The Morning Dish – January 6th The Great Longhorn Escape: Providence had a chance to prove it belonged in the Hoopville Top 25 last night and almost made their case, but a PJ Tucker overtime buzzer beater sank the Friars and lifted Texas to a 79-77 win. Officials took several […]
Conference Notes
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Monday, January 5th Cardinal on Fire: No. 5 Stanford continued to torch opponents as the Cardinal carved up Washington, 85-72. Stanford shot nearly 60 percent to withstand every attempt by Washington to cut into the Cardinal’s lead. Senior forward Justin Davis led Stanford with 17 points […]
Horizon League Notebook
Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann The final week of the 2003 portion of the schedule was full of tournaments for the Horizon League. But the highlight game occurred in the Windy City with a fantastic match-up between 20th-ranked Illinois and Illinois-Chicago from the United Center in Chicago. Illinois would […]
Metro Atlantic Notebook
Metro Atlantic Notebook by Adam Shandler Penn Takes Manhattan The Jaspers were gunning for three straight Dreyfus Holiday Festival titles, but the Penn Quakers shattered that dream. One night after edging Holy Cross, 56-54, in round one, the Jaspers were steamrolled by a 25-2 run after compiling their own 13-2 […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 31st Chalk up another blowout win for UConn: At some point this season, UConn is going to have to play someone good. But for now, the Huskies are whipping up on lower competition. On Tuesday night, they did away with UMass, 91-67. It was […]
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Who’s Who in the ACC As non-conference plays gives way to the even more exciting ACC season, there are already several surprise teams this year. Georgia Tech has torched everybody from Marist to Connecticut en route to a top five ranking. Virginia and […]
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Conference Notebook by Jeremy Speer Toledo and Western Michigan are proving there are two differing ways to get to the top of the MAC. Heading into the Holiday season, the success Rockets (6-1) and Broncos (5-1) are the biggest stories in the conference. Toledo, a run and gun team […]
Big South Notebook
Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap After a slightly longer than normal break, the Big South Notebook is back and gearing up for the start of conference games Jan. 3. Stay tuned to Hoopville for a Big South Report Card, in which I will take a look at each […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Are the Pirates for real this time? We have seen this before. During the past two seasons, the East Carolina Pirates have gotten off to terrific starts in December, only to fall apart a few weeks into conference play. After its most impressive […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing There wasn’t much on the college basketball plate this week, but we still found out some more about the Big 12 as we head toward the new year. Iowa State might really be for real, and Missouri has a lot of work to […]
