C-USA Championship Preview Looks like March Madness began a little early for Conference USA. Less than one week after Marquette and Cincinnati faced off in one of the most exciting games of the season (a game and result which was predicted here on Hoopville, by the way, but more on […]
Author: Brian Seymour
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Notebook With the remainder of the MAC season rendered more or less anticlimatic thanks to Kent’s complete and utter domination, our thoughts turn to the conference tournament, which should be much more exciting. Here then are five things to watch for during the remainder of the season: 1. Can […]
Horizon Notebook
Horizon League Notebook Five things to watch before the Horizon League tournament: 1. Can Butler win the rest of its remaining conference games? Sadly enough, that’s probably what it would take for the Bulldogs to get an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament if they stumble in the conference tournament. […]
C-USA Notebook
C-USA Notebook What did we learn from Marquette’s through 74-60 pounding of Cincinnati on Feb. 2? 1. Cincinnati is a very good team and will, as I said before the season started, scare the bejeezus out of Duke or Maryland or Kansas, et al before the NCAA Tournament is over. […]
Horizon Notebook
Horizon Notebook OK, it’s time for some midseason awards. Without further ado… Player of the Year: Before the conference season started, Butler’s Thomas Jackson looked like a stone cold lock to win player of the year honors, but no one has been as impressive or meant as much to his […]
C-USA Notebook
C-USA Notebook OK, it’s time for some midseason awards. Without further ado… Player of the Year: Steve Logan of Cincinnati. He’s been the sparkplug behind one of the biggest surprises of the season — the Bearcats’ nation-best 19-game winning streak. I said before the season started that he could be […]
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Notebook Well, so much for those worries about Kent State. What’s going on with Central Michigan is another story altogether. The two defending division champions in the Mid-American Conference are heading into decidedly different directions after stumbling at times in non-conference action. The Golden Flashes eradicated a lot of […]
Horizon Notebook
Horizon Notebook Well, so much for the so-called “experts”. The first Horizon League contests created a lot of question marks for so early in the season. Not only did 19th-ranked (though not for long) Butler get upended – at home, no less – by Wright State, but Detroit Mercy lost […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook The Men In Black are back. No, not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, the Cincinnati Bearcats. Well, actually they never left, but judging by the preseason media coverage by some organizations (not Hoopville, of course), you’d have thought the Bearcats wouldn’t even be a factor in […]
Battle of the Bluegrass
Notes from the Battle of the Bluegrass by Brian Seymour I suppose I should come clean right off the bat and admit I am not a Rick Pitino fan. It flies in the face of journalistic objectivity for me to admit this, but I suppose if you faithful Hoopville readers […]
