Big West Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Matthew Lefebvre After a summer which brought NCAA investigation and a significant tournament change to the Big West, the conference proved it should not be overlooked as they sent two teams to post-season tournaments. Utah State (NCAA) and Pacific (NIT) finished the 2003-04 […]
Month: September 2004
Ohio Valley Season Recap
Ohio Valley Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Neal Heston Only one word can describe the way the season ended for the Ohio Valley Conference: disappointment. The first team to survive through league play undefeated in over three decades didn’t even qualify for the NCAA Tournament, and the lone team to […]
America East Season Recap
America East Conference 2003-04 Recap by Phil Kasiecki The 2003-04 season in America East was full of good stories despite the end result looking a lot like the preseason projections. Most figured it would be a three-team race between Boston University, Northeastern and Vermont, and those three teams comprised the […]
MEAC Season Recap
Mideastern Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Michael Protos According to the RPI rankings, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference finished dead last of the 31 Division I conferences. The weakest conference had 10 of its 11 members finish in the bottom 100 of the RPI rankings. Only South Carolina State cracked the […]
Todd Lickliter Interview
An Interview with Butler’s Todd Lickliter by Bill “CigarBoy” Kintner Butler Coach Todd Lickliter sits down right before practice to discuss his team. He talks about how he recruits, the Butler Way, the status of college basketball and he even tells a story about a Butler Hall of Fame basketball […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Friday, September 24th Third Player Charged: The horror show that is the La Salle basketball program got a little scarier yesterday, when forward Dzaflo Larkai was charged with rape – the third La Salle player to be charged. Larkai, who was dismissed from the team and […]
Pac-10 Season Recap
Pac-10 Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Scott Allen While Arizona garnered most of the preseason national hype, Stanford emerged as the class of the conference with one of the most remarkable regular seasons in college basketball history. The Cardinal won its first 26 games and was on the verge of […]
Ivy League Recap
Ivy League 2003-04 Recap by Owen Bochner What began as a season with expectations for parity and fierce competition in the Ivy League ended as one characterized by routine and predictability. Sure, things looked bright in the Ancient Eight with surprising non-conference showings by middle-of-the-pack teams such as Yale and […]
Big 12 Season Recap
Big 12 Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Zach Ewing Go back and take a look at the Big 12 Conference preseason polls. Go ahead. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Hoopville prediction, a coaches’ poll or any other media poll. Invariably, you saw Missouri’s name toward the top and Oklahoma […]
SWAC Season Recap
Southwest Athletic Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Steve Sheridan Everyone knows that preseason predictions are an inexact science. Sometimes, a team that is picked to finish high in the standings will inexplicably collapse and end up near the bottom. On other occasions, a team that nobody picked to do anything […]
