Big East Notebook by Kevin Reilly Don’t Look Over Nova The Villanova Wildcats will certainly be an interesting team to follow this winter. How far Coach Jay Wright’s squad will go remains to be seen but the future in Philly is so bright they may be wearing shades inside the […]
Conference Notes
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Conference Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Eagles take third place at NABC Classic The media poll and coaches’ poll selected Eastern Washington to win the Big Sky Conference on Wednesday. Two days later the Eagles were blasted, 81-55, in the first round of the NABC Classic in Madison, against […]
Mid-American Notebook
Mid-American Conference Notebook by Adam Trumble Exhibition, exhibition and more exhibition. The Mid-American Conference men’s basketball season officially kicks off Friday night when Northern Illinois takes on Winthrop at the NARC Classic in Madison, Wisconsin. All the other teams wind up their exhibition games this weekend before MAC West favorite […]
Big East Preview
Big East Conference Preview by Phil Kasiecki The Big East Conference saw another very competitive season of basketball last season, as the outcome of few games could be accurately predicted with the teams being relatively even. Five Big East teams made the NCAA Tournament, with Connecticut getting as far as […]
Ohio Valley Preview
Ohio Valley Conference Preview by David Smotherman Racers try to run away with it…again? This season the Ohio Valley Conference seems be split into three levels. There are the two serious favorites (Murray and Tech), three more knocking at the door (Morehead, Peay and Eastern Ill.) and four teams looking […]
Missouri Valley Preview
Missouri Valley Conference Preview by Adam Reich Everybody who correctly had Southern Illinois in the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA Tournament please stand up. Now tell me, why am I the only one standing? I’ll tell you why. It’s because the Missouri Valley Conference, like Rodney Dangerfield, “Gets no […]
Atlantic Sun Preview
Atlantic Sun Conference Preview by Amanda Breedlove The 2002-2003 men’s basketball season is less than two weeks away and the 12 teams in the Atlantic Sun Conference are getting ready for another exciting five-month stretch of competitive college basketball. Many teams are getting revved-up for regular-season play with preseason exhibitions […]
Southern Conference Preview
Southern Conference Preview by David Smotherman After a banner year in 2001-02 that saw the Southern Conference finish the season ranked in the RPI’s top 15, the teams of the SoCon are out to prove that last year’s strong overall effort was not a fluke. The road is always rugged […]
Big Ten Preview
Big Ten Conference Preview by David Mosse Parity marked the Big Ten last season as four schools (Ohio State, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin) claimed a share of the conference crown and it seemed on any given night anything could happen. While Illinois was expected to carry the mantle nationally for […]
Atlantic 10 Preview
Atlantic 10 Conference Preview by Chris Silva The only Atlantic-10 Conference off-season news that made headlines was the return of Xavier’s David West, the reigning conference player of the year on the lone A-10 team to make it to the Big Dance last season. Throw in the minute coaching carousel […]
