SEC Notebook by Rainer Sabin The Southeastern Conference has picked up where it left off last season, as the 12 schools seem to be conspiring to recreate the 2001-2002 storyline. In a matter of weeks, eerie similarities are surfacing. Alabama and Florida already look formidable. Kentucky is a mess so […]
Conference Notes
Pac 10 Notebook
Pac-10 Notebook by Joaquin Mesa Now that Stanford has handed Xavier its hat and Arizona has decimated Western Kentucky, the Pac-10 will take its place in the upper echelons of college basketball lore. Now, my friends will tell you that I say the same thing every year, and then UCLA […]
West Coast Notebook
West Coast Notebook by James Burns Pepperdine and Gonzaga Stumble Out of the Gates Picked to finish atop the West Coast Conference this season, both Gonzaga and Pepperdine didn’t look the part in their season-openers. No. 22 Gonzaga used a 16-6 run in the first half to stave off Hofstra, […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Notebook by Mitch Schneider Colorado’s Mountain in the Middle Memo to all Big 12 basketball teams: Colorado center David Harrison has officially arrived. The sophomore seven-footer notched his first-ever triple double – second in CU history -as the Buffs cruised to a 107-74 win over Stetson (Fla.) University […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman Everyone Tips Off All the teams in the Mountain West tipped off their season this past week. All in all, the conference started off fairly well going 8-3 against decent competition. Colorado State got the conference going last weekend by sweeping IPFW, Florida Atlantic […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman Season Tips Off What a feeling it is to actually watch the first few games of a new college basketball season! Yeah, reading all the previews and debating them with your friends is fun, but there’s nothing like the rush of actually seeing those […]
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Mitch Schneider It was an interesting first week for the Big 12’s top three teams. Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas (Hoopville’s No. 2, 3 and 5 teams, respectively) proved that even the Big 12’s best have some glaring weaknesses. Though the Jayhawks routed Holy Cross on […]
America East Notebook
America East Notebook by Stephen Murphy Boston University Finally, the Pre-season NIT tournament! I kept reading about the BCS, I thought that stood for the Boston and the Cardinal of Stanford game. The Terriers traveled to California for the first time since 1999. Boston last appeared in the Preseason NIT […]
ACC Notebook
ACC Conference Notebook by Michael Protos The ACC wastes no time creating early ruckus in the world of college basketball UNC lives. Coach K hurts a hip. State and Virginia lose two players before a single minute of regular season play. So many stories already and only one ACC team […]
WAC Notebook
Boise State falls in Preseason NIT by Phil Dailey The Boise State Broncos looked to unveil its new up-tempo offense in front of a national ESPN2 audience Monday night, against the Eastern Illinois Panthers. The new run-n-gun style offense head coach Greg Graham promised appears to be a work in […]
