Coaches Meet to ‘Raise the Standard’ by Nick Dettmann In the wake of the scandals from this past summer, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the NCAA decided to meet and try to come up with a way of correcting the problems that faces college basketball and its […]
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Ivy League Offseason Update
Ivy League Offseason News Update by Owen Bochner More Restrictions, Less Restrictions: The annual Ivy Group Council of Presidents meeting in June brought some good news and some bad news to Ancient Eight athletes and teams. The bad news is a tightening of admissions standards for varsity athletes, including placing […]
Missouri Valley Offseason Update
Missouri Valley Offseason News Update by Michael Ermitage The major news to hit the Missouri Valley conference during the lengthy off-season was the announcement that all 10 of its member schools will be involved in ESPN’s 2004 Bracket Buster event on Saturday, February 21. The Bracket Buster originated last year […]
Patriot League Offseason News Update
Patriot League Offseason News Update by Steve Sheridan American The Eagles were very excited about their incoming first-year class for the 2003-2004 season, which includes co-State Player of the Year in Virginia Linas Lekavicius and 6-foot 10-inch Brayden Billbe. Lekavicius, a native of Silale, Lithuania, averaged over 25 points and […]
Big South Offseason News Update
Big South Offseason News Update by Jeremy Dunlap Swap Meet: The biggest off-season news in the Big South occurred on July 1, when VMI officially became a member of the conference and Elon officially left. VMI left the Southern Conference, of which they had been a member since 1925, and […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, October 16th Conference Madness: You can now add Marshall to the conference fray. Thundering Herd Athletic Director Bob Marcum has announced that he has been contacted regarding a possible Conference USA expansion slot. A Tampa paper reported yesterday that Marshall, along with SMU, Rice, Tulsa […]
Boston College and the ACC
Boston College and the ACC by Phil Kasiecki Boston College leaving the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference seemed inevitable in the spring. As such, it should come as no surprise that the school is now headed to the ACC after all, though there were some major developments in […]
Hoopville Third-Team All-Americans
Hoopville Third-Team All-Americans by Phil Kasiecki Dee Brown, Illinois (6’0″, 175, So. G, 12.0 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 5.0 apg) With Big Ten Player of the Year Brian Cook gone, Brown becomes the focus of the young Illini. But he won’t have to do it alone; he’s the floor leader of […]
Hoopville Second Team All-Americans
Hoopville Second-Team All-Americans by Phil Kasiecki Ike Diogu, Arizona State (6’8″, 250, So. F, 19.0 ppg, 7.8 rpg) A quiet kid hidden away on one of the Pac Ten’s middle teams, Diogu had one of the best seasons of any freshman last year. He could be a 20-10 player this […]
Hoopville First Team All-Americans
Hoopville First-Team All-Americans by Jed Tai Emeka Okafor, Connecticut Emeka Okafor is Hoopville’s pre-season player of the year. It only makes sense when you think about it – he’s the only returning player from last season that made any post-season All-American teams last season. But that’s not the only reason […]
