Big 12 Conference Notebook by Mitch Schneider Tigers lock-up Snyder Good news for all hair salons in central Missouri. Last Friday, Mizzou signed head coach Quin Snyder to a two-year contract extension, meaning the Big 12’s best-haired and best-dressed coach will remain in Columbia through at least 2008. At 36, […]
Conference Notes
ACC Notebook
Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Tigers and Deacons Earn Their Props As the ACC opens its conference season, three teams remain undefeated. Few would be shocked to see No. 4 Duke dominant at the top, especially if you check out most of the cupcake teams the freshmen devoured […]
Ohio Valley Notebook
Ohio Valley Conference Notebook by Stephen Murphy Austin Peay Governors Legislation has been to Coach Dave Loos’ fruition early on this season. This is of course considering the Governors do not have a marquee guard for the first time four seasons. Austin Peay got off to a 5-3 start, their […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Chris Roddy Coal or the NBA? All I want for Christmas is . . . The lingering taste of cookies and cakes couldn’t sweeten the soured mouth of one despondent basketball fan. With no college hoops on, I had to turn to the NBA in order […]
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Welcome to the Lozito Psychic Hotline First and foremost, I would like to declare myself a college basketball guru. I am now three-for-three in predicting the winner of the Game of the Week in my Big Sky Notebooks. The past two weeks I have […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Saturday, December 28, 2002 by Brian Strong The depleted No. 22 North Carolina Tar Heels lost to the Iona Gaels last night at Madison Square Garden, marking the first time since February 21, 1980 that Iona defeated a nationally-ranked squad. That hurts in Chapel Hill. But […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 24, 2002 by Adam Shandler Twas a fright down in Gainesville, and all through the game, the Gators were losing, Charleston Southern’s to blame. The Buccaneers led by ten points with a laugh, and danced as they went up by a deuce at the […]
MAC Notebook
Mid-American Conference Notebook by Adam Trumble Last season, Central Michigan won one road game — its Mid-American Conference Tournament first round game at Ohio. This season is looking like an entirely different story as the Chippewas have already won three. After dropping their first road game of the season by […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman The Stars Are Out The Mountain West Conference is hurting, literally. This past week saw a number of the league’s star players go down with injuries. In Thursday’s game against South Carolina, Wyoming’s Marcus Bailey went down with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, ending […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Penn Coming off two consecutive losses to teams from the Colonial Athletic Association, Penn Quaker coach Fran Dunphy claimed he wasn’t too worried about the early-season defeats. He thought that it would only be a matter of time before he would begin to see […]
