Big East Notebook by Kevin Reilly Let the Games Begin Monday night’s feature presentation of then No. 6 Notre Dame and No. 3 Pittsburgh signaled to me the start of another Big East season. It wasn’t exactly the first league game but a Monday night matchup of two top ranked […]
Conference Notes
Pac 10 Notebook
Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa The beginning of Pac-10 play usually forces me to rethink my perceptions of the rational world. After all, if Arizona State could beat Oregon last year, then am I really a sentient being, or merely a pawn in a much larger, much more ordered reality? […]
Big West Notebook
Big West Conference Notebook by Shaan Hassan New Year, New Season As the new year began, so did a new season: the conference season. This is where the gloves are dropped and the teams with the smallest amount of blood on their jersey in the end are crowned kings. The […]
D-1 Independent Notebook
D-1 Independents Notebook by Stephen Murphy Centenary The Gents are keeping themselves tense, as they are having trouble on the defensive. With the exception of the Western Michigan game, Centenary finds itself on the losing end of teams breaking out of slumps. Centenary is now 5-8 after dropping their latest […]
WAC Notebook
WAC Notebook by Phil Dailey Last place, Broncos think not At the beginning of the season the Boise State Broncos (8-4, 2-0 WAC) were picked by most media outlets to finish last in the Western Athletic Conference. Althon, The Sporting News and Street and Smith all picked the Broncos to […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 7, 2003 by Adam Shandler It was a clash of titans, without Harry Hamlin or Sir Laurence Olivier. In one of the most anticipated matchups since Notre Dame cracked the Top 25, No. 7 Pitt blew away the fifth ranked Fighting Irish, 72-55. Both […]
Big South Notebook
Big South Notebook by Doug McKinney In quest for fifth title in a row, Winthrop loses seventh-straight away game at Radford. The faces on the four time Big South champion Winthrop players told it all. They displayed a look of shock as they saw their thirteen point lead collapse to […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Mitch Schneider Hot streak Talk about starting the New Year off with a bang. As of last weekend, every Big 12 school is currently riding a winning streak. That’s right… all twelve teams are presently sitting on some kind of a hot streak, and their […]
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due Three ACC teams entered the new year undefeated: No. 1 Duke, Clemson and No. 23 Wake Forest. The first two met Sunday as Duke asserted its dominance in an 89-71 victory at Clemson. Freshman guard J.J. Redick […]
MAC Notebook
Mid-American Conference Notebook by Adam Trumble Bobcats Heating Up The Ohio Bobcats have struggled so far this season but the East Division favorite is starting to warm up after defeating St. Bonaventure 104-101 and coming back from a 19-point deficit before falling to No. 20 Kentucky 83-75 in Cincinnati. Keith […]