ACC – Big Ten Challenge Preview: Part 2 of 3 Editor’s Note: With this week’s ACC – Big Ten Challenge featuring a number of top-ranked teams, we’ve asked our resident experts to prognosticate the nine games that will take place over the next two days. As they did in yesterday’s […]
Month: November 2001
Part 1
ACC – Big Ten Challenge Preview: Part 1 of 3 Editor’s Note: With this week’s ACC – Big Ten Challenge featuring a number of top-ranked teams, we’ve asked our resident experts to prognosticate the nine games that will take place over the next two days. Mark McGrath, our Big Ten […]
Big East Preview
2001-02 Big East Conference Preview by Brian Seymour Syracuse and Georgetown picked to be at the top of the Big East? It’s like the mid-1980s – heaven for hoops nostalgics. Of course, you have to expect some shockwaves now and then – the question is which team will provide the […]
Mid-American Preview
2001-02 Mid-American Conference Preview by Brian Seymour Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past ten years or living in the obviously under-oxygeniated hotel room where the NCAA selection committee annually selects schools for the 64-team tournament, you know that the Mid-American Conference plays some great basketball. To […]
Metro Atlantic Preview
2001-02 Metro Atlantic Conference Preview by Adam Shandler The NCAA selection committee might take some pity on the MAAC this year and toss them an extra bid to the tourney. But they’ve got to earn it. In the early going, it’s hard not to like Iona but Canisius, Manhattan, Niagara […]
Horizon League Preview
2001-02 Horizon League Preview by Brian Seymour While doing research on the Internet, I had to jump through dozens of hoops — no pun intended — to get information about the Horizon League, which is evidence of a conference with a serious identity problem. Of course, part of the identity […]
Ivy League Preview
2001-02 Ivy League Preview by Adam Shandler Attention Ivy Leaguers: Anybody? Anybody? Anybody other than Princeton and Penn? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you want me to say Penn or Princeton is going to win the Ivy and then move on with “yada yada” reports about the also-rans. Can’t say I blame […]
Conference USA Preview
2001-02 Conference USA Preview by Brian Seymour Dajuan Wagner. Dajuan Wagner. Dajuan Wagner. Dajuan Wagner. Dajuan Wagner. Dajuan Wagner. And possibly even Dajuan Wagner. There. Just thought we’d get that out of the way early in the season. Might as well get used to it, though. That name is going […]
Northeast Preview
2001-02 Northeast Conference Preview by Lon Samuelson Also known as “The NCAA sacrificial lamb” the other (Big East) other (A-10) other (MAAC) conference based in the New York / New Jersey Metro area is the Northeast Conference. One of the few conferences to have never won an NCAA tournament game […]
Colonial Preview
2001-02 Colonial Athletic Ass’n Preview by Adam Shandler So, anyway, I’ve been asked by my editor-on-high to write up a nice little preview for the Colonial Athletic Conference. Don’t think I didn’t see you roll your eyes! Hey, don’t sleep on the mid-majors. This conference has at least 2 teams […]
