Morning Five: The National Holiday Edition
We have tried to go easy on the NCAA Tournament links in our Morning Five this week, but we cannot contain ourselves any more because it is here. It is finally here. We all love every game of college...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 03.21.12 Edition
The news just keeps getting worse for Arizona State and Herb Sendek, as on Tuesday it was announced that leading scorer Trent Lockett had asked for a release from his scholarship in order to transfer...
View ArticleSurprising Michigan Departures Raise Questions About Next Season
For Michigan basketball fans, the NCAA Tournament loss stunk. There’s no getting around that. But the hope for the future was legitimate and tangible, given a strong recruiting class and a returning...
View ArticleACC Morning Five: 04.03.12 Edition
Hampton Roads Daily Press: Speaking of tall lanky game-changers in college basketball, Ralph Sampson finally was elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame. You can blame the delay on his injury-laden NBA...
View ArticleTrey Zeigler Is Heading To Pittsburgh
One of the problems with package deals is that sometimes when you let go of the bait you also lose the fish you lured in. Central Michigan found this out when they fired Ernie Zeigler last month and...
View ArticleMorning Five: 04.09.12 Edition
Sometimes the coaching carousel is a strange creature. Later today, Trent Johnson will be announced as the next head coach at TCU. This would not be that notable except that Johnson is leaving LSU to...
View ArticleMost Impactful Incoming Transfers For Next Season
Evan Jacoby is a regular contributor for RTC. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter. As most of the top high school recruits have signed their letters of intent and the NBA Draft early entries finish...
View ArticleMorning Five: 05.28.12 Edition
On Friday the NCAA ruled that Central Michigan transfer Trey Zeigler would be able to play for Pittsburgh next season without having to sit out the usual one year. Citing historical precedent, Zeigler...
View ArticleBig East Summer Capsules: Pittsburgh Panthers
While most relish the onset of Summer, college basketball junkies do not. Most of the news surrounding the sport is recruiting rumors and commitments or injuries and transfer news. In order to help...
View Article2012-13 RTC Conference Primers: Mid-American Conference
Ethan Back is the MAC correspondent for RTC. Top Storylines Will Ohio Be Able to Reach the Sweet Sixteen Again? After an extremely successful season that ended in an overtime loss in the Sweet Sixteen...
View ArticleMorning Five: 11.27.12 Edition
The big news of the day was that Gorgui Dieng, Louisville’s anchor on the inside, would be out for 4-6 weeks with a fractured scaphoid. In the grand scheme of things it isn’t a huge setback for the...
View ArticleBig East M5: 12.05.12 Edition
St. John’s 81-65 loss on the road at San Francisco may have seemed like just another non-conference game in preparation for the Big East gauntlet which kicks off in early January. To Steve Lavin,...
View ArticleMorning Five: 04.03.13 Edition
It looks like the coaching carousel should be an opening in New Jersey pretty soon after video surfaced of Mike Rice berating players and throwing basketballs at them during several practices at...
View ArticleACC M5: 04.03.13 Edition
Baltimore Sun: And then there were none. The ACC’s 2012-13 season officially came to a close Tuesday night when Maryland lost to Iowa in the NIT semifinals. The bright lights at Madison Square Garden...
View ArticleSeason In Review: Pittsburgh Panthers
If you are one of those glass half-full type of people, then you could easily point out that a season which saw Pittsburgh finish 24-9 and 12-6 in the Big East is a giant step forward from the year...
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