America East Conference Notebook by Adam Reich The Battle of Boston Case Gymnasium was rocking Saturday afternoon with Boston University leading cross-town rival Northeastern 46-30 with just over 16 minutes left in the game. But with the Terriers perhaps counting their seventh straight conference win, the Huskies woke up and […]
Conference Notes
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Monday, January 27th, 2003 by Andrew Flynn The lead story from yesterday – save for that football game in San Diego, was continued streaking. No, I’m not talking about the Nike Soccer commercial with the streaker, I’m referring instead to the Cowboys and Wolverines. No. 15 […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Yale Grieves For Fallen Athletes At approximately 5 a.m. on January 17, four Yale students were killed and five seriously injured while driving back to their campus from New York in their SUV, when they slammed into a flatbed trailer that had veered into […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman The Rivalry Heats Up This past week, fans of the Mountain West got a chance to watch a great game between the league’s biggest rivals. Utah and BYU have split the 32 previous contests, so this game would give one team the slightest edge, […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Joining the party Entering last week, three C-USA teams remained winless in conference play. Well, the party has now officially begun, as these last three squads all cracked the win column during the course of the week. While all three wins could be […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 24th, 2003 by Jon Gonzalez How far will the No.10 Creighton Blue Jays climb up the polls? After Creighton’s 74-66 loss to Evansville on Thursday night, that ascent will be put on hold. Steve Merfeld and his plan to shut down Creighton’s Kyle Korver […]
WAC Notebook
WAC Notebook by Phil Dailey San Jose State earns first conference win That’s right folks, the San Jose State Spartans (4-10 overall, 1-4 WAC) won their first Western Athletic Conference game last Saturday night against one of the league’s best teams. Just when it looked like the Spartans were in […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Notebook by Chris Burke The improbable and incredible turnaround of Michigan continues. The Wolverines, now all-alone in first place in the Big Ten with a 5-0 conference record, have captured 12 straight victories since an 0-6 start and will go for 13 against arch-rival Michigan State on Sunday. […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 23rd, 2003 by Brian Seymour When I went to bed Wednesday night, everything was fine and dandy in the land of the Hoopville Top 25, a perfect 8-0 including an exciting win by No. 22 Georgia over Tennessee in overtime. (More on that in […]
Missouri Valley Notebook
Missouri Valley Notebook by Alan Rubenstein SIU and Creighton lead as the Valley Rises With Southern Illinois’ appearance in last year’s sweet 16 and Creighton making the Valley’s first national top ten appearance since 1986, the Valley is staking claim to that they are a conference that should be noticed […]