Month: December 2003

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Saturday, December 6th UMass to retire Skinner jersey: Former University of Massachusetts basketball star Al Skinner will be honored at halftime of the UMass and Rhode Island game on Feb. 18 to retire his No. 30 jersey. “I am very honored and happy to be receiving […]

Colonial Notebook

Colonial Offseason News Update by Matt Amis Heads Up Did the rest of the nation miss the memo? The CAA has been on top of its collective non-conference schedule. The league’s 10 teams have posting a combined record of 20-15. Eight CAA squads have winning percentages of .500 or better. […]

MEAC Notebook

MidEastern Athletic Conference Notebook by Joaquin Mesa This conference has seen better days. The only win worth noting was a first game victory by Hampton over La Salle, but then Hampton lost five straight. There is one team that is five hundred and a few that have won a game. […]

Big South Notebook

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Bad Offense or Good Defense? Why should the score 38-34 look familiar to anybody? Well, it was the final score of the exciting game played between Florida and Florida State’s football teams Nov. 29. But it was probably also the halftime score of […]

Ivy League Notebook

Ivy League Notebook by Owen Bochner The theme of this young season for the Ivy League has been a valiant (though usually unsuccessful) attempt to play with the big boys. One look at the early non-conference schedules of several Ancient Eight squads gives the impression that maybe these teams have […]

Big Ten Notebook

Big Ten Notebook by Alan Rubenstein Feast Week was very kind to the Big Ten. Iowa, Indiana and Purdue showed why people think of the state of Indiana when the eyes of college basketball were on the Big Ten. The Hoosiers and Hawkeyes both prevailed in thrillers at the Wooden […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Friday, December 5th Conference Shuffling: Florida Atlantic has accepted an invitation to join the Sun Belt Conference for all sports for 2005-06. The Owls, who are currently in the Atlantic Sun Conference, are moving up to Division I-A in football, where they currently are a Division […]

Thursday Power Poll

TMPG Thursday Power Poll by Dean Austin Good Morning and welcome to a slight change. After a couple of weeks of Tuesday Morning Point Guard we’ve decided to split out my Power Poll into a separate column. Rather than wait 9 days from the last column, especially given all the […]

SEC Notebook

SEC Notebook by Matt Jones The season is now fully upon us and we have learned a few initial things. First, regardless of what any preseason magazine said, there is no dominant team in college basketball. No. 4 Connecticut has the most potential to become a runaway favorite, but as […]

Missouri Valley Notebook

Missouri Valley Conference Notebook by Neal Heston Creighton and Southern Illinois are the only two MVC teams that remain unbeaten after nearly two weeks of play. Both are steamrolling their ways through the beginning of the season. Bradley and Wichita State are close behind with one loss each. The quick […]