The Morning Dish – Thursday, October 23rd Two More Jump: In what’s becoming a weekly occurrence, two teams have jumped from the Sun Belt Conference to the recently-beleaguered WAC. New Mexico State and Utah State have announced that they will leave the Sun Belt in time for the 2005-06 season. […]
Conference Notes
A-10 Offseason News Update
Atlantic-10 Offseason News Update by Jonathan Scherner West Dayton In April, head coach Oliver Purnell left Dayton after nine years as coach to take over as coach of the Clemson Tigers. Dayton acted quickly and four days later reached an agreement with Brian Gregory to take over as coach of […]
Big Sky Offseason News Update
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Eastern Washington The Eagles added assistant coach Carl Howell to their staff in mid April. Howell coached at Tacoma Community College for the last eleven years, where he compiled a record of 239-83. Idaho State It isn’t necessarily offseason news, but Midnight Madness for […]
Colonial Offseason News Update
Colonial Offseason News Update by Matt Amis Delaware No news is good news for the Hens, who are looking at the addition-by-subtraction approach, and returning four starters from last year’s squad. Picked to finish fourth in the conference by CAA coaches, Delaware will reunite the up tempo backcourt of Mike […]
Big 12 Offseason News Update
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Mitch Schneider Where to begin? It’s been an interesting off-season, to say the least, for the Big 12. From the troubles at Baylor and Iowa State to the new faces at Kansas and K-State, the Big 12 has experienced more plot twists than “The OC.” […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, October 22nd Countersuit: Miami filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Big East and the four football schools suing them, claiming that substantial monetary damages were suffered by Miami by remaining in the Big East for so long. Another suit was filed by Miami against UConn […]
MAC Offseason News Update
Mid-American Offseason News Update by Jeremy Speer As a rising Mid-Major conference, the MAC experienced a shakeup of players and coaches leaving to compete in higher levels. Central Michigan center Chris Kaman gained the Chippewas national attention with his drafting as the No. 6 pick of the Los Angeles Clippers. […]
West Coast Offseason Update
West Coast Conference Offseason News Update by Andria Wenzel The WCC preseason poll has Gonzaga University as the leading vote getter to win the conference, followed by Saint Mary’s, Pepperdine, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Clara, Portland and Loyola Marymount. The coaches also voted on the conference’s top returning players […]
Big East Offseason Update
Big East Offseason News Update by Stephen Murphy Is the Champagne still bubbly? How can you top the ending to 2002? Congratulations to Jim Boeheim for having the perseverance to overcome those Championship Game woes. What a finish in New Orleans! Syracuse wasn’t too ‘Smart’ to let Keith get off […]
Northeastern Midnight Madness
Northeastern Midnight Madness by Phil Kasiecki Perhaps you could call it “Back with a vengeance”. For the first time since 1998, Northeastern held Midnight Madness to mark the start of practice for college basketball teams. They didn’t half-step; everything started before 10 PM, with music and several contests for the […]
