Horizon League 2006-07 Preview by Nils Hoeger-Lerdal The 2006-07 Horizon League season will be unpredictable and unfamiliar. For each of the past seven seasons, Butler or Wisconsin-Milwaukee have claimed the conference title. This year should be different because both teams lost a lot of talent, while the traditional chasers return […]
Conference Notes
West Coast Preview
West Coast Conference 2006-07 Preview by Gregg Lavoie Some things just never change on the west coast. Like the sun’s daily setting over the Pacific and the Oakland A’s inevitable second-half hot streak, so too is the story in college basketball’s West Coast Conference (WCC). Some claim that repetition is […]
Northeast Preview
Northeast Conference 2006-07 Preview by Zach Smart To the outside world, the Northeast Conference is the laughing-stock conference of college basketball. It’s a safe haven for standout high school players that received few to no Division I offers their senior year. It’s the weakest piece of the puzzle, the compartment […]
Missouri Valley Preview
Missouri Valley Conference 2006-07 Preview by Neal Heston As if the upper half of the Missouri Valley Conference weren’t crowded enough. This season, two more teams, the Drake Bulldogs and Evansville Aces, will compete with the perennial contenders. Both squads return a large part of their talented 2005-06 rosters, which […]
SEC Preview
SEC 2006-07 Preview by Ryan Glenn The SEC enters this season with high expectations coming off of a 13-5 record in the NCAA Tournament including the National Champion Florida and Final Four team LSU. South Carolina also came away with their second straight NIT title, which can be seen as […]
Mid-Continent Preview
Mid-Continent Conference 2006-07 Preview by Kevin Hansen As national exposure for mid-major conferences increases, Mid-Continent Conference coaches look forward to showing off their teams’ talent. Oral Roberts, IUPUI and Missouri-Kansas City should battle atop the conference standings. With the explosive tandem of Caleb Green and Ken Tutt, Oral Roberts will […]
ACC Preview
Atlantic Coast Conference 2006-07 Preview by Michael Protos Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the heart of college basketball. When we last checked in with the ACC, every team had lost in the NCAA Tournament by the end of the Sweet 16. You can take it to the bank that […]
America East Preview
America East 2006-07 Preview by Phil Kasiecki The 2005-06 season wasn’t the best for America East by a long shot, but it almost had a historic close during the NCAA Tournament. In their first-ever trip to the Big Dance, Albany had Connecticut on the ropes and looked like they could […]
Ohio Valley Preview
Ohio Valley Conference 2006-07 Preview by Josh Bagriansky 2005-2006 saw a changing of the guard in the Ohio Valley Conference during the regular season. Tennessee Tech took the regular season crown for the first time in four seasons, but at the conclusion of the OVC tournament, the old guard once […]
Conference USA Preview
Conference USA 2006-07 Preview by Phil Kasiecki Conference USA prognosticators will generally agree on a couple of things entering the 2006-07 season, its second since the major changeover in membership. One is that Memphis is the pick to win. The other is that Morris Almond’s return to Rice after testing […]
