WAC Notebook by Phil Dailey The Western Athletic Conference race is starting to heat up as it approaches the halfway point of the conference season. Leading the way for the WAC crown may be a bit of a surprise to some, but remind many of previous years. After losing its […]
Month: January 2004
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 29th Utah coach Rick Majerus enters hospital: Two days after Rick Pitino took an indefinite leave of absence due to a urological related pain, Rick Majerus, head coach of the University of Utah’s basketball team for fifteen years, was in the hospital complaining of […]
Touring the Northeast
Touring Around the Northeast by Phil Kasiecki Eagles Get Big Win, Then Bad Loss Boston College started the week with a big 66-65 overtime win over North Carolina State at home, then dropped a 65-62 decision at West Virginia on Saturday. With the win over North Carolina State, the Eagles […]
Big South Notebook
Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Made For TV Big South teams do not get a whole lot of TV time during the year, but if they consistently performed as they did this weekend on the tube, the networks may want to think about picking up a few more […]
Missouri Valley Notebook
Missouri Valley Conference Notebook by Neal Heston Tourney Watch With Creighton, Northern Iowa and Southern Illinois receiving votes in the latest Associated Press Poll, the MVC is on pace to finish its best season since sending three teams to the NCAA Tournament in 1999. Creighton (14-2, 6-2) fell behind Southern […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook by Owen Bochner Going into this season, no one expected that Yale would struggle like it did last season. With a mature, healthy roster and the collective memory of both winning the league and falling back to mediocrity, the Elis, it seemed, were primed for a repeat […]
Interview with Brian Donoher
An Interview with Wright State Assistant Brian Donoher by Bill Kintner They talk about Brian’s playing days, his legendary father, the Wright State Raiders and his new life in Dayton. It all started with a voicemail I left for Coach Donoher. A few days latter he called back and we […]
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Preparing for the Final Stretch As the calendar flips from January to February, the ACC teams prepare for the final run at an NCAA Tournament berth. The primary setting will be conference games, meaning that for every winner, there also is a loser. […]
West Coast Notebook
West Coast Conference Notebook by Mitch Schneider With a third of the West Coast Conference season already in the books, we can deduce the following: Gonzaga is good; San Diego is bad; and the rest of the league is playing for second-to-seventh place. Okay, I may be generalizing a bit. […]
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Conference Notebook by Jeremy Speer Kent State has no player who even bears the resemblance of a star. With no players among the MAC’s Top 15 scorers, the Golden Flashes are a team characterized by unimpressive statistics. Except for one: First place. With convincing victories against the MAC’s top […]
