) from 1978 through 1991, working his way up from Entry
Level Geologist to Senior Geologist. His work was primarily involved in uranium
exploration in the states of Wyoming and Arizona. While with UPRC Sukup was
based near Shoshone, Wyoming; Casper, Wyoming; Denver, Colorado; and
Flagstaff, Arizona. However, his work was scattered throughout most of the western United
States. Sukup has been an independent geological consultant from 1991
through the present, working on many different and diverse projects. They
include involvement with minerals exploration
and development, on-site management of an EPA Superfund site, groundwater
monitoring and statistical analysis of groundwater components and contaminants
at several landfills, trace element studies at a U.S. nuclear facility, investigation and
remediation of groundwater at an elementary school in Indiana, along with many
additional facets of
environmental geology. Sukup was a Project Hydrogeologist with
Indianapolis-based Keramida Environmental from 1993 to 1997, and he presently
works during the college basketball off-season as a Project Geologist with
Mundell & Associates, where
he has worked since 1997. Mundell is based in Indianapolis and
specializes in providing groundwater and contaminant modeling, geophysical
services, subsurface investigations, scientific evaluations, and litigation
support to both public and private sector clients. Sukup is a member of
several geological organizations and is a licensed professional geologist in
Indiana and Wyoming.
On the basketball front, Sukup was a freelance basketball writer
for Basketball Weekly from 1985 through 1991 and wrote articles
with a wide range of topics. He covered the 1990 Maui Invitational
for BW, and he detailed the components of the RPI in another
BW article that year. He covered Northern Arizona University
basketball while in Flagstaff during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Sukup launched
Collegiate Basketball News Company (CBN) in 1991 and published
Collegiate Basketball News, a Big Ten basketball newsletter, from 1991
through 1993. Sukup is currently the Editor and Publisher of The RPI
Report and The Women's RPI Report. The first issue of
The RPI Report was published on January 6, 1992 and it has been
published on a weekly basis during the college basketball season since then.
The 2005-2006 season is the 15th year of Publication of
The RPI Report.
The first issue of The Women’s RPI Report was published on
January 20,1997, and the 2005-2006 season is its 10th year of
publication. CBN's
www.rpiratings.com
web site, which Sukup updates on a daily basis during
the season, has been online since 1997. Sukup has been a member of the U.
S. Basketball Writers Association since 1987.
Sukup enjoys camping, hiking, and backpacking in the western U.S. and gets out west at
least once a year. His four most recent backpacking expeditions include the
Navajo Mountain/Rainbow Bridge Trail, Utah (2005), Kettle Moraine/Ice Age Trail,
Wisconsin (2004), Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (2003), and Shoshone Geyser
Basin, Yellowstone National Park (2002). Check back here later to view some of the areas where Sukup has
worked and played.
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