Patriot League Notebook by Steve Sheridan Gearing Up For League Action The holiday season has come to a close and now the eight teams of the Patriot League are beginning to gear up for league action, which begins this coming Saturday. At this time, it looks as if some teams […]
Month: January 2004
Horizon Notebook
Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann Ah, welcome to the year 2004! Happy New Year! If 2003 is any indication of how 2004 is going to go for the Horizon League – look out! 2003 saw the league grow from an 8-year-old boy to almost a 30-year-old man in just […]
The Day the Music Died
The Day the Music Died by Michael Ermitage Today is the day music died. Pep band music that is. And it’s disgusting. I’ve noticed it for quite some time now – the trend of phasing out pep band music at college basketball games in favor of pro-style music and ads. […]
Conference Rankings
Ranking the Conferences by Zach Van Hart Ahh, conference play. The time we have all been waiting for. Just about the time college football is finished; non-conference games, preseason tournaments all over the country and horribly unfair home team classics are finally wrapping up. So as we tip-off conference games, […]
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Reevaluating The Big Sky So things haven’t gone exactly as planned this preseason for most Big Sky teams. The conference has a combined 42-59 record, with many of those wins coming against non-Division I teams. About half of the conference is playing mediocre basketball, […]
Pac-10 Notebook
Pac-10 Conference Notebook by Scott Allen The first weekend of Pac-10 play did little to separate the pretenders from the contenders as four teams split each of their two games. Stanford, which welcomed the return of All-American candidate Josh Childress to an already strong rotation, opened the conference season 2-0, […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook by Owen Bochner As if only to quiet any doubters, Penn resumed its familiar post as the Ivy League frontrunner with a stellar non-conference performance in the 2003 portion of its season. Following their Holiday Festival tournament championship, the Quakers stand at a non-so-impressive, but conference-leading 5-4 […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 7th UConn survives: Rutgers would love to have the last seven seconds of Tuesday’s matchup with UConn back. The Scarlet Knights battled UConn for every hoop, holding a lead as late as four minutes left in the game. They were tenacious on the offensive […]
Tuesday Morning Point Guard 8
Tuesday Morning Point Guard by Dean Austin A column this week that is written before the Hall of Fame announcements. It’s possible that I will be surprised and that those I believe are equally deserving will get in, but it looks like only Eckersley and Molitor make it this year. […]
January 5th
College Quotebook – December 18th – January 5th by Nicholas Lozito A Knight’s Tale — In an interview with ESPN last week, Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight went off about his relationship with former player and current Iowa coach Steve Alford. ESPN reporter Fran Fraschilla to Alford, regarding perceived tension […]
