Author: Scott Allen

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 4th Love Hurts: Duke senior forward Randy Love will undergo surgery today to repair a broken bone in his right foot. Love suffered the injury in the first half of Duke’s 62-54 victory against Clemson Sunday, which happened to be his first career start. […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 28th Red Storm Dealt Another Blow: St. John’s forward Rodney Epperson was suspended indefinitely Monday pending a review of his transfer from Barton County Community College in Kansas during the 2002-03 school year. The decision was made in the wake of the Dec. 14 […]

Morning Dish

The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 21st Majerus Sorry, USC Searching…Knight Interested?: Rick Majerus apologized to Southern California athletic director Mike Garrett for changing his mind after accepting the Trojans’ head coaching job last week. Majerus, who at the press conference announcing his hiring indicated that his health was not […]

Pac-10 Preview

Pac-10 Conference Season Preview by Scott Allen The Pacific-10 Conference won’t have much representation in the majority of preseason Top 25 polls and the pundits will predictably continue to call the Pac-10 one of the weakest major conferences in the land. Without fail, incensed fans at Arizona, Stanford and Washington […]

Pac-10 Offseason News

Pac-10 Conference 2004 Off-Season News Recap by Scott Allen Arizona State Junior Ike Diogu, the Pac-10’s leading scorer last season, has been named a Top 50 Wooden Award candidate. The Garland, Texas native could be in the running for the award given to the “Most Outstanding Collegiate Basketball Player of […]

WAC Offseason News

Pac-10 Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Scott Allen Rice, SMU, Tulsa and UTEP are leaving the WAC at the end of this season for Conference USA, with New Mexico State, Utah State and Idaho set to fill their vacancy. Reno will host the WAC tournament for the first time this […]

Pac-10 Season Recap

Pac-10 Conference 2003-04 Season Recap by Scott Allen While Arizona garnered most of the preseason national hype, Stanford emerged as the class of the conference with one of the most remarkable regular seasons in college basketball history. The Cardinal won its first 26 games and was on the verge of […]

PHX Sweet Sixteen Preview

Sweet Sixteen Preview – Phoenix Region by Scott Allen (5) Syracuse vs. (8) Alabama Some fans of the Orangemen and Crimson Tide undoubtedly took some time in the last few days to get a manicure after Syracuse and Alabama both survived a pair of nail-biters in the first two rounds […]

PHX Sweet Sixteen Recap

Sweet Sixteen Recap – Phoenix Region by Scott Allen (2) Connecticut 73, (6) Vanderbilt 53 Matt Freije needed to have the game of his life for the Commodores to pull off a second consecutive upset. Instead, he scored eight points on 3-for-18 shooting. It’s tough to hang the loss on […]

Pac-10 Finals Recap

Pac-10 Conference Finals Recap Recap by Scott Allen (1) Stanford 77, (2) Washington 66 The Cardinal avenged its only loss of the season to capture its first Pac-10 tournament title, likely assuring itself of being the No. 1 seed in the West region when the bracket is revealed later today. […]