Ohio Valley Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Neal Heston Only one word can describe the way the season ended for the Ohio Valley Conference: disappointment. The first team to survive through league play undefeated in over three decades didn’t even qualify for the NCAA Tournament, and the lone team to […]
Conference Notes
Big West Season Recap
Big West Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Matthew Lefebvre After a summer which brought NCAA investigation and a significant tournament change to the Big West, the conference proved it should not be overlooked as they sent two teams to post-season tournaments. Utah State (NCAA) and Pacific (NIT) finished the 2003-04 […]
Conference USA Season Recap
Conference USA 2003-04 Season Recap by Zach Van Hart In a word, last year was a classic one for C-USA. The conference achieved something that had never happened before in the history of Division I college basketball – a five-way tie for first place. Cincinnati, Charlotte, DePaul, UAB and Memphis […]
Big 12 Season Recap
Big 12 Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Zach Ewing Go back and take a look at the Big 12 Conference preseason polls. Go ahead. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Hoopville prediction, a coaches’ poll or any other media poll. Invariably, you saw Missouri’s name toward the top and Oklahoma […]
Ivy League Recap
Ivy League 2003-04 Recap by Owen Bochner What began as a season with expectations for parity and fierce competition in the Ivy League ended as one characterized by routine and predictability. Sure, things looked bright in the Ancient Eight with surprising non-conference showings by middle-of-the-pack teams such as Yale and […]
Pac-10 Season Recap
Pac-10 Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Scott Allen While Arizona garnered most of the preseason national hype, Stanford emerged as the class of the conference with one of the most remarkable regular seasons in college basketball history. The Cardinal won its first 26 games and was on the verge of […]
A-10 Season Recap
Atlantic-10 Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Jonathan Scherner As expected St. Joseph’s dominated the A-10 throughout the regular season. The Hawks rolled through the competition on their way to a perfect 16-0 conference record. National Player of the Year Jameer Nelson and Delonte West were the key for St. Joe’s […]
Sun Belt Season Recap
Sun Belt Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Zach Van Hart If any coach had to guess which team would start off the season 0-5, none would have answered defending champion Western Kentucky. What the coaches did guess was that New Orleans would finish last in its division. By mid-December, the […]
Big Sky Season Recap
Big Sky Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Nicholas Lozito From his determination and intensity on the court, it’s obvious that Eastern Washington’s Alvin Snow is not a player who can tolerate much losing – which is why it must have been so difficult for the senior swingman to put up […]
SWAC Season Recap
Southwest Athletic Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Steve Sheridan Everyone knows that preseason predictions are an inexact science. Sometimes, a team that is picked to finish high in the standings will inexplicably collapse and end up near the bottom. On other occasions, a team that nobody picked to do anything […]
