2010-11 Season Preview – Rush The Court

2010-11 RTC Season Preview: Complete Overview

nvr1983 — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:31:43 +0000

Some of you may have noticed that we at RTC have been pretty busy getting lately. For those of you who have been keeping up to date on everything happening at RTC we would like to thank you. For those slackers who like to procrastinate in getting ready for the season (and you know who you are), we have put together this not-so-brief but comprehensive guide to get you ready for the season.

The RTC Top 25: Hard to pick against Duke this year, as all five of our voters were in agreement that Coach [...]

Tweeting the Preview: #20 – #1

rtmsf — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:24:01 +0000

We’re back with the second consecutive year of officially losing our minds, but they say the first step toward healing is recognizing the problem. As of 11 am EDT last Monday, there were 345 hours until tipoff of four games of actual, it-counts college basketball on Opening Night, Nov. 8. So… beginning that morning, we started releasing our rankings of every Division I team [...]

RTC Top 25: Preseason Edition

zhayes9 — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:14:30 +0000

It took 345 hours but we just wrapped up our second annual Tweeting the Preview series, and unsurprisingly, Duke is the choice for everyone here at RTC to repeat as national champions. In the interest of transparency, we’ll be publishing our Top 25 each Monday with the editors’ ballots attached so that if you’re wondering how on earth your favorite team could be ranked so low, you’ll know exactly who is responsible. This will also be the official RTC ballot that we submit each week to the Blogpoll folks, assuming someone [...]

RTC 2010-11 Impact Players: National Wrap-Up

rtmsf — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:56:30 +0000

Over the past month-plus, we’ve been presenting our RTC Impact Players for the 2010-11 season. From coast to coast and the Canadian border down to Mexico, we’ve selected the sixty players nationally who we believe will have the most impact on the game this year. Each of the ten geographic regions was allotted five “starters” and a “sixth man,” an artificial construct that was easy to fill in some areas while much more difficult in some of the others. In case you’ve missed the series along the way, this post will serve as your wrap-up. We’re rank-ordering the [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #1 – Big Ten

Brian Goodman — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:04:26 +0000

John Templon of Chicago College Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Big Ten Conference.

Predicted Order of Finish

1. Michigan State (15-3) 2. Ohio State (13-5) 3. Illinois (12-6) 4. Wisconsin (11-7) T5. Purdue (9-9) T5. Minnesota (9-9) T5. Northwestern (9-9) 8. Penn State (7-11) 9. Indiana (6-12) 10. Michigan (5-13) 11. Iowa (3-15)

All-Conference Team (key stats from last season in parentheses)

G: Demetri McCamey, Illinois (15.1 PPG, 6.8 APG) G: Kalin Lucas, Michigan State (14.9 PPG, 3.9 APG) F: Jon Leuer, Wisconsin (15.4 PPG, 5.8 RPG) F: John Shurna, Northwestern (18.3 PPG, 6.4 RPG) C: JaJuan Johnson, Purdue (15.2 PPG, 7.1 RPG)

6th Man

G: E’Twaun Moore, Purdue (16.6 PPG, 3.7 RPG)

Where 2010-11 Happens: Reason #1 Why We Love College Basketball

rtmsf — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:05:56 +0000

Shamelessly cribbing from the clever NBA catch phrase, we here at RTC will present you with the 2010-11 edition of Thirty Reasons We Love College Basketball as we ramp up to the start of the season a little over a month from now. We’ll be bringing you players to watch for this season and moments to remember from last season, courtesy of the series of dump trucks, wires and effluvia known as YouTube. If you want to have some fun while killing time, we encourage you to re-visit [...]

Tweeting the Preview: #44 – #21

rtmsf — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:23:55 +0000

ESPN Full Court Schedule – 480 Games of Delicious Goodness

rtmsf — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:58:41 +0000

Once again this year we’ve been inundated with requests for our annual release and analysis of ESPN’s Full Court Schedule, which for some reason the WWL makes very difficult to find and use every year. You’d think that if they want us to pay $104 for this product, they’d make it considerably easier to know exactly what we were buying. Alas. Keep in mind that according to ESPN every one of these games is simulcast for free on ESPN3.com (previously ESPN360), so the decision point on whether to spend the hundy probably comes down to whether [...]

Tweeting the Preview: #68 – #45

rtmsf — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:01:29 +0000

Ten Burning Questions On The 2010-11 Season

zhayes9 — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:38:25 +0000

Zach Hayes is an editor, contributor and bracketologist for Rush the Court.

With the season tipping off on Monday, there’s a few questions rolling around the minds of college basketball fans regarding the upcoming season. Let’s tackle the ten most pressing questions, from Duke’s expected dominance to a battle at the top of the Big East and one special freshman:

It's prudent Johnson does even more with Hummel out

1. What’s Purdue’s season outlook without Robbie Hummel?

Purdue fans don’t need to read another rehash of Hummel tearing his ACL [...]

Tweeting the Preview: #92 – #69

rtmsf — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:03:32 +0000

Frosh Watch: Preseason Edition

rtmsf — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:27:53 +0000

David Ely is an RTC contributor.

Welcome to Frosh Watch! With college basketball becoming more and more an underclassman’s game it’s imperative that we keep tabs on just who is living up to his potential and who is struggling to adjust to the college game. Is Harrison Barnes really the answer to all of UNC’s problems? Does Kyrie Irving make Duke even better? Will Kentucky’s Enes Kanter ever get to play? What about Tony Mitchell over at Missouri? Those questions — and many more — will all be answered eventually. But that’s a job for another week. First we [...]

RTC Conference Primer: #2 – Big East

Brian Goodman — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:13:37 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin’ is a Habit is the Big East correspondent for Rush The Court.

Predicted Order of Finish

1. Villanova (15-3) T2. Pittsburgh (14-4) T2. Syracuse (14-4) 4. Georgetown (12-6) T5. West Virginia (11-7) T5. Marquette (11-7) 7. Seton Hall (10-8) T8. Notre Dame (9-9) T8. St. John’s (9-9) T10. Connecticut (8-10) T10. Louisville (8-10) T12. South Florida (7-11) T12. Cincinnati (7-11) T14. Providence (3-15) T14. Rutgers (3-15) T14. DePaul (3-15)

All-Conference Team (key stats from last season in parentheses)

G: Corey Fisher, Villanova (13.3 ppg, 3.9 apg, 2.8 rpg) G: Kemba Walker, UConn (14.6 ppg, 5.1 apg, 4.3 rpg, 2.1 spg) F: Austin Freeman, Georgetown (16.5 ppg, 3.5 [...]

Where 2010-11 Happens: Reason #2 Why We Love College Basketball

rtmsf — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:05:54 +0000

Tweeting the Preview: #116 – #93

rtmsf — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:54:35 +0000