The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 5th Memphis tops Louisville, going to Disneyland ®: Louisville, who was without Taquan Dean, Francisco Garcia (Francisco Cabrera to Steve Lavin – yes folks, he is getting paid by ESPN), and reserve Nouha Diakite, couldn’t overcome a second half surge by Memphis to avoid […]
Month: February 2004
Touring the Northeast
Touring Around the Northeast by Phil Kasiecki Eagles’ Skid Continues Despite Valiant Efforts Boston College took on two of the nation’s best teams this past week, with the same result in each one: despite a valiant effort, they fell at Pittsburgh (68-58) and at home against Connecticut (63-58). The Eagles […]
Interview with Brian Beckford
Insight into Brian Beckford by Keith Irizarry If you were 6-7, 185 pounds, a senior in high school, and one of the best basketball players on your team, how would you act? That’s a loaded question, huh? Most 17 or 18 year old kids would be cocky and walk with […]
Patriot League Notebook
Patriot League Notebook by Steve Sheridan Seeing that this is the Patriot League, I would first like to congratulate the New England Patriots on their second Super Bowl victory in three years Sunday night over the Carolina Panthers. And even though no member of the Patriots (or Panthers, for that […]
Missouri Valley Notebook
Missouri Valley Conference Notebook by Neal Heston Bottoms Up As the regular season heads into its final full month of action, the conference races are just heating up. And even with an unbeaten Southern Illinois team sitting at the top of the standings, the Missouri Valley is still up for […]
Northeast Notebook
Northeast Conference Notebook by Keith Burdette With a three game sweep at home this weekend, St. Francis NY cemented themselves as the first place team in the NEC. Victories over Sacred Heart, Robert Morris and St. Francis PA have put them a game-and-a-half ahead of second place Monmouth. Not much […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman An Era Ends At Utah Utah head coach Rick Majerus has always had two loves in his life: eating and basketball. Unfortunately, it looks like his love for the former will end his career in the latter. After checking into the hospital last Wednesday […]
Mid-Continent Notebook
Mid-Continent Conference Notebook by Nick Dettmann Valparaiso Crusaders (10-9 overall, 7-3 Mid-Con) The powerhouse of the Mid-Con in the last decade is finally becoming that. After they lost three of their first four conference games, Valpo has come back to win six straight games, all of them in conference. Their […]
SWAC Notebook
Southwestern Athletic Conference Notebook by Joaquin Mesa The Lead is Cut to None Mississippi Valley State has been caught by Jackson State in conference play, and things are getting heated with the top two teams in the conference with two losses and Texas Southern, Southern University and Alabama A&M trailing […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 4th Cincinnati upset again: Coming off a home loss to Charlotte over the weekend, it seemed that Cincinnati would take out its frustrations on cross-town rival and struggling Xavier. But the Musketeers are never an easy battle for the Bearcats, and once again Tuesday […]
