Mid-Continent Notebook by Matt Amis While three feet of snow cover the eastern seaboard, things are certainly heating up in the Mid-Contintent Conference. Valpo is still comfortable at the top, but Oakland and IUPUI are in a dogfight for second. Sixth straight for Oakland Oakland got there by upending UMKC […]
But Wait - There's More!
Horizon Notebook
Horizon League Notebook by Brian Seymour Don’t underestimate one of the more important races in the Horizon League standings over the season’s final three weeks — the quest for third place. There’s a huge gulf of a difference between finishing in third or fourth place, as the third place team […]
Conference USA
Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Losing in St. Louis, mayhem in Milwaukee It’s not easy being the No. 2 team in the land. Louisville found this out the hard way last week, but managed to recover in dramatic fashion. Entering last week the Cardinals were 18-1, the last […]
Colonial Notebook
Colonial Notebook by Beth Iskoe It’s crowded at the top There are seven teams within four games of each other in the CAA. UNC Wilmington (16-6, 10-3), which seemed to be pulling away last week, lost one of two games and now holds a slim half-game lead over Virginia Commonwealth […]
WAC Notebook
WAC Notebook by Phil Dailey Louisiana Tech getting ready for March After one of the more disappointing starts of the year, Louisiana Tech is now back in the hunt for the WAC title. The Bulldogs took care of business last week as they knocked off Tulsa in Ruston and both […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 18th, 2003 by Adam Shandler If you live in the DC area, even an Iditarod sled wouldn’t have helped you navigate through the 72 inches of snow that pummeled the area. (Okay, it was more like 40 inches, but once you get past 25 […]
Touring the Northeast
Touring Around the Northeast by Phil Kasiecki There’s a running theme in this week’s look around New England and across the country: tight conference races. It seems like no conference has a runaway leader, or lacks some jockeying for position in its upcoming conference tournament. If anyone needs evidence of […]
Portland Pilots Home Finale
Gaels Ground Pilots in Home Finale by Jed Tai This past Saturday saw many upsets in the ranks of college basketball. The Portland Pilots hoped to be counted among them. Playing host to the St. Mary’s (CA) Gaels in their home finale, the Pilots looked to pick up a much […]
SEC Notebook
SEC Notebook by Rainer Sabin If there was a game that could have stabilized the SEC West, last Saturday’s Alabama-Auburn match-up would have been it. Instead, the Crimson Tide’s 84-68 victory over the Tigers (17-6, 6-4 SEC) only created more havoc and complications in a division marked by chaos. The […]
Big East Notebook
Big East Notebook by Kevin Reilly Different Directions As the Northeast digs out from the Blizzard of 2003, several Big East teams find themselves battling for berths as well as positions for the season ending conference tournament. Some teams are gaining necessary momentum while others may have hit the proverbial […]
