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Big East Big Five: Week 4
After featuring the Big East-SEC Challenge in last week's Big Five, the Big East won the Challenge easily, 8-4. This made me wonder: What is the Big East's record in games that have been featured in the Big Five overall? With 15 games played, it turns out the Big East is 7-8. Losses to Mizzou,...
Big East Big Five: Week 2
This seemed to work out pretty well last week, so we return this week to provide you a tipoff to the best five Big East games getting tipped off between now and Sunday. As always, all times are Central. Monday, November 21: Notre Dame vs #24/#25 Missouri (6:30pm, ESPN2) - Tim Abromaitis returns...
BRACKET BLOG: East Region
This is the final BRACKET BLOG for the so-called second round, and with it comes one last admonishment/exhortation to join the BOTC Bracket Challenge here before the 11 a.m. deadline today. The group ID is 104278 and the password is FearTheBeard. And for some last-minute sage advice to help you...
TOURNEY WATCH: 3/16/2011
Oklahoma State started its NIT run with a resounding bang, posting a dominant 71-54 home win over Ivy league darling Harvard on Tuesday night. Marshall Moses scored 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds. That's certainly better than the performance the Cowboys delivered in Travis Ford's inaugural...
Penn State Lacrosse: Upgraded
Penn State hired a new lacrosse coach to replace long-time caretaker Glenn Thiel. It's part of an interesting flight of coaches from Ivy League schools. Jeff Tambroni leaves Cornell for State College; other coaches made moves from Harvard to Maryland, Penn to Drexel, and probably most shocking:...
Strictly Come Dancing: Princeton, Ivy League
Who? The Tigers of Princeton. Where? Princeton, New Jersey, a picturesque town on its own branch of NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor line. When? About 8PM on Saturday the 6th. How? By beating Harvard for a season sweep of the second-place team in the conference. Upset? By definition, no; the Ivy...
BtB 2009-10 Ivy League Preview
It was a relatively quiet offseason in the Ivy League, the lone Division I conference that forgoes a postseason tournament and sends its regular season winner to the NCAA Tournament. Cornell begins this season in great position to cement itself as the league's new dynasty. (Well, as...
11/9/2007 Basketball Preview
Here is the first full slate of games for the MWC and most teams are in action this Friday. The one thing that does bother me is that none of the games are shown on TV, but there are some on an internet feed. For the season opener one would think that the Mountain West Sports Network or CSTV...
The 2009 Banana Peel List, Part I
Now that it's less than a month until Selection Sunday, we're slightly overdue to review the races in 22 of the 23 conferences that can will probably only receive one bid to this year's tournament. The 23rd is Memphis (or FedEx U, based on this story) and the 11 Dwarves, and since that race is...
Where Will the Arizona State Game Rank Among Cross-Sectional Contests?
With the start of the season only a week away, the hearts and minds of Bulldog Nation now are wholly consumed with thoughts of football, and there is no early outing to which fans more anxiously are looking forward than the September 20 tilt with Arizona State. Fans are posting pictures of...
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