Conference Notes

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 8th Auburn Mess: The NCAA finally released the details of September’s notice of allegations to Auburn. In the notice, the NCAA claims that Auburn basketball representatives provided a car to the mother of Huntsville, Alabama prep star Chadd Moore, and also arranged wire transfers […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 8th More Baylor Mess: Earlier this week Baylor lost two players to academics for the rest of the season. Yesterday, former Baylor player Chad Elsey filed suit against Baylor and then head coach Dave Bliss alleging that Bliss breached an oral contract that Bliss […]

Patriot League Notebook

Patriot League Notebook by Steve Sheridan Gearing Up For League Action The holiday season has come to a close and now the eight teams of the Patriot League are beginning to gear up for league action, which begins this coming Saturday. At this time, it looks as if some teams […]

Big West Notebook

Big West Conference Notebook by Marcus Vanderberg Missing… the real Long Beach State 49ers Ok, where are the hidden cameras? When did Candid Camera cross over to college basketball? Someone obviously played a prank on UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly this past weekend. The Gauchos, up by 21 in […]

Ivy League Notebook

Ivy League Notebook by Owen Bochner As if only to quiet any doubters, Penn resumed its familiar post as the Ivy League frontrunner with a stellar non-conference performance in the 2003 portion of its season. Following their Holiday Festival tournament championship, the Quakers stand at a non-so-impressive, but conference-leading 5-4 […]

Pac-10 Notebook

Pac-10 Conference Notebook by Scott Allen The first weekend of Pac-10 play did little to separate the pretenders from the contenders as four teams split each of their two games. Stanford, which welcomed the return of All-American candidate Josh Childress to an already strong rotation, opened the conference season 2-0, […]

Big Sky Notebook

Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Reevaluating The Big Sky So things haven’t gone exactly as planned this preseason for most Big Sky teams. The conference has a combined 42-59 record, with many of those wins coming against non-Division I teams. About half of the conference is playing mediocre basketball, […]

Horizon Notebook

Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann Ah, welcome to the year 2004! Happy New Year! If 2003 is any indication of how 2004 is going to go for the Horizon League – look out! 2003 saw the league grow from an 8-year-old boy to almost a 30-year-old man in just […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 7th UConn survives: Rutgers would love to have the last seven seconds of Tuesday’s matchup with UConn back. The Scarlet Knights battled UConn for every hoop, holding a lead as late as four minutes left in the game. They were tenacious on the offensive […]

Nick Dettmann

Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann A Mid-Season in Review As the Horizon League flips the calendar to 2004, it is time to evaluate where each team sits. The 2003-’04 season has seen their share of surprises and has already established many memories and classic moments. The University of Wisconsin-Green […]