Big East Conference 2005-06 Preview by Jesse Ullmann and Zach Van Hart A new frontier of Big East basketball will begin amidst some controversy. 16 teams? Won’t there be conflicting schedules? Is it really a good idea to not end up playing all your conference foes? Can they allow more […]
Conference Notes
Big Sky Preview
Big Sky Conference 2005-06 Preview by Nick Dettmann As evidence of changing times in the Big Sky, Portland State Vikings will be guided by a new coach for the 2005-06 season, Ken Bone. Bone comes to Portland State after serving as the assistant coach at Washington since 2002. Prior to […]
West Coast Preview
West Coast Conference 2005-06 Season Preview by Brad Best In life and in basketball, some things change and some things stay the same. In the West Coast Conference (WCC), Gonzaga will once again take the conference crown, but how the rest of the teams finish is up for grabs. The […]
ACC Preview
Atlantic Coast Conference 2005-06 Preview by Michael Protos Welcome back to the world of ACC men’s basketball. When we last visited the conference, North Carolina was cutting down the nets after beating Illinois in the national championship game, and the other 10 schools were watching in envy. Now the ACC […]
Sun Belt Preview
Sun Belt Conference 2005-06 Preview by Ryan Glenn The Sun Belt conference is improving every year. The addition of Troy to the conference from the Atlantic Sun will pay off down the road. Louisiana-Lafayette is looking for their third straight NCAA tournament appearance and a conference championship. Also in the […]
Mid-Continent Preview
Mid-Continent Conference 2005-06 Preview by James V. Dowd The upcoming Mid-Continent Conference season has coaches from top to bottom excited about the prospects of a league that is as deep as it has ever been. While Oral Roberts is heavily-favored to repeat as regular-season champions, recent years have shown that […]
Mountain West Preview
Mountain West Conference 2005-06 Preview by John Eisel Here’s the bad news for Mountain West Conference fans: Most likely, your team is down this year. The good news? So is everybody else. The conference lost two of its best players ever as Utah’s Andrew Bogut and New Mexico’s Danny Granger […]
Ivy League Preview
Ivy League 2005-05 Preview by Steve Sheridan Let’s just make it easy: Penn might well win the Ivy League title this season. After 23 overall titles and five of the last seven championships, this bold prediction will not make any huge waves throughout the Ivy League community. Nonetheless, the Quakers […]
Atlantic 10 Preview
Atlantic 10 Conference 2005-06 Preview by Phil Kasiecki The 2004-05 season was decidedly different for the Atlantic 10 from the previous season. After the success of 2003-04 season, where four teams made the NCAA Tournament and two reached the Elite Eight, the conference went down several notches and saw just […]
Pac-10 Preview
Pac-10 Conference 2005-06 Preview by Scott Allen With a bunch of the talent that defined the Pac-10 for the past four years now playing in the NBA – five players taken in the first two rounds of the NBA draft, including two in the top 10 – a whole new […]
