Big Sky Quarterfinal Recap by Nicholas Lozito Sacramento State upsets Montana The No. 6 seed Sac State Hornets used 24 points from senior forward Derek Lambeth in a 88-75 win over the Montana Grizzlies on Saturday in Missoula. With the victory, the Hornets advance to the semi-final round of the […]
Month: March 2003
Southern Conference Finals
Southern Conference Finals by Mike Baller The 2003 Southern Conference Championship belongs to The Bucs of East Tennessee State University who receive an automatic bid the NCAA tournament. They held off Chattanooga 97-90 in front of 4,100 fans and a national television audience at the North Charleston Coliseum on Saturday […]
Ohio Valley Finals
Ohio Valley Conference Finals by Zach Van Hart No. 1 Austin Peay vs. No. 3 Tennessee Tech They say it takes a team to win a championship. Nothing personified this statement more than the Austin Peay Governors Saturday afternoon. All five starters scored in double figures as the Govs won […]
Big South Finals
Big South Finals Recap by Michael Protos UNC-Asheville goes dancing for the first time ever 5th-seeded UNC-Asheville completed its miraculous post-season run by defeating 6th-seeded Radford Saturday in the Big South conference championship game. The Bulldogs used suffocating defensive pressure to build a double-digit first half lead, then simply outscored […]
Atlantic Sun Finals
Atlantic Sun Finals Recap by Kristy Shonka Trojans get to dance The third-seeded Troy State Trojans held off a resilient UCF team to beat the fifth-seeded Knights 80-69 Saturday for the Atlantic Sun Championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Knights were able to cut multiple double-digit […]
Bobby Knight’s World
Bobby’s World by Nicholas Lozito Bobby Knight lives to win. The 62-year-old coaching legend is a true competitor, a national champion, a leader, and, above all, a world-class jerk. There is no other way to describe the coach’s actions over the past few weeks. First, Knight suspended forwards Nick Valdez […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman A Tie At The Top Congrats to both Utah and BYU for capturing the conference title with an 11-3 record, three games ahead of their closest competitor. Of course, the Utes can crow a little more about it since they swept the Cougars this […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Penn takes their winning ways to the Big Dance If you follow the Ivy League, you can’t ignore the Penn Quakers sheer dominance through the past 15 years. This past weekend the Quakers (22-5, 14-0) disposed of Columbia and Cornell, clinching the Ivy title, […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, March 12th, 2003 by Michael Ermitage It finally happened. Connecticut’s women’s basketball team lost. In a stunning upset, Villanova topped the Huskies, 52-48, in the Big East tournament championship game. The win by Villanova put an end to Connecticut’s 70-game winning streak that stretched to […]
New Top 16
Bracketing by Michael Ermitage Bracketing Things haven’t changed much in Chicago since January. The weather is still awful, the Bulls are still terrible and the Cubs are still in first place. It was in January when I revealed my double-secret plan of winning every tournament pool I enter. Basically, watch […]
