Who Needs a Number 1? by Adam Shandler It happened to UConn. It happened to Kansas. And it just happened to Florida. In a year where parity among the upper echelon teams seems to be a theme, being number one just ain’t what it used to be. So why have […]
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Big South Notebook
Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Historic Victory In eleven tries during the 26-year history of the Winthrop men’s basketball program, the Eagles had never defeated a team from the Southeastern Conference. In fact, Winthrop opened the year with a 65-44 loss to Kentucky, the defending SEC champions. But […]
Big West Notebook
Big West Conference Notebook by Marcus Vanderberg It’s his prerogative Bobby Brown has arrived and I’m not talking about the singer who is on the run from the police. Brown, a freshman guard from Westchester High School (CA) is making his mark for Cal State Fullerton. After a rough two […]
Atlantic 10 Notebook
Atlantic-10 Conference Notebook by Jonathan Scherner Flyers crack top 25 The Dayton Flyers have broken into the Hoopville Top 25 after a week where they continued their winning streak. Dayton remained perfect in the Brian Gregory Era with home victories over Miami (OH), Wagner, and Louisiana-Lafayette. Senior forward Keith Waleskowski […]
UWM at Valparaiso
Panthers down Valparaiso at the End by Nick Dettmann VALPARAISO, IND. – In their third game of a four-game road trip, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers took on Mid-Continent Conference powerhouse, and former conference rival, Valparaiso from the Athletics-Recreation Center. Early on, the contest looked more like a track meet […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 11th Clemons Implicates Mizzou: The Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune has released transcripts of prison tapes from former Missouri guard Ricky Clemon’s conversations while incarcerated on assault charges this past summer. The tapes have Clemons stating that he had received money from two assistant coaches […]
College Quotebook 3
College Quotebook – December 3rd – December 10th by Nicholas Lozito Jailhouse Confessions “When I first got here, they did, they did everybody. I mean, they do A.J. and Rickey. If they need money, they’d go to Harvey. He, he’d get it for ’em… But it was him first, and […]
Touring the Northeast
Touring Around the Northeast by Phil Kasiecki Eagles Continue to Win – Barely Boston College continued its winning ways this past week to improve to 6-0, though they needed overtime on Saturday in the Commonwealth Classic against struggling Massachusetts. The Eagles disposed of Holy Cross on Tuesday, nearly a year […]
Pac-10 Unknowns
The Unknowns of the Pac-10 by Joaquin Mesa As Arizona was playing Texas last night, I recalled how in an earlier article I pretended not to be a Pac-10 fanatic. I spoke of how the Pac-10 was not as strong as previous years. I based this assumption on the fact […]
Big Ten Notebook
Big Ten Notebook by Alan Rubenstein Big Ten not up to the Challenge The Big Ten-ACC challenge was not much of a challenge from the ACC’s perspective. The ACC dominated this year’s challenge by a 7-2 margin. An old sports axiom is to win the predominance of your games at […]