Month: January 2004

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – January 20th Pitt Gets Hurt-ford: Well, Pittsburgh is still unbeaten at home, so they’ve got that going for them. But when the Panthers took a road trip to Hartford, they were handed their first loss of the season. UConn outlasted Jamie Dixon’s club, 68-65, and bounced […]

TCU’s Corey Santee

TCU’s Hard-Working Corey Santee by Zach Van Hart He looks like Mekhi Phifer, except not as big. His shot looks like Steve Logan’s, except not as pretty. His job is to lead his team; however his team is not very good. Who is this possible unfortunate soul? Corey Santee, junior […]

Colonial Notebook

Colonial Notebook by Adam Shandler Tight at the Top The CAA season is not even a month old and already teams are trading paint for the top spot. There are four teams legitimately jostling for first, and quite apropo, the top team is royalty… Monarchs Own The Throne Old Dominion […]

ACC Notebook

Atlantic Coast Conference Notebook by Michael Protos How to Win the ACC Last week, ACC teams played 10 games, most of which were conference games. In all 10 games, the home team won. Winning your home games is one half of the recipe for capturing an ACC title. The other […]

Conference USA Notebook

Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart No move in 2004 It looks as if the snag in speeding up the country-wide conference alignment for the 2004-05 season came from none other than C-USA. Instead, only Miami and Virginia Tech will move from the Big East to the ACC next […]

Big South Notebook

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Making Moves The top of the Big South standings remains rather crowded as five teams still sit within a game-and-a-half of first place, but High Point and Winthrop both did their best to improve their positions in the standings this past week. Both […]

Mountain West Notebook

Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman Time for the Main Course The eight teams of the Mountain West Conference have feasted on a number of appetizers in preparation for the main course: conference play. Some tasted really good (wins against Oklahoma State, Purdue, Dayton and Auburn), while others left a […]

Northeast Conference Notebook

Northeast Conference Notebook by Keith Burdette The last week of non-conference play featured several games against the Ivy League which NEC teams split. First was the Monmouth-Princeton game mentioned in last week’s article where Princeton won going away 67-52. Central Connecticut State took on Brown last Friday but lost 79-58 […]

Bruce Weber

Live from Chicago – Illinois head coach Bruce Weber by Alan Rubenstein Preceding Illinois’ third Chicago-area appearance of the season with an excursion to Evanston to face Northwestern, Niketown Chicago featured a pep rally with a talk by Illini Head Coach Bruce Weber. A few hundred fans turned out to […]

Green Bay-Milwaukee War for First

Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Wisconsin-Green Bay: A First-Place War by Nick Dettmann GREEN BAY – It was one of the most anticipated match-ups of the season. Not only was it for in-state bragging rights for the next three weeks, but it was for first place in the competitive and tight Horizon League. […]