08-09 – Rush The Court

RTC Live NCAA East Region: #6 UCLA at #3 Villanova

nvr1983 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:17:30 +0000

Rush the Court is pleased to have our East Region correspondent Dave Zeitlin courtside at the NCAA East Region in Philadelphia for Thursday and Saturday’s games. He will be live-blogging the first game of the day (#6 UCLA at #3 Villanova) to kick off the 2nd round. And yes we did mean to say “at”. We don’t consider it a “neutral site” game when one team (UCLA) has to travel ~2700 miles to the game and the other team (Villanova) has to travel 12 miles from its campus to get to the arena. Dave will be starting around [...]

RTC Live NCAA East Region: #8 BYU vs. #9 Texas A&M

rtmsf — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:07:02 +0000

Rush the Court is pleased to have our East Region correspondent Dave Zeitlin onsite at the NCAA East Region in Philadelphia for Thursday and Saturday’s games. He will be live-blogging the first game of the afternoon, #8 BYU vs. #9 Texas A&M, to kick off what will be another phenomenal tournament weekend. Depending on the matchups, Dave will be back here on Saturday live-blogging one of the two second round games as well. Please stop by and leave your comments and follow along if [...]

RTC Live: Selection Sunday Shows

rtmsf — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:09:49 +0000

Join RTC Live tomorrow at 6pm EDT where we will be live-blogging the CBS and ESPN Selection Shows for as long as they’re interesting. Want to vent because Mike Slive managed to find a way to get three SEC teams in? Feel free. Having trouble understanding how Memphis could possibly earn a #1 seed over UConn. This is your place. We hope to see you there tomorrow. After all, you never know who might be watching.

NCAA Selection Shows

RTC Live: WAC Tournament

rtmsf — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:51:58 +0000

3/14 Update. Crazy night in Reno last night – here’s our wrapup on the semis, and whatever you do, don’t offer the mascot $100 to attack the other mascot. Stay safe out there, Nevadans! Should be a great environment there tonight.

Utah State Aggies vs. Nevada Wolf Pack

3/13 Update: here’s the live-blog for tonight’s WAC semifinal between Utah St. and New Mexico St., with the second semifinal between Louisiana Tech and the homestanding Nevada following it.

Utah State Aggies vs. New Mexico State Aggies

Nevada Wolf Pack vs. Louisiana Tech Bulldogs

Hello WAC fans, [...]

RTC Live: Horizon League Tournament Finals

rtmsf — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:14:49 +0000

Hello Horizon League fans, and welcome to RTC Live’s coverage of the Horizon League Tournament Finals from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our correspondent, Damon Lewis from the Horizon League Network, will be live-blogging and reporting from Hinkle Fieldhouse Tuesday night for the title game between Butler and Cleveland St. Feel free to stop by and leave your questions and comments for him as Butler goes for its second straight HL title.

Horizon League Championship – Butler vs. Cleveland State – Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indianapolis

RTC Aftermath: WCC Tournament Finals

rtmsf — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:49:20 +0000

RTC Aftermath will come to you each night where our correspondents are at the conference tournament games as a part of RTC Live. Michael Vernetti is in Las Vegas all weekend covering the WCC Tournament for RTC. RTC Live was onsite Friday through Monday, concluding tonight in the Gonzaga vs. St. Mary’s Championship Game.

It was a Gonzaga party in the WCC championship game as the Zags continued a tournament blitz with an 83-58 victory over Saint Mary’s. Gonzaga featured balanced scoring with five players scoring in double figures, led by Josh Heytvelt’s 17 points. Matt Bouldin [...]

RTC Aftermath: WCC Semifinals

rtmsf — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:52:22 +0000

RTC Aftermath will come to you each night where our correspondents are at the conference tournament games as a part of RTC Live. Michael Vernetti is in Las Vegas all weekend covering the WCC Tournament for RTC. RTC Live will be there on Monday night as Gonzaga-St. Mary’s Part III occurs.

Gonzaga had five players in double figures – led by Austin Daye’s 28 points – to crush Santa Clara 94-59 in tonight’s first semifinal game of the West Coast Conference tournament. The Zags got 18 from Micah Downs, 16 from Jeremy Pargo, 12 from Steven Gray [...]

RTC Aftermath: MVC Finals

rtmsf — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:00:25 +0000

RTC Aftermath will come to you each night where our correspondents are at the conference tournament games as a part of RTC Live. Patrick Marshall was in St. Louis all weekend covering the MVC Tournament for RTC.

First off, I would like to apologize to Rush the Court and Rush the Court fans that due to a family issue, we were not able to do an RTC Live event for the Missouri Valley Conference Final as expected.

UNI: MVC Champs (photo credit: WCFCourier.com)

Northern Iowa is the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament champion and [...]

RTC Aftermath: CAA Quarterfinals

rtmsf — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:19:06 +0000

Ryan Kish liveblogged the ODU-Hofstra game today, although the Richmond Arena is having technical issues with their wifi access, so we’re not sure if we’ll get another chance to liveblog tomorrow. If things are working ok, we’ll havee the VCU-ODU game for you at 3pm EST.

Quarterfinals

VCU 61 Georgia State 52. VCU got a little sloppy in this one but Eric Maynor did what he had to do to get the Rams the victory. ODU will be a difficult match up for them. Old Dominion 52, Hofstra 51. Gerald Lee had an MVP performance dropping 30, but Hofstra [...]

RTC Aftermath: MVC Semifinals

nvr1983 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:47:44 +0000

RTC Aftermath will come to you each night where our correspondents are at the conference tournament games as a part of RTC Live. Patrick Marshall is in St. Louis all weekend covering the MVC Tournament for RTC.

RTC Live Aftermath—Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, March 7, 2009

Today’s Missouri Valley Conference tournament game between Creighton and Illinois State was covered by Rush the Court. Illinois State dominated Creighton from the start and won 73-49 to advance to the finals of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

Tournament officials decided to do something a little different than [...]

RTC Aftermath: WCC Opening Round

rtmsf — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:44:14 +0000

San Diego, riding strong performances from its front court tandem of Gyno Pomare (18 points) and Roberto Mafra (14 points) toppled Loyola 62-56 to move into tomorrow’s quarterfinal game with Santa Clara. Mafra, notching his career high, and Pomare teamed up to overshadow a strong performance by Loyola freshman Kevin Young, who scored a career-high 20 points and grabbed eight [...]

RTC Aftermath: MVC Quarterfinals

rtmsf — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:14:10 +0000

Today you experienced our live blog of the Bradley-Southern Illinois game in the quarterfinal round of the MVC tournament. This game was up and down for both teams. Both teams were ready to go:

Bradley won this game by hitting timely shots and wearing out the Salukis. The Salukis shot only 35% from [...]

RTC Live: CAA Tournament

rtmsf — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:12:23 +0000

Hello CAA fans, and welcome to RTC Live’s ongoing coverage of the CAA Tournament from Richmond, Virginia. Our correspondent, Ryan Kish from George Mason Basketball, will be live-blogging and reporting from the Richmond Coliseum throughout the weekend. If there’s any news that the fans need to be apprised of from Richmond, Kish will be all over it. The Tournament begins Friday afternoon with four first round games, so he has already published his CAA Tourney Preview for your viewing pleasure.

We’ll also be live-blogging select games throughout the weekend, starting Saturday afternoon with the quarterfinal matchup between Hofstra and Old [...]

RTC Live: WCC Tournament

rtmsf — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:53:18 +0000

Update (3/9): There’s no question which games RTC Live will be covering tonight, because the Championship game will feature the matchup everyone was hoping for – Gonzaga vs. St. Mary’s. Check back with us at 6pm PDT for Michael Vernetti’s liveblog from the sidelines at the Orleans Arena for this blockbuster matchup.

RTC Live: Gonzaga vs. St. Mary’s

Update (3/8): Tonight’s RTC Live will be Gonzaga vs. Santa Clara. Let’s cross our fingers that the connectivity issues won’t be a problem again tonight. See you then!

RTC Live: Gonzaga vs. Santa Clara

Update (3/7): San Diego held on [...]

RTC Live: Arch Madness (MVC Tournament)

rtmsf — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:54:04 +0000

Update (3/7). Oops. Our MVC correspondent will be unavailable on Sunday, so we regret to inform you that RTC Live will not be covering the MVC Championship Game. Thank you for those of you who checked in with us the last two days, and we hope to see you again soon.

Update (3/6). RTC Live will be back Saturday with one of the two semifinal matchups. Come back this evening to vote on which game you’d like to see us liveblog. We already know the first matchup is N. Iowa vs. Bradley. Who will be [...]