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RTC Conference Primers: #5 – Southeastern Conference

Brian Goodman — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:29:32 +0000

Jared Quillen of BigBlueCats.com is the RTC correspondent for the Southeastern Conference.

Predicted Order of Finish

SEC East

T1. Florida (11-5) T1. Kentucky (11-5) T1. Georgia (11-5) 2. Tennessee (10-6) 3. Vanderbilt (7-9) 4. South Carolina (4-12)

SEC West

1. Mississippi State (12-4) 2. Mississippi (9-7) T3. Alabama (7-9) T3. Arkansas (7-9) 4. LSU (4-12) 5. Auburn (3-13)

All-Conference Team

G Brandon Knight – Kentucky G Chris Warren – Mississippi G Kenny Boynton – Florida F Enes Kanter* – Kentucky (if eligible) F Trey Thompkins – Georgia

6th Man

Travis Leslie – Georgia

Impact Newcomers

G Brandon Knight – Kentucky G Gerald Robinson – Georgia F Patric Young – Florida F Tobias Harris – Tennessee C Renardo Sidney – Mississippi State

Kentucky's Brandon Knight was a hot commodity as a late signee.

What You Need To Know

There are a few things [...]

SEC Media Notes: 06.29.10

nvr1983 — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:03:27 +0000

As part of our attempt to continue to provide you with the best independent college basketball information on the Internet we will periodically bring you information from conference media calls. Today’s entry comes from the SEC, which amazingly was not affected what could have been a massive conference shake-up.

Ed. Note: The conference call actually took place on Monday, but I had an ophthalmologist appointment and I’m pretty sure that they used just about the entire bottle of eye drops to dilate my eyes so I’m just starting to see straight again. The below entries are my some [...]

2010 NBA Draft Winners and Losers

zhayes9 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:51:45 +0000

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

Now that the Draft is complete, time to look back at Thursday night’s winners and losers, from coaches to NBA teams to players to conferences and everything in between:

Paul George saw his stock skyrocket all the way to #10 and the Pacers, Al Bello/Getty Images

Winners:

Big 12 – One of the premier college basketball conferences has gained quite a surge of momentum in the last few weeks. Big 12 commish Dan Beebe convinced Texas it was in their best [...]

Let The Madness Begin

nvr1983 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:05:05 +0000

All season long we have heard about how this year did not feature a “dominant team” and this was the “weakest bubble ever”, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a great tournament, which may be off the greatest start to a NCAA Tournament ever. While I’m not usually one prone to hyperbole, I can confidently say that I am having a hard time thinking of an opening set of games that can compare with this year. So far we have had the following things happen today:

Double-overtime thriller between BYU and UF where Jimmer Fredette (37 points) [...]

San Jose Pod Daily Diary: 03.18.10 Edition

rtmsf — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:54:42 +0000

Greetings, everyone, from beautiful San Jose, California. It’s a 75-degree outside the building, but nobody cares about that because it’s time for March Madness, and already across the country today, the games have been insane. Is there any other sporting event in the world that is so consistently awesome on a year-to-year basis? I’m going to be updating this diary by the half so as to accord with NCAA policies. Let me know if you have anything you’d like to know in the comments.

Game 1: #4 Vanderbilt vs. #13 Murray State

1st Half

What a [...]

First Round Game Analysis: Thursday Afternoon

rtmsf — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:23:29 +0000

Over the next two days in a series of separate posts, RTC will break down all 32 of the first round games using our best analytical efforts to understand these teams, the matchups and their individual strengths and weaknesses. Our hope is that you’ll let us know in the comments where you agree, disagree or otherwise think we’ve lost our collective minds. Here are the Thursday afternoon games.

Thursday, March 18 (all times ET)

12:20 pm – #7 BYU vs. #10 Florida (Oklahoma City pod)

The NCAA Tournament kicks off in style this year with a [...]

ATB: Magic in Rupp

rtmsf — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:58:11 +0000

A Little Magic in Rupp Tonight

The Rematch. Kentucky 82, South Carolina 61. In the locker room before the game, John Calipari told his team, “Guys, before we start, here, I got a recruit here we want to talk to, so make sure you introduce yourself to the recruit.” A moment later, into the locker room walked…Earvin “Magic” Johnson. And honestly, that was about the only unexpected thing that happened this evening at Rupp Arena. To be sure, this looked pretty similar to the South Carolina squad that has ownership of the only bruise on [...]

(Elite) Eight Tuesday Scribbles…

zhayes9 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:12:07 +0000

RTC contributor and bracketologist Zach Hayes will deliver permeating thoughts every week as the season progresses.

This week’s Scribbles column will take on a new twist- which eight teams I’d select to reach the four regional final games in late March. Now, I realize individual matchups within the bracket will determine the fate of these teams, but these are the eight clubs I feel like have an excellent chance of winning three games to reach the Elite 8 regardless of the teams that stand in their way. Some of these teams are the favorites, those expected to reach this [...]

Checking in on… the SEC

rtmsf — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:51:15 +0000

EAST

Kentucky 22-1 (7-1) Tennessee 18-4 (6-2) Vanderbilt 17-5 (6-2) Florida 17-6 (6-3) South Carolina 13-9 (4-4) Georgia 10-11 (2-6)

WEST

Arkansas 12-11 (5-3) Mississippi 17-6 (5-4) Mississippi State 16-7 (4-4) Alabama 13-10 (3-6) Auburn 11-12 (2-6) LSU 9-14 (0-9)

Thanks to Villanova’s loss, Kentucky inched nearer the top of the polls again, moving to #2 in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 and #3 in the AP Top 25. Tennessee moved up a couple of spots to #12 in both polls, while Vanderbilt fell to #22 in the AP and #24 in the ESPN/USA Today poll. Mississippi and Florida are still getting votes, but the SEC is looking like a three-team race in [...]

ATB: Blowout Weekend

rtmsf — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:53:18 +0000

Blowout Weekend. On paper, it looked to be a dog of a weekend, and for the most part it turned out that way. Among nearly 150 games, you’re bound to find some good ones, but among the Top 25 there were twelve games where the favorite won by 10+ points and of the six “upsets” involving ranked teams, even three of those were blowouts the other direction. Maybe everyone knew that the sports world’s focus would be on the Super Bowl, so they figured they’d save some drama for the rest of the month. Whatever the case, we’re [...]

Set Your Tivo: 01.30.10

THager — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:43:34 +0000

***** – quit your job and divorce your wife if that’s what it takes to watch this game live **** – best watched live, but if you must, tivo and watch it tonight as soon as you get home *** – set your tivo but make sure you watch it later ** – set your tivo but we’ll forgive you if it stays in the queue until 2012 * – don’t waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo’s) of any kind on this game

#7 Duke @ #11 Georgetown 1:00 CBS (****)

Duke Will [...]

Boom Goes The Dynamite: Wednesday 1.13.10 Edition

jstevrtc — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

There are some REALLY good games on tonight and many of them will be somewhere on the tube, so we figured tonight we’d step up with a special edition of our weekend live-blogging feature. To start off, we’ll be checking on Boston College at Duke (ESPN), Pittsburgh at Connecticut (ESPN2), and Cincinnati at St. John’s (ESPN-U), and we’ll branch out to other networks as well throughout the night. We want to know what you’re watching, as well. Keep hitting that refresh button and we’ll see you in the comments section. It’ll all start off momentarily…

7:03 pm [...]

Checking in on… the SEC

rtmsf — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:55:43 +0000

Paul Jordan of Wildcat Blue Blog is the RTC correspondent for the Southeastern Conference.

STANDINGS

EAST

Kentucky 15-0 Tennessee 10-2 Florida 11-3 Vanderbilt 11-3 South Carolina 8-5 Georgia 7-5

WEST

Mississippi State 12-3 Mississippi 11-2 Alabama 10-4 LSU 9-5 Auburn 8-6 Arkansas 7-7

NEWS & NOTES

The big story in the SEC this week was the arrest and indefinite suspension of four Tennessee basketball players — Tyler Smith, Melvin Goins, Cameron Tatum and Brian Williams. The group was arrested on a myriad of drug and weapon charges. Some of the charges were felonies, and given the recent problems with UT’s football program, it is hard to imagine any scenario in which the players may step back on the court this season. It is [...]

RTC Live: Vanderbilt @ St. Mary’s

rtmsf — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:18:53 +0000

Vanderbilt, a pre-season favorite along with Kentucky and Tennessee in the SEC’s Eastern Division, takes on 2-0 Saint Mary’s at 8:30 p.m. Pacific time tonight in the ultimate hostile environment — the Gaels’ bandbox gym in Moraga, CA. New Mexico State and San Diego State have already fallen to the Gaels by an average margin of 27 points in Moraga, so the Commodores have their work cut out for them. The game features a head-to-head showdown between two of the best big men in the country, the Commodores’ 6-11 junior A.J. Ogilvy and the Gaels’ 6-11 senior Omar Samhan. Join [...]

RTC 2009-10 Impact Players – Wrap-Up

rtmsf — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:02:32 +0000

Over the course of the last ten weeks we’ve broken down sixty players from around the country whom we expect will have the biggest impact on college basketball this season. We performed this exercise geographically, choosing five high-major and one mid-major player from each of the somewhat arbitrary ten regions of the country. If you’d like to read through the individual regions (and we highly encourage that), you can check all ten here.

If you don’t have the time or inclination to read through all of the previous posts, we’ll summarize here for you by [...]