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Set Your DVR: Weekend Edition

bmulvihill — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:01:40 +0000

Brendon Mulvihill is an RTC contributor. You can find him @TheMulv on Twitter. See bottom of the post for the Official RTC Star System.

College football is officially in the books and that means college hoops takes center stage. It’s going to be a great weekend of action highlighted by two Big Ten showdowns and an ACC battle that will shape the national picture. Good luck deciding which game you are going to watch at 12:00 PM EST tomorrow. Let’s get to the breakdowns.

#1 Duke at #21 North Carolina State – 12:00 PM EST, Saturday on ESPN (*****)

With the injury to [...]

Boom Goes The Dynamite: ESPN’s 24 Hours Of Hoops Marathon 2010

jstevrtc — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:56:59 +0000

PUT. THAT COFFEE. DOWN.

For the third year in a row, ESPN is bringing us what we consider one of the great television events on the sports television calendar, the 24 Hours of Hoops Marathon. That means that for the third year in a row, I’ll be live-blogging the whole thing from start to finish — and this year, we’re climbing this hoops blogger’s Everest without supplemental oxygen. That is to say…I’m going caffeine-free. More importantly, here is the schedule of games for this year’s marathon (all times Eastern):

12:00 midnight — Miami (FL) at Memphis (ESPN) 2:00 [...]

ATB: Heytvelt Back on the Shelf

rtmsf — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:30:55 +0000

11.11.07

Story of the Night. Our preseason F4 picks are UNC, UCLA, Indiana and Gonzaga, so it’s no surprise that we really like the Zags this season. Imagine our own surprise, however, when we learned just before tipoff of today’s #16 Gonzaga-Montana game that Josh Heytvelt will miss the next 4-6 weeks with a stress fracture in his foot. Given what we know about these sorts of things, we wonder just how effective he’ll be when he gets back. Obviously, without Heytvelt, the Zags have no chance to [...]

Conference Primers: Single Bid Conference Recap

rtmsf — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:20:14 +0000

So we figure we’ll be done with these conference primers by Christmas 2008 Thanksgiving, which is about the time most people start keeping an eye on college hoops anyway. In the meantime, we thought we’d take a moment to recap the seventeen single bid conferences we’ve already reviewed. Keep in mind, our definition of a single bid league is a conference that does not regularly compete for multiple NCAA bids (even if they occasionally get multiple bids).

31. SWAC 30. MEAC 29. Northeast 28. Atlantic Sun 27. Ohio Valley 26. Southland 25. America East 24. Big South 23. MAAC 22. Ivy 21. Patriot 20. Sun Belt 19. Big Sky 18. Summit 17. Southern 16. [...]

Conference Primers: #16 – Big West

rtmsf — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:36:04 +0000

Predicted Order of Finish:

UC Santa Barbara (21-8) (12-4) Cal Poly (17-13) (11-5) Cal St. Fullerton (18-8) (11-5) Pacific (17-13) (10-6) UC Irvine (12-15) (8-8) Long Beach St. (10-16) (7-9) Cal St. Northridge (11-16) (6-10) UC Riverside (7-20) (4-12) UC Davis (5-25) (3-13)

WYN2K. As we continue our ascent up the conference ladder, we once again come to a league where the top clearly consists of mid-major quality programs, but the bottom of the conference weighs it down as a whole and keeps it from becoming a consistent multiple bid performer. As might be expected for a middling league, the Big West has split its OOC [...]

Analyzing the Wooden Candidates

rtmsf — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:58:17 +0000

Who will be this year’s Wooden Award Winner?

This afternoon the 2007-08 Wooden Award candidates were released to the public. The top 50 vote-getters (who gets to vote for this anyway – is the Wizard of Westwood sitting in his apt filling out ballots?) are listed below (organized by conference, then by team):

Quick ruminations:

Conference Rundown: Pac-10 (10), Big East (8), ACC (7), Big 12 (6), SEC (5), Big 10 (2), Mid-Majors + Low Majors (12). We like the love thrown to the non-BCS leagues – nearly a quarter of the selections are from eleven other leagues. It’s no surprise the [...]