Illinois-Chicago at UW-Milwaukee: A heated rivalry reunited by Nick Dettmann MILWAUKEE – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panther fans can remember the beating UWM gave to Butler in the Horizon League conference championship game last season. But not many will recall how they got to that all-important game. On March 8, 2003, […]
Month: December 2003
Missouri Valley Notebook
Missouri Valley Conference Notebook by Neal Heston Missouri Valley lookin’ beautiful Going by the Mid-Major rankings released by ESPN last week, the road to the MVC title is way up for grabs. Four teams from the Missouri Valley are featured in the top ten by espn.com. With an 8-0 start […]
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito A Kodiak Moment Senior forward Aaron Bond scored a short-range bucket with 1.6 seconds remaining to give Northern Arizona a 74-73 road win over UNLV on Thursday. Sixth man Kodiak Yazzie fed the game-winning pass to Bond, giving the Lumberjacks their first road win […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman Saturday Sweep This past Saturday was a busy day in the Mountain West Conference as seven of its eight teams played in arenas from Florida to California. By night’s end, all teams would come out victorious in a nice sweep before the Christmas break. […]
Atlantic 10 Notebook
Atlantic-10 Conference Notebook by Jonathan Scherner Respect earned Dayton and St. Joseph’s seem to be unbeatable in the early part of the season. The Flyers and Hawks are the A-10’s only undefeated teams as well as the only ranked teams in the conference. The Hawks are 8-0 and cracked the […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart The deep just got deeper No. 16 Cincinnati was already the deepest team in Conference USA before this weekend. Now, they are even deeper. Florida transfer and the much hyped James White played his first game as a Bearcat Saturday, scoring eight points […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 24th Illini earn Braggin’ Rights: Early on, it looked like Illinois was going to coast to an easy win in the annual Braggin’ Rights game with Missouri. But Mizzou seniors Arthur Johnson, Rickey Paulding and Travon Bryant were not about to let Illinois beat […]
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Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 23rd Zona Conquers Aztecs: San Diego State made things interesting, getting as close as 32-29, but Lute Olson’s Wildcats remain undefeated in December. Down 10 at the half, SDSU traded buckets with the Cats in the second stanza and but came up short, 83-71. […]
Conversation with Dawn Harmon
A Conversation with the NAIA’s Dawn Harmon by Adam Shandler I recently did a Google search for NAIA statistical leaders. The search came back asking if I meant NCAA statistical leaders instead. Even my spell check wants to make the change. There’s another league out there, and it’s called the […]
