SEC Notebook by Matt Jones This past Sunday was an absolute great day to be a sports fan. Everywhere you turned, there was compelling action that left me absolutely glued to my seat. In NASCAR, the Daytona 500 produced a compelling race, complete with big crashes and high drama, resulting […]
Conference Notes
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Conference Notebook by Alan Rubenstein Game of the Week: Illinois 76 Michigan State 51 Illinois took a step forward in their quest for a third Big Ten title in four seasons. A dominant 76-51 victory over Michigan State placed the Illini into a second place tie with the […]
Patriot League Notebook
Patriot League Notebook by Steve Sheridan As the season begins to wind down, the teams are shuffling for position for the upcoming Patriot League Tournament. In the past two weeks, we have seen Lafayette finally lose a game, Bucknell really turn on the jets, and some other teams start to […]
Pac-10 Notebook
Pac-10 Conference Notebook by Scott Allen Several teams in the Pac-10 worked overtime last weekend making for two days worth of exciting basketball. The results, however, did little to clear up the conference picture with the Pac-10 tournament on the horizon and Selection Sunday shortly thereafter. Here’s a look back […]
Horizon League Notebook
Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann Within one game of their first regular season league championship in school history, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee traveled to Youngstown State to play the Penguins. UWM head coach Bruce Pearl knew that YSU is no push over team and he was right. The Penguins […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 19th The Upsets There were a few too many upsets yesterday, six to be exact. The ACC had some problems, as did Conference USA (if you were to count Louisville’s recent loss). Here is the breakdown on each excruciating, or joyous occasion, depending on […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 18th Marquette assistant coach gets lung transplants: Marquette special assistant Trey Shwab, who was suffering from an incurable lung disease, received a life-saving double lung implant Tuesday. Schwab underwent the seven-hour procedure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital. He is expected to make a […]
Horizon League Notebook
Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann Even though the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a two-game lead in the league standings heading into play this week, the race for the bye into the semi’s is heating up. The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Wright State are tied at 9-3 in the […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Breakthrough of the week Last week it was East Carolina winning on the road. This week it was USF winning – period. The last team with no conference wins finally cracked the ‘W’ column with a 68-60 against Southern Miss Saturday. Even without […]
Missouri Valley Notebook
Missouri Valley Conference Notebook by Neal Heston Takin’ care of business – again Two weeks still remain in the regular season, and Southern Illinois already has at least a share of the Missouri Valley Conference title wrapped up. Just one more victory or a loss by Creighton will give SIU […]