MEAC Notebook Pirates To MEAC Foes: Walk The Plank! Hampton’s coming out party came last March when they became only the fourth No. 15 seed to upset a No. 2 seed as they stunned Iowa State 58-57 in Boise during last year’s NCAA Tournament. Riding high off of that “one […]
Month: February 2002
C-USA Notebook
C-USA Notebook What did we learn from Marquette’s through 74-60 pounding of Cincinnati on Feb. 2? 1. Cincinnati is a very good team and will, as I said before the season started, scare the bejeezus out of Duke or Maryland or Kansas, et al before the NCAA Tournament is over. […]
Mid-Season Awards
A Mid-Season’s Dream by Bill Thayer I recently read in an article in a North Carolina paper that one writer was glad to see that we have passed the midway point in the season because he was sick of reading mindless awards lists. That reminded me, nobody in Hoopville had […]
Big West Notebook
Big West Notebook Championship Showdown Cal-State Northridge probably thinks otherwise, but the regular season conference championship should be decided February 9th at UC-Irvine. On that day, the Utah State Aggies visit the Anteaters. The two dominant teams in the conference will battle it out for the second time of the […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook Your Big 5 Champion is . . .Penn? With all the basketball powerhouses in Philly, it’s hard to believe that the Penn Quakers are the Big 5 Champ. You can look it up, but Fran Dunphy’s team bested LaSalle, Villanova, Temple, Drexel (unofficial member of the Fivesome) […]
Colonized!
Colonized! The Four New CAA Teams. by Adam Shandler Remember the later years of Diff’rent Strokes when Arnold and Willis got an adopted brother Sammy? He was the annoying, snot-nosed son of Mr. Drummond’s love interest (played one year by Dixie Carter, and the second season by Mary Ann Mobley. […]
ACC Notebook
ACC Notebook State Looks Great With two senior guards leading the Pack, North Carolina State is on its way to its first NCAA Tournament since 1991. “Anthony Grundy and Archie Miller are certainly not only providing us with outstanding play, but more importantly just great leadership,” NC State coach Herb […]
Southern Notebook
Southern Notebook Top ‘Cats Although Davidson was upset at home by Western Carolina on January 26th, the Wildcats have still won seven of their last eight games after being throttled by Duke in Charlotte back in early January. The ‘Cats latest win came at the hands of Wofford on January […]
Unnecessary Greatness
Unnecessary Greatness by David Mosse It’s been roughly one month since the apocalypse. An event so unthinkable it had fans in Durham rushing to nearby churches in search of an explanation from a higher power – the Duke Blue Devils lost a basketball game. On January 6th, in Tallahassee, despite […]
C-USA Notebook
C-USA Notebook OK, it’s time for some midseason awards. Without further ado… Player of the Year: Steve Logan of Cincinnati. He’s been the sparkplug behind one of the biggest surprises of the season — the Bearcats’ nation-best 19-game winning streak. I said before the season started that he could be […]
