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NCAA Crystal Ball

NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball – March 13, 2005 by Michael Protos Selection Sunday is finally upon us. Nervous bubble teams need only wait a few more hours before learning their fate. And six more conference championships are on the line, including the ACC, SEC, Big Ten and Big 12. After […]

SEC Tournament Day Two Blog

SEC Tournament – Day Two Rundown by Ryan Glenn 1:12 P.M. Est. The Alabama – Ole Miss game just started. Both teams look sloppy and can’t seem to get their fundamentals down. 1:30 P.M. The Crimson Tide has begun to hit more of their shots, but surprisingly Ole Miss is […]

NCAA Crystal Ball

NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball – March 12, 2005 by Michael Protos It’s the penultimate Crystal Ball, and I seemingly have more questions than answers. Who wants to join the NCAA Tournament? No, really. We have open spots. Somebody please step forward. Anybody? With less than 36 hours until the selection […]

St. Bonaventure’s MVP

St Bonaventure’s Man With a Mission by Bill Kintner CINCINNATI – When the St. Bonaventure basketball team came to Cincinnati for the Atlantic 10 Championship, they left their pep band in New York. They didn’t bring their dance team. They didn’t even bring their cheerleaders. They brought someone even more […]

NCAA Crystal Ball

NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball – March 10, 2005 by Michael Protos Not much has changed since Monday in terms of the major-conference teams in the field. But tournaments from the less-heralded conferences have produced a few surprise entrants, such as Oakland from the Mid-Continent and Montana from the Big Sky. […]

Atlantic 10 Tournament Notes

A Big Live Bird, A Little Dead Bird and Various Goings-On At The A-10 by Bill Kintner CINCINNATI – Tiny Saint Joseph’s University of Philadelphia is known for several things. Most of them are basketball-related: going undefeated last year in the regular season, their zany coach, Phil Martelli, and that […]

BC’s Last Big East Haul

They Had It All Along by Phil Kasiecki With Saturday night’s 78-66 win at Rutgers, Boston College gained a share of the Big East regular season championship in its final season in the conference. By virtue of their 75-70 win at Connecticut on January 5, the Eagles will have the […]

NCAA Crystal Ball

NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball – March 7, 2005 by Michael Protos The regular season is officially over, and we’re approaching full-fledge March madness. But don’t tell that to this past weekend’s underdogs, who got the party started early. This weekend featured an uncharacteristically large number of upsets among top 10 […]

Lehigh’s Joe Knight

Guard Has Himself a Knight by Phil Kasiecki WORCESTER, Mass. – You had to know the chant would come sometime. The Lehigh students who traveled up from Pennsylvania let Colgate know what the Raiders seemingly had already figured out. “You can’t stop him.” The chant was for Joe Knight, Lehigh’s […]

Ryan Gomes

Running With the Opportunity by Phil Kasiecki PROVIDENCE – He says that his coach “gave me the opportunity and I tried to take it and run with it.” That’s certainly one way of describing Ryan Gomes’ illustrious career at Providence College, which is coming to a close. Tuesday night was […]