Month: January 2005

Big 12 Notebook

Big 12 Conference Notebook by Zach Ewing A new Big 12 power The Big 12’s South division has been long dominant in football, especially this past season. Now those six teams in Oklahoma and Texas are trying to make it the same way this basketball season. Obviously, No. 2 Kansas’ […]

C-USA Notebook

Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Banks gone Sean Banks’ season is over. After starting slow this season and being suspended for one game for a poor attitude, Memphis announced on Sunday that Banks is academically ineligible for the remainder of the season. But head coach John Calipari sounded […]

America East Notebook

America East Notebook by Phil Kasiecki Coppenrath Reaches Milestone Vermont senior forward Taylor Coppenrath, who leads the nation in scoring, surpassed 2,000 career points on Wednesday against Stony Brook. Coppenrath became the second player in school history and ninth in the conference’s history to surpass 2,000 career points. He scored […]

Pac-10 Notebook

Pac-10 Conference Notebook by Scott Allen One week after several teams suffered their first loss of the conference season, USC picked up its first win against Arizona State. Meanwhile, the Pac-10’s other desert dwellers picked up a pair of wins and Stanford kept its momentum going with a win at […]

Big South Notebook

Big South Conference Notebook by Jeremy Dunlap Charleston Southern? Of all of the teams that one would have been picked to start the conference season 4-0, Charleston Southern would have probably been amongst the last taken. Not only did they finish in last place last year, but they lost at […]

Joe Crawford Situation

What Does It All Mean? by Matt Jones A famous rock philosopher (who looked really old Sunday night at the Golden Globes), once said… “You can’t always get what you want… but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.” With the news that freshman sensation Joe Crawford has […]

Big Ten Notebook

Big Ten Conference Notebook by John Sahly Conference play is under way in the Big 10. The nation’s No. 1 team, Illinois, is already looking to establish dominance among the contenders, with Michigan, No. 12 Michigan State and Wisconsin all looking to make moves this week. Badgers pass first test […]

Patriot League Notebook

Patriot League Notebook by Steve Sheridan Bison Cannot Be Stopped This just in: Bucknell is a good basketball team. After the team’s wins over Colgate and Army, the Bison have won nine straight games, the longest streak in the 11-year tenure of head coach Pat Flannery. Bucknell is ranked No. […]

Kyle Lowry’s Return

Amazing Return by Phil Kasiecki PHILADELPHIA – Kyle Lowry was supposed to be practicing right now with Villanova. That’s all – just practicing, not playing over 18 minutes per game for the Wildcats. “We never thought we were going to have Kyle Lowry,” head coach Jay Wright said. “He did […]

Big East Notebook

Big East Conference Notebook by Jesse Ullmann It was the last time to flood your non-conference schedule with walkovers. It was the last time each Big East school played so freely with its non-conference schedule that every team seemed destined to crack the Top 25. Big East teams were also […]