Horizon Notebook If you’re looking for a potential surprise team when Horizon League conference games kick off, look no further than Illinois Chicago. It should be said that it’s still unlikely for anyone except Detroit Mercy to unseat Butler as conference champion (and for more on the Bulldog juggernaut, keep […]
Month: December 2001
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook Kudos to South Florida coach Seth Greenberg for doing the right thing. After his star player and All-American candidate Altron Jackson headed into the locker room without shaking hands with any of the Gators players or coaches at the end of USF’s 92-73 loss to Florida on […]
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Notebook That buzzing you hear around the Mid-American Conference this season belongs to the “Killer B’s”. Ball State, Bowling Green and Buffalo – yes, Buffalo! – are the toast of the conference and turning heads with their outstanding performances. Much has been written and said about Ball State and […]
WAC Preview
2001-02 WAC Preview by Jason Drucker This conference is totally WAC, literally. After just one season as a nine-team league, the Western Athletic Conference has expanded to ten teams this season, despite the loss of the TCU Horned Frogs. The two newcomers are the Boise State Broncos and the Louisiana […]
Mid-Eastern Preview
2001-02 Mid-Eastern Athletic Preview by Adam Levinson The sights and sounds of the 2001 NCAA tournament will of course be remembered by Duke fans for the Blue Devil’s national championship. But if you ask people, many will say the most prolific lasting image is that of Hampton coach Steve Merfield […]
Big Ten Preview
2001-02 Big Ten Conference Preview by Mark McGrath It’s been the convenient benchmark in recent history to judge conference strength by the amount of teams invited to the big dance in March. However, here at the ‘Ville, we like to do things a bit differently. Our goal, at least my […]
Deja Vu all Over Again
Deja Vu all Over Again By Dan Hauptman Twenty-seven consecutive appearances. The last time that the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team did not make the NCAA tournament was 1974. Dean Smith was the coach, Matt Doherty was only 12 years old, and none of the current Tar Heels […]
The Hot Commonwealth
The Commonwealth vs. the CAA Making A Case For The Red-Hot Rams by Adam Shandler So being a fan of the JRR Tolkien trilogy Lord of the Rings, I just had to get me one of those light-up promotional goblets being offered at Burger King. My quest to the nearest […]
The Jimmy V Classic
A great night Jimmy would have called his own. Some laughed. Some thought. Some cried. Needless to say, everyone had a heck of a night. Jim Valvano, in a famous speech given at the ESPY awards less than two months before he succumbed to cancer in 1993, said these poignant […]
Southern Preview
2001-02 Southern Conference Preview by Jon Gonzalez All roads to the North Charleston Coliseum (site of this years SoCo Tournament) and the Southern Conference championship will once again run through the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The defending conference champion Spartans enjoy the luxury of having four returning starters, […]
