Month: December 2003

Big West Notebook

Big West Conference Notebook by Marcus Vanderberg Big West team finally comes through Finally, after a week filled with near-upsets, leave it to Cal State Fullerton to actually pull one off. The Titans went into Firestone Fieldhouse and knocked off the Pepperdine Waves 78-74. Earlier in the week, Cal State […]

SWAC Notebook

Southwestern Athletic Conference Notebook by Joaquin Mesa I began the season by taking pot-shots at the SWAC Conference, and I feel horrible about it. I have nothing against the conference other then its lack of creativity when choosing mascots for its teams. In fact, I’ve been proven wrong by the […]

Atlantic 10 Notebook

Atlantic-10 Conference Notebook by Stephen Dahl Aloha Flyers The Maui Invitational has seen past winners such as Duke, Kentucky and Kansas. The Dayton Flyers join them with 3 wins in three days. They achieved victories over San Diego St. and Hawaii to jump new head coach Brian Gregory up to […]

Horizon League Notebook

Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann The hot-spot game was thought to be in Milwaukee as it was a re-match between Southern Illinois and the UW-Milwaukee Panthers after the classic in Carbondale last year. Instead, the classic happened in one of the unlikely places, Cleveland. The Cleveland State Vikings played […]

America East Notebook

America East Notebook by Adam Reich Baltimore’s Best UMBC won the Battle of Baltimore for the fourth consecutive season after toppling Towson 59-53 on Saturday. Recently, the Retrievers have dominated this four-team tournament, which includes Baltimore area schools UMBC, Towson and Loyola each year and either Coppin State or Morgan […]

Southland Conference Notebook

Southland Conference Notebook by Adam Shandler Lamar: Terrell Petteway is lighting it up for the Cardinals. Problem is, his efforts may be sneezed upon by the hoops elite. Petteway opened the season with both a 23 and 10 double-double and a 30 point outing. Those stellar performances, however, came against […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 4th Fox Won’t Hunt: Arizona forward Isaiah Fox is likely done for the season after undergoing knee surgery on Tuesday. Fox, a 6-9 forward, tore his left meniscus in the ‘Cats loss to Florida last Friday. The junior showed early promise by recording his […]

College Quotebook

College Quotebook – November 25th – December 2nd by Nicholas Lozito “Can I Get A Sub…Anybody?” “I’m playing with a 5-10 shooting guard and my backup point guard is a midget. Halfway through the game, I went to press row and started asking guys if they had eligibility left.” – […]

ACC-Big Ten Challenge Day 3

Previewing Day 3’s Action by Michael Protos and Alan Rubenstein No. 15 Georgia Tech at Ohio State Ohio State and Georgia Tech enter their challenge contest going in opposite directions. The Buckeyes opened the season with a loss at San Francisco and against San Diego State in the first round […]

All Whoops Team

Pitching the Wooden Whoops Team by Joaquin Mesa Four teams in the Hoopville top ten lost this last week, leaving the number one spot up for grabs, and Kansas took it ready and willing. Kansas’ jump from number No. 5 to number No. 1 is impressive, and they are worthy […]