She’s Got Game by Tracy Granzyk You Got To Have Heart As Harry Carey used to say, “HOLY COW!” The Conference Tournament results are going down in the record books, and they are proving rankings account for little if you leave your heart in the locker room. No. 2 Stanford, […]
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Mountain West Tournament Preview
Mountain West Tournament Preview Cowboys capture regular season title Wyoming won the regular season title with 57-56 win over second place Utah Saturday March 1st. The Cowboys win gave them the league’s first outright regular season champ in the conference’s three-year history. This also marks the first time a team […]
Big 12 Tournament Preview
Big 12 Tournament Preview This much is clear: Six teams (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Missouri) are marching on. The other six teams (Nebraska, Kansas State, Colorado, Baylor, Iowa State, Texas A&M) are relegated to spoiler status. Six in. Six out. That type of competitive symmetry might […]
WAC Notebook
WAC Notebook NCAA Tourney Favorites Hawaii defeated Fresno State on Saturday night, 82-79, to finish in a tie with Tulsa at 15-3 for the WAC’s regular season crown. It’s the second-ever WAC title for the Rainbow Warriors who also tied for the Pacific Division title in 1996-97. It’s Tulsa’s third […]
Conference Tournaments
Start the Madness by Tracy Granzyk Start the Madness Tournament time always triggers two things in my mind. The first is that spring is around the corner, with summer soon to follow. You would think that living in the mountains of Colorado, I would be holding out for one more […]
Sun Belt Notebook
Sun Belt Championship Preview Hilltoppers, Hilltoppers, Hilltoppers. Western Kentucky has already locked up the number one seed in the SBC East Division. WKU is on a 15-game winning streak and has climbed back into the Top 25 after spending the first few weeks of the season in the polls before […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Championship Preview Here we sit, a little more than a week before the Mountain West Tournament and it looks like a two-team race. Wyoming and Utah are by far the class of the conference. Utah sits atop the league with a 9-2 record following a 66-65 victory over […]
Roundup
Women’s Hoops Roundup by Tracy Granzyk Money Talks One of the biggest challenges in women’s NCAA hoops is how to turn a profit. Of immediate significance is having enough ticket-buying fans to move the first round of post season play to neutral, big-city sites, similar to the men’s March Madness […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Notebook The Big Dozen With Selection Sunday just under 3 weeks away, it is clear that the Big 12 will be well represented in the Field of 65, as 5 members (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech) figure to be amongst those invited to the Big […]
Women’s Hoops Update
She’s Got Game by Tracy Granzyk They’ve Definitely Got Game Having been an active participant in women’s basketball for longer than I’m willing to admit, I have been one of the game’s biggest critics. I used to cringe when my cohorts would put up nationally televised air balls that looked […]
