Southern Conference Notebook by Robby Trail Southern Conference teams must start winning non-conference games if they want to gain any respect. Last week as a conference, the teams went 7-7 in non-conference games. This isn’t bad by itself for a mid-major conference, but when you realize that most of those […]
Conference Notes
Big East Notebook
Big East Conference Notebook by Phil Kasiecki Big Win For Providence The Big East lost another undefeated team on Tuesday when Boston College fell to St. Joseph’s, but later that evening, Providence scored a big upset, knocking off Illinois 70-51. The Friars got off to a slow start, but then […]
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Put A Positive Spin On This One For the Big Sky Conference, preseason basketball has not been fun. In fact, it has flat out sucked. I know, as a “professional journalist,” I should probably open up a thesaurus or dictionary and come up with […]
SEC Notebook
SEC Notebook by Matt Jones For confirmation of the ever-changing world of college basketball, look no further than the past week’s strange events. In the course of five days, we saw not one, but two No. 1 ranked teams defeated by supposedly inferior teams. Although we will later deal with […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 11th Clemons Implicates Mizzou: The Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune has released transcripts of prison tapes from former Missouri guard Ricky Clemon’s conversations while incarcerated on assault charges this past summer. The tapes have Clemons stating that he had received money from two assistant coaches […]
Atlantic 10 Notebook
Atlantic-10 Conference Notebook by Jonathan Scherner Flyers crack top 25 The Dayton Flyers have broken into the Hoopville Top 25 after a week where they continued their winning streak. Dayton remained perfect in the Brian Gregory Era with home victories over Miami (OH), Wagner, and Louisiana-Lafayette. Senior forward Keith Waleskowski […]
Big West Notebook
Big West Conference Notebook by Marcus Vanderberg It’s his prerogative Bobby Brown has arrived and I’m not talking about the singer who is on the run from the police. Brown, a freshman guard from Westchester High School (CA) is making his mark for Cal State Fullerton. After a rough two […]
Big South Notebook
Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Historic Victory In eleven tries during the 26-year history of the Winthrop men’s basketball program, the Eagles had never defeated a team from the Southeastern Conference. In fact, Winthrop opened the year with a 65-44 loss to Kentucky, the defending SEC champions. But […]
Billy Packer
Billy Packer – A Nattering Nabob of Negativism? by Matt Jones Well it has to be said. There should be no more whispers, no more waking up in the middle of the night shivering and thinking you are alone in your feelings, no more soft cries for help. Yes it […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 10th Arizona defeats Texas: In the nightcap of the Jimmy V. Classic, Arizona topped Texas, 91-83. The game was tight at halftime, with the Wildcats holding a one-point lead. It seemed that Arizona, who had an early first half double digit lead, was ripe […]
