America East Tournament Notes by Phil Kasiecki The 2003 Choice Hotels International America East Tournament was held at Boston University over the past two days. The quarterfinals and semifinals featured some excellent games, with good basketball by and large. The championship game will be held at Boston University on Saturday, […]
Month: March 2003
Atlantic 10 Notebook
Atlantic Ten Notebook by David Francis Xavier’s Wild Week It’s that time of year again. It’s time to fill in the brackets, take 3 hour lunches, forget about everything else until 65 is down to 1. It’s March. It’s tournament time. For a lot of people (including myself), this is […]
Big West Notebook
Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan All as Planned in Final Week During the last week of the regular season, few upsets took place which means whatever seeding teams entered the week with, chances are they left with it. UC Santa Barbara (14-4) won both their games last week […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Passing the torch Marquette needed a win Saturday to claim the outright C-USA regular season title. Fittingly, they played the team that had won the previous seven titles, Cincinnati. After trailing the entire first half, the Golden Eagles and certain player of the […]
SEC Notebook
SEC Notebook by Rainer Sabin If there were one word to describe the Southeastern Conference this season, it would be strange. In a league that was defined by parity and saw the emergence of schools that don’t claim a rich basketball tradition, it was Kentucky, ironically, that swept through its […]
Touring Around New England
Touring Around New England by Phil Kasiecki Eagles Complete Comeback Despite Ending Ugly Boston College will be the top seed from the East Division in this week’s Big East Tournament, completing an amazing comeback after being 1-4 and looking like they might not even make the Big East Tournament. But […]
MAC Notebook
Mid-American Conference Notebook by Adam Trumble Tournament time is upon the Mid-American Conference as the bracket is set. On Wednesday night, Central Michigan earned the No. 1 seed, and overall regular season crown when it knocked off Northern Illinois 73-57. The Chippewa victory combined with Ohio’s win against Miami (64-56) […]
Missouri Valley Notebook
Missouri Valley Notebook by Alan Rubenstein Creighton and SIU Survive and Advance If the first three days of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament are any indication tonight’s championship game between Southern Illinois and Creighton should go down to the wire. This has been one of the most exciting tournaments in […]
WAC Notebook
WAC Notebook by Phil Dailey The Western Athletic Conference season has come and gone and with no teams this season having any hopes of an at-large bid for the NCAA tourney, this weekend’s WAC championship will place its winner in the field of 65. Since Fresno State imposed its own […]
Week of Scandals
The Week of Scandals by Phil Kasiecki Last week was not a good one for college basketball. To many, the recent negative stories are not shocking, and this writer is among those not shocked. But it doesn’t make them any less disheartening. Academic fraud at Fresno State during the Jerry […]
