Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman The Cougars Are Climbing With two blowout victories this past week, BYU is quickly becoming the most dangerous team in the Mountain West Conference. Buoyed by their big win over Oklahoma State the week before, the Cougs’ confidence shone through in their 92-56 manhandling […]
Month: December 2003
Big 12 Notebook
Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing Ah, the holiday season. For the Big 12 that means big wins, bad losses and … phone recordings from jail? Gather ’round the tree, and I’ll tell you all about it. Clemons saga approaches climax Things keep getting more and more complicated for […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Showdown Saturday Saturday pitted some of the best Conference USA has to offer against some of the best the nation has to offer. Four games pitted C-USA teams against Top 15 teams in the country. Only one of those four games resulted in […]
Metro Atlantic Notebook
Metro Atlantic Conference Notebook by Stephen Dahl Conference Player of the Week: Keydran Clark: St. Peter’s Sophomore Forward. Clark dropped 32 points in a loss to the Seton Hall Pirates, accounting for more than half of the Peacocks’ 61 points. Canisius Golden Griffins (5-3, 0-1 MAAC) The Golden Griffs may […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Monday, December 15th Columbus State Team Captain Dies: Senior guard Jed Bedford of Division II Columbus State (Columbus, Ga.) died of cardiac arrest yesterday after collapsing during practice. Bedford was team captain and a talented shooter. He led Division II last season with 135 three-pointers and […]
Conversation with Kenny Adeleke
A Conversation with Hofstra’s Kenny Adeleke by Adam Shandler Kenny Adeleke, Hofstra’s junior forward from Queens, NY, has endured a problem common among many mid-major stars: Losing seasons, but stupendous personal stats. The Pride, during Adeleke’s freshman and sophomore years, was unremarkable. Prior to his arrival, Hofstra had won back-to-back […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 14th All These Fans For a Basketball Game!: A record crowd for a basketball game gathered at Ford Field in Detroit on Saturday, as 78,129 showed up for the matchup between No. 5 Kentucky and No. 20 Michigan State. The game, dubbed “BasketBowl” and […]
Jameer Nelson
Nelson Returns and Will Finish On a High Note by Phil Kasiecki PHILADELPHIA, Penn. – Phil Martelli can’t say enough good things about Jameer Nelson. The St. Joseph’s media guide has no shortage of ringing endorsements by the head coach of his All-American point guard, and game after game he […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Saturday, December 13th Jayhawk Out: Kansas senior forward Jeff Graves has been suspended indefinitely from the Jayhawk basketball team, head coach Bill Self announced on Friday. Self, who did not disclose the specific infraction, said that Graves was suspended for “lack of respect” for the team […]
SEC Notebook
SEC Notebook by Matt Jones For confirmation of the ever-changing world of college basketball, look no further than the past week’s strange events. In the course of five days, we saw not one, but two No. 1 ranked teams defeated by supposedly inferior teams. Although we will later deal with […]
