Irvine Ready for Prime Time by Don Weinstein 3,299 attended the UC Irvine Anteaters and UC Riverside Highlanders game at Irvine’s Bren Event center the other night, including one gentleman from Hoopville. The Bren Center is located on the UCI campus, in lower Orange County, California. I went expecting to […]
Month: January 2002
An Illogical Weekend
An Illogical Weekend For those of us who don’t remember what we learned in high school math, the Law of Syllogism states that if P is greater than Q, and Q is greater than R, then logically P is greater than R. After the wild weekend of hoops upsets that […]
Big East Notebook
Big East Notebook With the arrival of the New Year, Big East conference play commences. Here’s a look around the Big East at some of the notable and not-so-notable: Boston College Look for super sophomore guard Ryan Sidney to return to form after breaking his jaw in a December practice. […]
Big West Notebook
Big West Notebook SLO . . . but in a good way Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s basketball team is living the university’s guiding philosophy of ‘learn by doing’. What the Mustangs have been doing is nothing short of learning to win. At 2-1 in conference, 8-3 overall, this team […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Notebook Blackbird Coach Flees the Coop It seems like just yesterday I sat in a packed Schwartz Center at Long Island University for the NEC finals. It was a heavily favored LIU team versus underdog Fairleigh Dickinson. FDU pulled off the upset and earned a bid to the 1998 […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook The Men In Black are back. No, not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, the Cincinnati Bearcats. Well, actually they never left, but judging by the preseason media coverage by some organizations (not Hoopville, of course), you’d have thought the Bearcats wouldn’t even be a factor in […]
Horizon Notebook
Horizon Notebook Well, so much for the so-called “experts”. The first Horizon League contests created a lot of question marks for so early in the season. Not only did 19th-ranked (though not for long) Butler get upended – at home, no less – by Wright State, but Detroit Mercy lost […]
Sun Belt Notebook
Sun Belt Notebook Judgement Day Mark January 24th on your calendar, Sun Belt fans. For this will be the day the world finds out if Arkansas-Little Rock is for real. The Trojans begin the conference schedule at 10-3, the same record as the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. The main difference in […]
Pac-10 Notebook
Pac-10 Notebook Not Quite Rodney Dangerfield, but Close The University of Oregon and the University of Southern California are getting little attention from the pollsters so far. The Ducks are 8-3 with a recent sweep of the Arizona schools. The win over the Wildcats was not your usual home crowd […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook Takin’ it to the Bank(s) UNLV’s Marcus Banks was named the MWC’s player of the week for the week ending December 31st. Banks led the Runnin’ Rebels to a pair of victories while averaging 30 points per game, 4 boards, 5 assists, and 3.5 steals last week. […]
