Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing It was finals week in universities across the country, meaning a dull week for students and college basketball fans. Despite the lack of games throughout the week, Saturday and Sunday gave us some great stories. Big 12 comes up a little short The […]
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Big 12 Preview
Big 12 Conference Preview by Zach Ewing With the college semester halfway over, the wait is also over. College basketball season, brought on by Midnight Madness celebrations across the country, is underway. And perhaps nowhere in the country is it more anticipated than in the Midwest where the talent, unlike […]
Big 12 Offseason News
Big 12 Conference Offseason News Recap by Zach Ewing The air is starting to get cooler, the leaves are turning yellow and college basketball season is just around the corner. That doesn’t mean, however, that nothing happened in the Big 12 Conference since Oklahoma State was eliminated in last spring’s […]
Southland Recap
Southland Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Zach Ewing After a regular season that finished with three teams tied atop the standings and another just a game behind, it came as no surprise that parity ruled the Southland Conference Tournament. The top four teams all survived the first day of quarterfinals, […]
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 […]
NIT Semifinals Recap
NIT Semifinal Recaps by Zach Ewing Rutgers 84, Iowa State 81, OT This was a good, old-fashioned New York City shoot-out. Quincy Douby of Rutgers and Iowa State’s Curtis Stinson, both freshmen who hail from inner city New York, both played terrific games. When Stinson fouled out with the game […]
STL Elite Eight Preview
Elite Eight Preview – St. Louis Region by Zach Ewing (3) Georgia Tech vs. (4) Kansas This Elite Eight game pits two teams that had relatively easy roads to the Regional Final. Georgia Tech, with No. 2 seed Gonzaga eliminated in the second round, beat No. 14 Northern Iowa, No. […]
STL Elite Eight Recap
Elite Eight Recap – St. Louis Region by Zach Ewing ((3) Georgia Tech 78, (4) Kansas 71, OT In only the second overtime game of the entire tournament, Georgia Tech did what it’s been doing all tournament long: surviving. The Yellow Jackets’ leading scorer, B.J. Elder, was rendered almost completely […]
Big 12 Finals Recap
Big 12 Finals Recap Recap by Zach Ewing No. 1 Oklahoma State 65, No. 2 Texas 49 It’s often said that defense wins championships, and it’s pretty obvious that that was the case in this game. The Cowboys started out hot and took a 12-point lead into the locker room, […]
Big 12 Semifinals Recap
Big 12 Semifinals Recap Recap by Zach Ewing No. 1 Oklahoma State 82, No. 5 Texas Tech 77 The coaching match-up of Eddie Sutton and Bob Knight didn’t disappoint. Knight’s Red Raiders came out with a slashing, attacking, screening offense, scored the game’s first seven points, and held on for […]
