Conference Notes

Mid-Continent Offseason Update

Mid-Continent Offseason News Update by Cory J. Danner The Mid-Continent Conference was all about change in the off-season. Many teams added new coaches, many players graduated and throngs of freshman are being brought in, and the biggest change of all was a new commissioner. Ron Bertovich was brought in to […]

SoCon Offseason Update

SoCon Offseason News Update by Robby Trail Appalachian State Coaching Changes: Mountaineers head coach Houston Fancher hired Daryl Robinson as an assistant. Robinson previously coached high school ball at Lee Road High School in Raleigh for ten seasons, taking Lee to the state playoffs nine of those ten seasons. College […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Wednesday, October 15th NABC Summit: Today is the National Association of Basketball Coaches mandatory meeting in Chicago, where coaches will address the number of problems and scandals that have happened in the past year, from the St. Bonaventure scandal, the Georgia scandal, the Iowa State scandal, […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Tuesday, October 14th Today’s Morning Dish is an All-Big East edition. Slighted: Syracuse athletic director Jake Crouthamel yesterday pouted yesterday, ripping Boston College for leaving the Big East for the ACC. According to the Associated Press, Crouthamel said, “Three months ago, [we] sat face to face […]

Big West Offseason Update

Big West Offseason News Update by Dean Austin You know, when one of the biggest pieces of news during the off season is one school putting in a new scoreboard, it might be time for a little more excitement in your conference. Certainly no conference wishes to go through the […]

ACC Offseason Update

ACC Offseason News Update by Michael Protos The ACC seems to find a way to remain in headlines regardless of whether or not it’s basketball season. Duke lost a recruit through circumstances that question the sanctity of the national letter of intent. The earth-shaking coaching change at North Carolina created […]

Pac-10 Offseason Update

Pac-10 Offseason Update by Scott Allen Arizona Chris Dunn, who redshirted last year, is no longer enrolled at the school and will not compete in the 2003-04 season. Junior center Channing Frye and junior guard Salim Stoudamire were named to the Wooden Award Preseason Team. The Wildcats will be celebrating […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Monday, October 13th And BC Makes 12: The other shoe dropped yesterday, as the ACC formally invited Boston College to leave the Big East and join the ACC, which the school quickly accepted. The move, which had been speculated upon since the NCAA vetoed the ACC’s […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Saturday, October 11th Case Dismissed, Mostly: The Big East has dropped the ACC from its lawsuit over conference expansion. Connecticut judge Samuel Sferrazza dropped the conference from consideration in the suit, which now has Miami as the sole defendant in an alleged plot to weaken the […]

Metro Atlantic Offseason News

Metro Atlantic Offseason Update by Adam Shandler Conference Racks Up: The MAAC needed a Mack truck to take home all the hardware it collected at the NIT/Met Basketball Writers Association’s 70th annual Haggerty Awards held in May. At the ceremony, staged at the New Jersey Meadowlands, Manhattan’s Luis Flores received […]