Month: December 2004

Big West Conference Preview

Big West Conference Preview by Josh Diggs The Big West Conference is by no means as good as the SEC, ACC or Pac-10 conferences, but they are getting better. Utah State hovered around the nation’s top 25 polls for several weeks and Pacific made a splash last March by crashing […]

Part 2

Atlantic 10 Conference Preview – Part Two by Nate Beardsley In Part One of the A-10 Preview, we handed out Preseason Hardware, and projected the East Division. Below, in Part Two, we’ll finish up by previewing the West Division. West Division 1. George Washington Colonials 18-12 (11-5, A-10), 2nd in […]

Interview with Paul Biancardi

Coach Biancardi Spills the Beans by Bill Kintner An interview with Wright State Coach Paul Biancardi where he talks about the Raiders, how he coaches, the Horizon League and even where to get some good Italian food. When I arrived at Coach Biancardi’s office he came out and greeted me […]

ABA Co-Founder Joe Newman

Not Your Father’s ABA by Adam Shandler A Conversation With New ABA Co-founder Joe Newman The ABA, that rival league of the NBA which defined sports as a fashion statement from 1967 to 1976, is back. Yes, the red, white and blue ball is back. George Gervin is back (as […]

Mid-American Preview

Mid-American Conference 2004-05 Preview by Ryan Lyle Commings The Mid-American Conference is most certainly the Mac of the mid-major conferences around the country. There is a lot of little known talent in this league and there will be a lot of interesting surprises from the conference throughout the year. The […]

Big South Preview

Big South Conference Preview by Jeremy Dunlap Everybody is now invited. After an NCAA ruling early in the off-season, Birmingham-Southern will be allowed to compete for the Big South’s automatic bid a year sooner than expected. Birmingham-Southern, which finished tied for first in the regular season last year with Liberty, […]

Big 12 Preview

Big 12 Conference Preview by Zach Ewing With the college semester halfway over, the wait is also over. College basketball season, brought on by Midnight Madness celebrations across the country, is underway. And perhaps nowhere in the country is it more anticipated than in the Midwest where the talent, unlike […]

Part 1

Atlantic 10 Conference Preview – Part One by Nate Beardsley In order to prepare yourself for the 2004-05 Atlantic 10 men’s basketball season, you’re going to need to forget everything that has happened in the past five years. Forget the dominance of Xavier, Dayton and Saint Joseph’s. That era is […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 16th Wallace Hospitalized: Hawaii head coach Riley Wallace was hospitalized due to heart surgery yesterday. Wallace, in his 18th season at the helm of the Warriors, underwent angioplasty surgery, where a stint was inserted into his right coronary artery to improve blood flow. He […]

The Lure of the NBA

Who Are They? by Nicholas Lozito Who are these men? So few of their names ring a bell. Their faces don’t shed any sense of familiarity. Do the players who dominated the collegiate game yesteryear still exist? Have they found a new hobby? Where can I find them? The answers […]