Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Breakthrough of the week While this score line – East Carolina 59, USF 57 – is not going to make it anywhere on SportsCenter, it was a historic win for the Pirates. After two and a half years in C-USA, East Carolina has […]
Conference Notes
Missouri Valley Notebook
Missouri Valley Conference Notebook by Neal Heston Salukis rolling, Bluejays falling Southern Illinois just keeps on rolling, accomplishing the unthinkable at Creighton’s Qwest Center on Saturday. The Salukis halted the nation’s third-longest home-winning streak at 28 while improving their perfect MVC record to 12-0. The game went back-and-forth with several […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – February 10th Last night belonged to the Big East, with two dynamite upsets: Thomas The Tank Engine: Last night CT did not stand for the postal code for Connecticut. Far from it. CT was Chris Thomas, who hit for 22 of his 31 points in the […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman Who’s Got Balance? I happened to watch some of the Tulsa-UTEP game on Saturday. It wasn’t because I was thinking of crossing over to the dark side, but it was to check out the most improved team in the country: UTEP. While watching the […]
Big South Notebook
Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap More TV Drama Two weeks after a pair of Big South regionally telecasted games went to the wire, the Charleston Southern/High Point game played on Fri., Feb. 6, was also on the tube and turned out to be more thrilling than probably any […]
Metro Atlantic Notebook
Metro Atlantic Conference Notebook by Jesse Ullmann Technical Error MAAC officials had a rough start to the “month of love”. They issued technical fouls to head coaches Joe Mihalich, Bobby Gonzalez, Jeff Ruland, Tim O’Toole, Mike MacDonald and Scott Hicks this past week during games. Bracketology If you build it […]
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Some Early Madness Even though the March Madness of the NCAA Tournament remains a little more than a month away, college basketball offered some of the most exciting games of the season in the past few days. The top two teams in the […]
MEAC Notebook
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Coppin State and South Carolina State have been the pride of the conference. Despite tough schedules, and even tougher losses to the likes of Florida State, South Carolina, Cincinnati, Missouri, Michigan State and Xavier, the two teams have built a strong lead in […]
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Conference Notebook by Jeremy Speer As the MAC season begins to hit its stretch run, as many as four MAC teams may qualify for postseason play. Western should be an NCAA lock Even if it does not capture a MAC tournament title, chances are good the Broncos will reach […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Monday, February 9th Delayed Reaction: Ohio State freshman guard Nick Dials could miss a month of action because of a stress fracture in his right wrist, which first occurred nearly two weeks ago. Already struggling in the not-exactly-dominant Big Ten, Ohio State becomes even shallower as […]
