Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Most ACC teams are in the midst of concluding the fall semester with final exams. As the kids hit the books, they play only a few games – mostly against less than challenging competition. But we’re about to start conference play, and the […]
Conference Notes
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 19th Majerus Won’t Become USC Head Coach: Rick Majerus is set to resign as USC head coach on Monday, ESPN reported on Saturday, and he will return to the network to resume working as an analyst. Majerus had accepted an offer earlier in the […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Saturday, December 18th The Walking Wounded: As the season begins to approach conference play, teams are starting to suffer a variety of injuries. It is cliche, but it is often the teams that can withstand these injuries, or avoid them all together, that end up being […]
Part 2
Atlantic 10 Conference Preview – Part Two by Nate Beardsley In Part One of the A-10 Preview, we handed out Preseason Hardware, and projected the East Division. Below, in Part Two, we’ll finish up by previewing the West Division. West Division 1. George Washington Colonials 18-12 (11-5, A-10), 2nd in […]
Big West Conference Preview
Big West Conference Preview by Josh Diggs The Big West Conference is by no means as good as the SEC, ACC or Pac-10 conferences, but they are getting better. Utah State hovered around the nation’s top 25 polls for several weeks and Pacific made a splash last March by crashing […]
Sun Belt Preview
Sun Belt Conference Season Preview by Zach Van Hart The entire Sun Belt Conference rejoiced during the 2003-04 season as Western Kentucky, who had dominated during the first few seasons of the millennium, finally returned back to earth. With the fall of the Hilltoppers to a fifth-place finish and quarterfinal […]
Mountain West Conference Preview
Mountain West Conference Preview by John Eisel When the results came out from the coaches and media preseason poll and the top three teams all have new coaches this season, things had to be taken with a grain of salt. UNLV, Utah and reigning regular season champion Air Force all […]
Mid-American Preview
Mid-American Conference 2004-05 Preview by Ryan Lyle Commings The Mid-American Conference is most certainly the Mac of the mid-major conferences around the country. There is a lot of little known talent in this league and there will be a lot of interesting surprises from the conference throughout the year. The […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 16th Wallace Hospitalized: Hawaii head coach Riley Wallace was hospitalized due to heart surgery yesterday. Wallace, in his 18th season at the helm of the Warriors, underwent angioplasty surgery, where a stint was inserted into his right coronary artery to improve blood flow. He […]
Part 1
Atlantic 10 Conference Preview – Part One by Nate Beardsley In order to prepare yourself for the 2004-05 Atlantic 10 men’s basketball season, you’re going to need to forget everything that has happened in the past five years. Forget the dominance of Xavier, Dayton and Saint Joseph’s. That era is […]
