Big Ten Notebook by Alan Rubenstein Without further ado, on to the Big Ten news of the week: Illinois – Champaign County State’s Attorney John Piland announced that three Illini players will not be prosecuted for their roles in a November 2nd break-in off campus. Piland would not release the […]
Conference Notes
Big South Conference Notebook
Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap No Surprises Here Early season games in the Big South, especially the match-ups in the first week, typically come in two forms: The impossible games against the heavyweight contenders from the major conferences and the easy wins against non-Division I schools. Granted, there […]
Horizon League Notebook
Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann In the first full week of action, the Horizon League went 10-6, including a match-up with the second ranked team in the nation Duke. Illinois-Chicago, who already came into the weekend having played a few games courtesy of the BCA Classic, opened a home-and-home […]
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Conference Notebook by Jeremy Speer Cardinals pull another upset Ball State continued its penchant for pulling off early season upsets, opening the 2003-2004 season in style with a 75-63 home defeat of Xavier. Two seasons ago, the Cardinals went to the Maui Invitational as underdogs, and defeated Kansas and […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, November 27th Happy Thanksgiving, All! Edwards Dies: Central Michigan announced yesterday that junior Brent Edwards has died from injuries sustained in a car accident. Edwards, a 21-year old walk-on, was critically injured just outside of St. Louis on Monday and was pronounced dead the following […]
Southern Conference Notebook
Southern Conference Notebook by Robby Trail The biggest story in the SoCon this week was how close several teams were to making a big story in the conference. Several teams came oh so close to making national waves and gaining the conference needed recognition. Chattanooga led No. 5 Kansas by […]
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Western conference power rankings Things are so much simpler when you get west of the Rocky Mountains. The Pacific 10 is the lone powerhouse conference, and everyone else is fighting to be the best mid-major. The Mountain West Conference, with UNLV, Utah and New […]
SEC Notebook
SEC Notebook by Matt Jones Well after a long and arduous wait, the college basketball season is back upon us. We have had to wade through a week and a half of garbage games (thank you NCAA and the 2-4 rule), but now it is time to get to the […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 26th Jayhawks make early statement: In the first big game of the college basketball season, Kansas was able to hold off Michigan State in Lawrence. The Jayhawks jumped out to an early lead by hitting its first six shots. It was able to build […]
Atlantic 10 Notebook
Atlantic-10 Conference Notebook by Jonathan Scherner St. Joseph’s Belongs 13th-ranked St. Joseph’s and Jameer Nelson started the season off by proving they both belong. Nelson, a Preseason All American, was just two rebounds away from a triple double, but that didn’t matter as he led the Hawks to the 73-66 […]
