Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman A Wild Week Out West The week started with the Mountain West conference hoping to secure a third NCAA Tournament bid. Utah and BYU were locks, but there were a few teams that still had a shot at the elusive third bid. Would UNLV […]
Conference Notes
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, March 19th, 2003 by Michael Ermitage If the play-in game is any indication of the type of NCAA tournament that is about to begin, we’re all in for a good time. UNC-Ashville topped Texas Southern in overtime, 92-84. UNC-Ashville’s Andre Smith is the first hero […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 18, 2003 by Adam Shandler Not since the cancellation of Alice has a Lavin been this upset. (We hear Vic Tayback took it pretty hard, too.) It was a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately kind of year for UCLA head coach Steve Lavin, and after a 10-19 season, […]
Big West Notebook
Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan Utah State Advances – As Predicted For once I was right. In last week’s column I said Utah State would win the conference title as the third seed, and indeed they did. Everything I predicted would happen did happen to a “T,” with […]
SWAC Notebook
Southwestern Athletic Conference Notebook by Kendrick Marshall The wild and wacky SWAC season has concluded in 2003 and it was a roller coaster ride to say the least. There were huge surprises and major disappointments along the way. Prairie View, who was picked to finish near the bottom of the […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 14th, 2003 by Jon Gonzalez Steve Lavin’s hair displayed a shine seldom seen this season as his Bruins, along with a few other underdogs, pulled off some major upsets Thursday. If the season was any indication of how the Arizona-UCLA Pac-10 Quarterfinal was going […]
Big South Finals
Big South Finals Recap by Michael Protos UNC-Asheville goes dancing for the first time ever 5th-seeded UNC-Asheville completed its miraculous post-season run by defeating 6th-seeded Radford Saturday in the Big South conference championship game. The Bulldogs used suffocating defensive pressure to build a double-digit first half lead, then simply outscored […]
Ohio Valley Finals
Ohio Valley Conference Finals by Zach Van Hart No. 1 Austin Peay vs. No. 3 Tennessee Tech They say it takes a team to win a championship. Nothing personified this statement more than the Austin Peay Governors Saturday afternoon. All five starters scored in double figures as the Govs won […]
Southern Conference Finals
Southern Conference Finals by Mike Baller The 2003 Southern Conference Championship belongs to The Bucs of East Tennessee State University who receive an automatic bid the NCAA tournament. They held off Chattanooga 97-90 in front of 4,100 fans and a national television audience at the North Charleston Coliseum on Saturday […]
Big Sky Quarterfinals
Big Sky Quarterfinal Recap by Nicholas Lozito Sacramento State upsets Montana The No. 6 seed Sac State Hornets used 24 points from senior forward Derek Lambeth in a 88-75 win over the Montana Grizzlies on Saturday in Missoula. With the victory, the Hornets advance to the semi-final round of the […]
