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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
St. Joseph’s Returns
Hawks Are Right There Once Again by Phil Kasiecki PHILADELPHIA – The 2004-05 media guide for St. Joseph’s has the words “In Transition” on the cover. This season isn’t supposed to be a carbon copy of the magical 2003-04 season, when the school was the talk of the country as […]
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The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 23rd The First Time Is Always the Hardest: Villanova rode hot three-point shooting and a big day from Allan Ray and Curtis Sumpter to an 83-62 rout of Kansas, handing the Jayhawks their first loss of the season. Ray scored 20 of his 27 […]
NCAA Crystal Ball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Michael Protos This week’s Crystal Ball reflects the shake-up within the ACC, Pittsburgh’s downward spiral, and the collapse of the Cavaliers. The cloudiest portion of this week’s Crystal Ball was the No. 1 seeds. The first two are easy: Illinois and Kansas are undefeated and […]
