Conference Notes

Pac-10 Notebook

Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Bubbles Anyone? It may be cold, a blizzard wreaking havoc in New York, rain where rain shouldn’t be in Los Angeles, but yet there is still talk of bubbles in the college basketball circuits. Something usually saved for the springtime is already being spoken of […]

ACC Notebook

Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Leaving ACC Opponents in Their Wake I owe an apology to No. 17 Wake Forest – the team, the fans and coach Skip Prosser. Before the season started, I picked the Demon Deacons to finish eighth in the ACC. As of Sunday, Feb. […]

Atlantic Sun Notebook

Atlantic Sun Notebook by Kristy Shonka Knights, Bears Control Their Destiny The University of Central Florida stumbled Thursday against Jacksonville, but with Mercer’s help, the Golden Knights (18-8 overall, 10-3 A-Sun) and the Bears (17-5, 10-2) control their fates heading into the final two weeks of the season. In a […]

Big West Notebook

Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine Shine in Crucial Week During a week when all four of the top teams played one another, it was UC Santa Barbara (10-3) and UC Irvine (9-4) that shined the brightest. The biggest game of the week came […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 19th, 2003, 2003 by Michael Ermitage What is wrong with Alabama? The Crimson Tide have taken a serious nosedive. The once-dominant club is now in danger of missing the NCAA tournament. It would be a first for a team previously raked atop the AP […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 18th, 2003 by Adam Shandler If you live in the DC area, even an Iditarod sled wouldn’t have helped you navigate through the 72 inches of snow that pummeled the area. (Okay, it was more like 40 inches, but once you get past 25 […]

WAC Notebook

WAC Notebook by Phil Dailey Louisiana Tech getting ready for March After one of the more disappointing starts of the year, Louisiana Tech is now back in the hunt for the WAC title. The Bulldogs took care of business last week as they knocked off Tulsa in Ruston and both […]

Colonial Notebook

Colonial Notebook by Beth Iskoe It’s crowded at the top There are seven teams within four games of each other in the CAA. UNC Wilmington (16-6, 10-3), which seemed to be pulling away last week, lost one of two games and now holds a slim half-game lead over Virginia Commonwealth […]

Conference USA

Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Losing in St. Louis, mayhem in Milwaukee It’s not easy being the No. 2 team in the land. Louisville found this out the hard way last week, but managed to recover in dramatic fashion. Entering last week the Cardinals were 18-1, the last […]

Horizon Notebook

Horizon League Notebook by Brian Seymour Don’t underestimate one of the more important races in the Horizon League standings over the season’s final three weeks — the quest for third place. There’s a huge gulf of a difference between finishing in third or fourth place, as the third place team […]