Month: December 2003

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Friday, December 26th Knight apologizes: Bob Knight formally apologized for remarks he made during a taped interview earlier this week. Knight, the head coach of Texas Tech, went off on a profanity-laced tirade in response to a question asked by ESPN reporter Fran Fraschilla. Fraschilla inquired […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 25th No Morning Dish today, except for those of you polishing off Christmas cookies, or whatever Santa left on his plate. We would like to thank each of our readers for their loyalty and encouragement this season, and we wish all of you a […]

New Head Coach Recruiting

Getting it Done on the Recruiting Trail by Phil Kasiecki When a new head coach takes over a program – often with an entirely new staff – recruiting can suffer. Players being recruited may not know what to make of the new coach and if he’s significantly different from the […]

Portland vs Oregon

Ducks looking for Redemption and Revenge by Jed Tai Two years ago, the Oregon Ducks came up to the University of Portland in desperate need of a win. Unfortunately, they went away empty-handed and it was such a bad loss that they’ve never forgotten it. So when they came up […]

SEC Notebook

SEC Notebook by Matt Jones Before I begin my review of a surprisingly riveting week of SEC basketball, I wanted to take the opportunity to salute one of the best early season games that we have seen in a number of years. I spent most of Saturday afternoon seeing “In […]

Big 12 Notebook

Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing Happy Holidays to all and before we begin, a non-Big 12 note: the 119-114 victory for Wake Forest over North Carolina in three overtimes Saturday was the best game I’ve ever seen. It had a little bit of everything and, when combined with […]

Horizon League Notebook

Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann In a very wild week for the Horizon League, none could be more proud of Detroit head coach Perry Watson as he picked up his 200th career win on Monday night. The Titans defeated Western Illinois 98-61 in front of 2,285 fans at Calihan […]

Pac-10 Notebook

Pac-10 Conference Notebook by Scott Allen From Serbia With Love Arizona, which lost forward Isaiah Fox to a knee injury earlier this year, bolstered its front-line with the addition of Serbian forward Ivan Radenovic, who joins the team after playing two seasons for a youth team in Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro. The […]

America East Notebook

America East Notebook by Adam Reich Welcome Home Northeastern lost to the Florida Gators Monday night in what was a homecoming for several NU players. The Huskies have six Florida natives: Javorie Wilson (Miami, FL/Odessa JC), Marcus Barnes (Miami, FL/University of Miami), Sylbrin Robinson (Miami, FL/Florida International/Odessa JC), Cornellius Wright […]

Tuesday Morning Point Guard

Tuesday Morning Point Guard by Dean Austin Ah the wonders of TiVo. While the creeping crud visited last week and lingered this weekend I was able to queue up a number of important match ups. Took me a while to get through all of it, but finally caught up on […]