Month: January 2004

Sun Belt Notebook

Sun Belt Conference Notebook by Zach Van Hart Despite stars, Indians failing When a team sports the conference’s top two scorers and top rebounder, it should also be at the top of the conference’s standings, right? Apparently this is not the case in the Sun Belt, as the Arkansas State […]

Patriot League Notebook

Patriot League Notebook by Steve Sheridan Let the Patriot Games Begin The first weekend of Patriot League action ended with the standings pretty much the same as they were during the majority of the non-league slate. Lafayette and Lehigh continued to keep hold of the first and second place slots, […]

Top Recruiting Classes Part 2

Top Early Recruiting Classes, No. 6-10 by Keith Irizarry Last week I broke down the Top 5 recruiting classes for 2004 and there are some amazing players headed into college next season. This week I will round out my top 10 and list some of the big names that have […]

Assistants on the Way Up

“March Madness” of a Different Kind by Jim Woods Hop On-Board the Coaching Carousel Friday, December 19th St. John’s University parted ways with Head Coach Mike Jarvis in the first ever in-season firing of a Big East head coach. Many, including myself, were shocked and appalled that a coach could […]

Atlantic Sun Notebook

Atlantic Sun Conference Notebook by Jonathan Scherner The Atlantic Sun is starting to get tight at the top. With Georgia State’s victory over Troy State Tuesday, Central Florida is the only undefeated team left in the conference. Troy State is still second with a record of 6-1, but the Panthers […]

Ohio Valley Notebook

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook by Michael Protos Although the OVC is far from being a power conference, college basketball connoisseurs know that conferences like the OVC often produce an unheralded champion loaded with unappreciated talented that can upset an unsuspecting national powerhouse in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Monday, January 19th Remembering Dr. King: Today is the holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of our nation’s greatest civil rights leaders. With the work inspired by King and others dedicated social equality, college basketball looks different than it did just half of a […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Friday, January 16th Romero to sit: Diego Romero of Florida State has decided to sit out this season, just days after he was ruled eligible by the NCAA. Romero, a 6-foot-10 star from Argentina, was initially ruled a professional by the NCAA but was reinstated Monday. […]

College Quotebook 6

College Quotebook – January 7th – 14th by Nicholas Lozito Leading The Pac “We’re maturing and learning, and at the same time we’re not losing. A team hits us with something devastating, we don’t panic, we don’t get all bottled up about it. We just come back.” — UCLA forward […]

Checking the Polls

Rating the Ratings by Michael Ermitage Call me a geek, but I like computers. I’m not into the AGP graphics cards or the Flash SRAM memory. Nor am I into chat rooms and role-playing games. The Internet, though, is a pretty damn cool thing. Heck, without the Internet, you wouldn’t […]