Month: January 2005

Look around the nation

Some Things Just Never Change by Matt Jones Well folks, it is time to finally admit to ourselves something that we have been putting off for far too long. Like a group of long-haired hippies in Ohio who still insist that there could be enough voter fraud to change the […]

Big 12 Notebook

Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing Can Texas go on without Tucker? The Texas Longhorns were blasted with some bad news this past week when they learned that star forward P.J. Tucker is academically ineligible based on the fall semester and will not play again this season. Tucker led […]

Patriot League Notebook

Patriot League Notebook by Steve Sheridan Army FINALLY Wins A Division I Game Army has finally returned to legitimacy in the world of college basketball…okay, that may be a stretch, but the team did do something this weekend that it hadn’t done all season long. It took the Black Knights […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 26th Illinois Keeps Streaking: Illinois proved why the Illini are the undisputed No. 1 team in the nation by beating Wisconsin 75-65, ending the Badgers’ 38-game home-winning streak. The Illini won their 20th consecutive game, moving to 20-0. But it wasn’t easy. Illinois fell […]

Pittsburgh Regains Momentum

Panthers Regain Momentum by Phil Kasiecki STORRS, Conn. – Jamie Dixon and his team won’t tell you this, but they needed Saturday’s game. They got it, and the way they got it might be as important as the fact that they pulled out a 76-66 win in one of the […]

Ohio Valley Notebook

Ohio Valley Conference Notebook by Nathan Clinkenbeard Bulldogs Showing Bark Early No one believed in the Samford Bulldogs at the beginning of the season, evident by the Ohio Valley coaches and sports information directors picking them to finish 10th in a conference of 11 teams. However, six games into the […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 25th Orange Avoid Upset: Trailing 54-36 at the half, Syracuse stormed back to defeat Rutgers 86-84 in Piscataway, N.J. Gerry McNamara and Hakim Warrick finished with 21 points apiece for the Orange, which became the first team to reach 20 victories this season. Syracuse […]

Big South Notebook

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Halfcourt Heroics Saturday night proved to be an exciting night in Radford, Virginia as the Highlanders hosted High Point. After making a baseline jumper with about ten seconds remaining in overtime to put his team up by one, Radford junior guard Whit Holcomb-Faye […]

SoCon Notebook

Southern Conference Notebook by Jonathan Gonzalez After three consecutive close-but-no-cigar losses to Massachusetts, Seton Hall and Princeton, the Davidson Wildcats have run off six straight conference victories and are sitting pretty atop the Southern Conference’s Southern Division. Leading the charge for the Wildcats (11-7, 7-0) is Brendan Winters. The junior […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Monday, January 24th UW Huskies in NCAA Trouble?: Kevin Messick, the head trainer for all athletic programs at the University of Washington has been put on administrative leave. Barring an appeal, he will ultimately be fired for falsifying medical records to give an athlete an extra […]