America East Profile: Stony Brook’s D.J. Munir by Phil Kasiecki D.J. Munir learned his lesson. Class dismissed. Well, not exactly. After an excellent sophomore season that saw him lead the America East Conference in assists and finish second in scoring, Munir’s star was on the rise. Unfortunately, his Stony Brook […]
Month: March 2003
New Hampshire’s Shejdie Childs
America East Profile: New Hampshire’s Shejdie Childs by Phil Kasiecki Shejdie Childs has quickly learned one basic fact of life for someone who goes away to college. “You can’t depend on your family and other people to help you with things,” the Philadelphia native says, before adding that he’s enjoyed […]
Northeastern’s Jose Juan Barea
America East Profile: Northeastern’s Jose Juan Barea by Phil Kasiecki Art Alvarez, the colorful head coach of national high school power Miami Christian, tried to tell the big-time schools in Florida about Jose Juan Barea, but they wouldn’t listen. Now, a school up in Boston is glad those schools passed […]
Vermont’s Grant Anderson
America East Profile: Vermont’s Grant Anderson by Phil Kasiecki Looking at Grant Anderson, one might not immediately get the image of a key Division I basketball player. He has a big body, standing 6’7″ and weighing in at 230 pounds, but on a team that has a stud on the […]
Down with “Championship Week”
Few true champs in Championship Week by Michael Ermitage ESPN is a marketing genius. Einsteins of their craft. The network has taken every potential angle in college basketball and turned it into an event. You have the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, the Bracket Buster, Rivalry Week, Judgment Week (Judgment Week?), the […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 7th, 2003 by Jon Gonzalez Well the latest twist is that the Atlantic 10 may discuss dumping St. Bonaventure because the program embarrassed the league by refusing to play its final two games of the season. A-10 school presidents were livid with the Bonnies’ […]
Pac-10 Notebook
Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Conference Tournament Preview Arizona is amazing, California is cool and collect, Stanford is that same old sultry jazz singer and everyone else is, well, okay. After Arizona proved that no matter how many upstart Bay Area teams come to town, being number one means you […]
Sun Belt Notebook
Sun Belt Notebook by Andria Wenzel The Sun Belt Conference wrapped things up on Wednesday when the top seeds of the East Division and West Division battled it out in what could be a preview of the tournament championship on Tuesday. No. 1 Western Kentucky (21-8, 12-2) in the East […]
Southern Conference First Round
Southern Conference First Round by Michael Ermitage No. 4N Western Carolina vs. No. 5S Georgia Southern The 2003 Mountain Dew Southern Conference Basketball Championships kicked off with Georgia Southern holding off Western Carolina, 89-81. Julius Jenkins scored a team-high 20 points Wednesday to lead Georgia Southern in the first round. […]
Horizon First Round
Horizon League First Round by Brian Seymour No. 4 Loyola-Chicago vs. No. 9 Cleveland State Loyola (15-15) easily handled Cleveland State 69-57 at home, moving into a quarterfinal contest against Detroit. David Bailey’s 23 points and seven assists led the Ramblers, who were able to blow open a close game […]
