The Morning Dish – Monday, April 7th, 2003 by Phil Kasiecki Here we are, awaiting the national championship game. When the clock strikes midnight in mid-October, this is the night every team in America starts shooting for. In Kansas and Syracuse, we have contrasts and we have similarities. The contrasts […]
Month: April 2003
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Sunday, April 6th, 2003 by Phil Kasiecki The Final Four is proving to be a study in contrasts as two teams now remain. With that in mind, let’s look at Saturday’s games. In what figured to be a close high-scoring game, Kansas dominated Marquette, breaking it […]
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The Morning Dish – Saturday, April 5th, 2003 by Phil Kasiecki The weekend we have all been waiting for since practice began in mid-October has arrived. It’s time for the action to commence in the Final Four, and on Saturday evening, it will happen. Here is a brief look at […]
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The Morning Dish – Friday, April 4th, 2003 by Jon Gonzalez Revenge can be so sweet, even when it’s 18 years late. St. John’s used a superb effort from guard Marcus Hatten to upend Georgetown 70-67 Thursday night in the NIT final. The Red Storm finally gets some payback for […]
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The Morning Dish – Thursday, April 3rd, 2003 by Jon Gonzalez A day after Matt Doherty was fired… errr, resigned from his post as UNC head basketball coach, one thing has become abundantly clear: the brass running the athletic program at UNC knows a whole lot more than anyone on […]
Final Four
Finally, We’re Down to Four by Bill Thayer While we haven’t had a ton of huge moments or that many memorable upsets, to me this year’s Tournament has been all about the tight games. It seems that almost every game came down to the final moments, with a number of […]
A March of Madness
A Can’t Miss March of Madness by Phil Kasiecki March Madness has descended upon America once again, and if you haven’t been watching, you’ve missed out on some great action. And this isn’t just about the NCAA Tournament, though that is unquestionably the focus. The games have been exciting, we’ve […]
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The Morning Dish – Wednesday, April 2nd, 2003 by Michael Ermitage The top college basketball news story from Tuesday did not come from the NIT semifinals or the women’s NCAA tournament, although we’ll get to that later, but from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In a somewhat expected move, Matt Doherty […]
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The Morning Dish – Tuesday, April 1, 2003 by Adam Shandler The men’s basketball season isn’t even over yet, but so starts the carousel of possible coaching changes. Pittsburgh’s Ben Howland, UCLA’s first interviewee and purportedly the top candidate for the Bruin head coaching job, met with officials from the […]