The Morning Dish – Friday, March 4th Brown and Williams Lead Illini to Rout on Senior Night: On a night when they honored their seniors, the Illini were led by juniors Dee Brown and Deron Williams for Illinois’ 29th straight victory. Brown scored 27, and Williams finished with finished with […]
Conference Notes
America East Tournament Preview
America East Tournament Preview by Phil Kasiecki BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – After three years in Boston, the America East Tournament moves to Binghamton this season. Binghamton put in a strong bid to host last year’s tournament with the opening of its new on-campus Events Center, but Boston University won out to […]
Big South Semifinals Recap
Big South Tournament – Semifinals by Jeremy Dunlap (Note: All tournament games are played at the home court of the higher seeded team.) (1) Winthrop 78, (4) Birmingham-Southern 64 Winthrop extended its winning streak to seventeen games and will appear in its fifth Big South championship game of the last […]
SEC Notebook
SEC Notebook by Ryan Glenn Tournament Brackets Shaping Up With one game left for each team in the regular season, the SEC Tournament field is all but set. The only seed that is up for grabs is the number one spot in the West. If Alabama wins this weekend, they […]
America East Notebook
America East Notebook by Phil Kasiecki It’s finally settled, and in quite a fashion Although Vermont clinched the top seed last Monday and the regular season title outright on Thursday, there was plenty of drama on the last day as several seeding battles came right down to the wire. Northeastern […]
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Dissecting Yellow Jackets After a run to the Final Four in last season’s NCAA Tournament, Georgia Tech entered this season with hopes of winning a national championship. But at 16-9 and 7-7 in the ACC, the team’s critics would have fans believe that […]
Big South Quarterfinals Recap
Big South Quarterfinal Recaps by Jeremy Dunlap (Note: All tournament games are played at the home court of the higher seeded team.) (1) Winthrop 74, (8) Coastal Carolina 62 It took a while, but Winthrop eventually took control of their match-up against Coastal Carolina, and will advance to the conference […]
SoCon Tournament Preview
Southern Conference Tournament Preview by Jonathan Gonzalez The first stop to March Mania. That is the tagline for the 84th edition of the Kyocera Southern Conference Basketball Championship, which kicks off today at noon in Chattanooga, Tenn. For Davidson, it is a stop that the Wildcats hope is indeed the […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, March 2nd St. Joe’s President Speaks Out: St. Joseph’s president Timothy Lannon commended Temple coach John Chaney for suspending himself for the Atlantic 10 tournament but expressed disapproval about the lack of action by Temple and A-10 officials. Chaney extended a regular-season ending three-game suspension […]
Patriot Notebook
Patriot League Notebook by Steve Sheridan It was an exciting and interesting final weekend for the eight teams of the Patriot League. Very appropriately, the final game of the Patriot League season came down to a buzzer-beating three-pointer by Bucknell’s Chris Niesz – the lone Bison senior on Senior Night […]
