2008 Early Entry Winners and Losers
Whew. After an exhausting day trying to track the news feeds seemingly every minute to figure out who was staying and who was leaving college, we can finally take a deep breath and start to sort out...
View Article2008-09 Conference Primers: #8 – Conference USA
Predicted Order of Finish: Memphis (34-1, 16-0) UAB (26-9, 12-4) Tulsa (22-13, 11-5) UTEP (21-12, 10-6) Houston (20-13, 9-7) Southern Miss (19-15, 9-7) Marshall (18-15, 8-8) UCF (17-16, 8-8)...
View ArticleESPN Marathon of Hoops Live Blog
11/17/08 11:45pm ET – Greetings, fellow hoop lovers, and welcome to the ESPN 24-hour Marathon of Hoops Rush The Court live blog. John Stevens, here, ready to truly kick off the college hoops season in...
View ArticleATB: Weekend Wrap
Forget the BCS. None of the big college football matchups this weekend were worth your time – Texas Tech/Oklahoma: blowout; Ohio St/Michigan: blowout; Penn St/Michigan St: blowout; Utah/BYU: blowout –...
View ArticleChecking in on… Conference USA
Allen R of Houston Basketball Junkies is the RTC correspondent for Conference USA. The week of final examinations usually equates to a slow basketball week and Conference USA is no exception to the...
View ArticleBoom Goes the Dynamite: 01.24.09
After my trip to Chapel Hill last weekend where rtmsf handled all of the duties for Boom Goes the Dynamite while I mingled with ESPN personalities and college basketball stars, I will be in charge of...
View ArticleChecking in on… Conference USA
Allen R of Houston Basketball Junkies is the RTC correspondent for Conference USA. Conference Standings. Memphis: 20-3 (8-0) Tulsa: 17-7 (7-2) UAB: 16-8 (6-3) Houston: 14-7 (5-3) UCF: 15-8...
View ArticleConference USA Wrapup & Tourney Preview
Memphis passed its last regular season road test and now only has a few games to go to return to the “promised land” that they’ve never really left. While the Tigers’ dominance over the rest of CUSA is...
View Article27 Down, 38 To Go…
There are twelve automatic bids today, so we’ll be updating these as the day moves forward… #16 – Binghamton (23-8, 16-3 Am East). Binghamton took care of business today against upstart UMBC to win...
View ArticleNCAA Basketball 2009: The BCS Version
With the release of the brackets on Sunday evening there has been quite a bit of controversy (Arizona over St. Mary’s being the predominant gripe) and there have been some interesting moments with Jay...
View ArticleNCAA Sweet Sixteen: West Region Preview
Ryan ZumMallen of LBPostSports is our NCAA Tournament West Region correspondent. Welcome to the Mild, Mild West, which saw a grand total of three upsets in the opening twelve games, and whose...
View ArticleCalipari to Kentucky
After a weekend full of speculation about who would replace Billy Gillispie as the next head coach at Kentucky it looks like we finally have our answer in the form of John Calipari. Our sources had...
View ArticleMemphis Responds… and Guess What, Everything Was a Big Misunderstanding!
Memphis responded to the NCAA’s allegations against their basketball program, and surprise of all surprises, the UM athletic department doesn’t believe that it should be punished even if the NCAA...
View ArticleQuestionable Test Scores Piling Up At Memphis
As we mentioned in an update to yesterday’s column about how Memphis was handling Derrick Rose‘s questionable test scores, more reports of questionable test scores out of Memphis are surfacing. As Gary...
View ArticleTeam of the 2000s: #8 – Memphis
Ed. Note: check the category team of the 2000s for our other entries in this feature. We already know that this selection is going to cause some consternation among teams that weren’t selected as...
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