Mid-Continent Conference Notebook by Cory J. Danner A busy first week in the Mid-Con produced few surprises in the way of upsets, but showed the conference can be competitive with top tier teams. Teams like Minnesota, Oklahoma and Marquette all were tested by Mid-Con teams. It will take a week […]
Month: November 2003
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Monday, November 24th Moving On: The Baylor Bears started their season Saturday night after a painful offseason that included the death of teammate Patrick Dennehy and the impending trial of teammate Carlton Dotson. The Bears remembered Dennehy with black stripes on their uniforms. Dennehy would have […]
Free Charlie Villanueva
Free Charlie! by Michael Ermitage When I first heard of Charlie Villanueva, I didn’t like him. It was during the whole Roy Williams to UNC, Bill Self to Kansas, and Tom Crean to nowhere dominoes this past off-season. I think I was perusing a message board (most likely illiniboard – […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Friday, November 21st Nova Romps: In last night’s “Midnight Madness” opener for Temple and Villanova – timed so that Villanova can hit the road to the west coast for games on the way to the Maui Classic – Both Randy Foye and Allan Ray notched 20 […]
Horizon League Notebook
Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann The season has officially begun. Thank goodness! It has been all too long since the Horizon League season ended with Butler falling to Oklahoma in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament. Over the weekend, league favorite Illinois-Chicago took part in the annual Dell […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, November 20th Weber lays down the law: First-year Illinois coach Bruce Weber has decided to bench three of his players from the start of the season for violating undetermined team rules. Junior guard Luther Head and freshman forward Aaron Spears will miss the team’s first […]
Rhode Island Ready for Season
Rams Ready to Face Challenges by Phil Kasiecki The 2003-04 season will be the third season under Jim Baron at Rhode Island, and it’s one that many in South Kingston are looking forward to. Fresh off the success of last season, when the Rams opened the new Thomas M. Ryan […]
Tale of the Tutor
Roddy’s Rant: The Tale of the Tutor by Chris Roddy “That isn’t how you spell caveat, Carl” I said. I flung my notebook off of the desk with a horrible melodramatic high school intensity; Luke Perry would’ve been proud of me for perfecting a moodiness that took him until age […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 19th One Year Anniversary: Today marks the one-year anniversary of our daily Morning Dish feature. 340 dispatches (there were some slow news days this offseason and a few holidays), all starting November 19th, 2002. News that day included North Carolina’s new freshmen Rashad McCants, […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 18th Huskies Bark Louder Than Bulldogs: But not by much. UConn, No. 1 in the Hoopville Top 25, had to overcome a 31-28 halftime deficit, but defeated in-state rival Yale, 70-60 in Round 1 of the Preseason NIT. Preseason All-America Emeka Okafor led Connecticut […]
