Salukis come to Milwaukee by Nick Dettmann Milwaukee – Southern Illinois first year head coach Matt Painter feels that the barn-burner, 66-64 buzzer beater, game against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee last season in Carbondale helped get the Saluki’s into the post-season last season. In the second rendition of UWM and […]
Month: November 2003
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 30th Champions: The championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout figured to be a good game, and it didn’t disappoint. Purdue held the Blue Devils to 38% shooting and shot 49% en route to a 78-68 upset of No. 2 Duke to win the […]
MassMutual Tipoff Classic
The Best Matchup in Springfield by Phil Kasiecki Springfield, Mass. – The public address announcer said the game will be remembered among the best matchups in the history of the MassMutual Classic, formerly the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic. That is high praise; over the years, it has featured many […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Saturday, November 29th Florida wins Tipoff: No. 9 Florida nailed a layup with 7 seconds left to defeat No. 3 Arizona 78-77 in the Tipoff Classic last night from Springfield, Massachusetts. Senior Gator center Bonell Colas scored his only points of the game by laying up […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing Kansas gets 2003-04’s first big win While the nation’s top ten teams boosted their records with wins over such schools as Sacred Heart, Northern Arizona and Brown, the No. 5 Kansas Jayhawks and No. 3 Michigan State Spartans squared off in Lawrence, Kan., […]
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Conference Notebook by Jeremy Speer Cardinals pull another upset Ball State continued its penchant for pulling off early season upsets, opening the 2003-2004 season in style with a 75-63 home defeat of Xavier. Two seasons ago, the Cardinals went to the Maui Invitational as underdogs, and defeated Kansas and […]
Horizon League Notebook
Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann In the first full week of action, the Horizon League went 10-6, including a match-up with the second ranked team in the nation Duke. Illinois-Chicago, who already came into the weekend having played a few games courtesy of the BCA Classic, opened a home-and-home […]
War on the Shore
2003 War on the Shore by Phil Kasiecki Bob Jacobs, the master architect of the Slam Dunk to the Beach Tournament, put together an improved War on the Shore Tournament this weekend in Milford, Delaware. The games were better-played than last year, and the talent level was what one would […]
Big South Conference Notebook
Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap No Surprises Here Early season games in the Big South, especially the match-ups in the first week, typically come in two forms: The impossible games against the heavyweight contenders from the major conferences and the easy wins against non-Division I schools. Granted, there […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Notebook by Alan Rubenstein Without further ado, on to the Big Ten news of the week: Illinois – Champaign County State’s Attorney John Piland announced that three Illini players will not be prosecuted for their roles in a November 2nd break-in off campus. Piland would not release the […]
