The Morning Dish – Saturday, March 2nd, 2002 by Andrew Flynn Nolan Richardson’s Out The University of Arkansas has decided to buy out head coach Nolan Richardson’s contract effective immediately, due to racially-based comments made by Richardson after last weekend’s Kentucky game. The buyout, half of Richardson’s six-year contract, tallies […]
Columns
Virginia Tops Duke
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 1st, 2002 by Andrew Flynn Welcome to the first of many Morning Dishes! This column will keep you informed of what happened last night, what’s happening today, and maybe even a heads-up on tomorrow as well. We’ll be here all through Championship Week, as […]
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 […]
Notes on Army-Navy
The Safest (If Not Silliest) Game of the Week by Adam Shandler My friends and I had a pleasant drive up the Palisades Parkway to West Point. We were cruising – no flying – until we got to the first checkpoint. We encountered our first stoppage. “DoD stickered cars to […]
RPI? R.I.P.
RPI? More like R.I.P. by Bill Thayer The RPI. Three letters that can make any college basketball fan cringe. Three letters we are going to hear over and over again as March approaches. Three letters that can make or break a team’s chances of dancing. Three letters that should no […]
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 […]
‘Zags to Riches
Zags to Riches by Brian Strong Say it loud and pronounce it right. Gone-ZAG-uh is letting the country know they’re a Top Dog. The power structure on the West Coast has officially extended north. UCLA, USC, and Stanford have long been the sturdy pillars of a strong left coast hoops […]
Slamming Dunking
Slamming Dunking by Dan Hauptman The second-most overrated and useless aspect of college basketball is the slam dunk. It really serves no purpose other than to show off a player’s athleticism in front of fans who hoot and holler as if their team just won the national championship. Think about […]
Basketball Factories
Basketball Factories by Michael Ermitage It was Wednesday night and I was crying in my beer. My alma mater had suffered yet another embarrassing defeat. And I asked myself why? How? What makes a once-proud program turn into the whipping boys of the conference, the punch line to every message […]
She’s Got Game
She’s Got Game by Tracy Granzyk She’s Got Game To give our Hoopville Fans a true representation of college hoops, it’s only fair to include coverage of the women’s game. With attendance numbers growing across the nation, competition levels rising consistently and the tournament drawing near, interest in women’s NCAA […]
