SEC Notebook by Rainer Sabin If there were one word to describe the Southeastern Conference this season, it would be strange. In a league that was defined by parity and saw the emergence of schools that don’t claim a rich basketball tradition, it was Kentucky, ironically, that swept through its […]
Conference Notes
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Passing the torch Marquette needed a win Saturday to claim the outright C-USA regular season title. Fittingly, they played the team that had won the previous seven titles, Cincinnati. After trailing the entire first half, the Golden Eagles and certain player of the […]
Big West Notebook
Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan All as Planned in Final Week During the last week of the regular season, few upsets took place which means whatever seeding teams entered the week with, chances are they left with it. UC Santa Barbara (14-4) won both their games last week […]
Atlantic 10 Notebook
Atlantic Ten Notebook by David Francis Xavier’s Wild Week It’s that time of year again. It’s time to fill in the brackets, take 3 hour lunches, forget about everything else until 65 is down to 1. It’s March. It’s tournament time. For a lot of people (including myself), this is […]
Southland Conference Notebook
Southland Conference Notebook by Scott Allen The Southland Conference tournament gets under way this Monday with a pair of first-round games on the campuses of Texas-Arlington and Southwest Texas. Regular season champion Sam Houston State and second-place finisher Stephen F. Austin received first-round byes and will host second-round games on […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Mitch Schneider Starting this Thursday, the Big 12 will launch its sixth annual conference tournament. And with three of the nation’s top six teams competing (No. 4 Texas, No. 5 Oklahoma and No. 6 Kansas), all eyes will be cast upon Dallas, Texas for much […]
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos In Like A Lion The ACC finished its regular season Sunday and will start the conference tournament with the play-in game Thursday between 8th-seeded Clemson and 9th-seeded Florida State. The final day of regular season action added to the anticipation of this year’s […]
WAC Notebook
WAC Notebook by Phil Dailey The Western Athletic Conference season has come and gone and with no teams this season having any hopes of an at-large bid for the NCAA tourney, this weekend’s WAC championship will place its winner in the field of 65. Since Fresno State imposed its own […]
Big South Semifinals
Big South Semifinals Recap by Michael Protos And that’s why they play the games… No matter what logic may dictate in predicting winners in March collegiate basketball games, madness is the rule. Thou shalt not attempt to bring order to the chaos. The basketball gods will smite all who demand […]
Ohio Valley Semifinals
Ohio Valley Conference Semifinals by Zach Van Hart No. 1 Austin Peay vs. No. 4 Murray State The Governors barely escaped an upset for the second straight game, this time needing an extra five minutes to finish the job. But after two nail bitters, they are exactly where they were […]
