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Big East Tourney Daily Diary: 1st Round

rtmsf — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:33:15 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit is spending the week as the RTC correspondent at the Big East Tournament. In addition to live-blogging select games throughout the tournament, he will post a nightly diary with his thoughts on each day’s action. Here is his submission on the First Round games.

South Florida 58, DePaul 49

South Florida looked really good in the first half. In the second half, a scrappy DePaul team started hitting some shots and made it somewhat exciting. But in the first half, USF looked absolutely dominant. They got just about whatever they wanted [...]

Checking in on… the Big East

rtmsf — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:03:51 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.

It has been a long time since there was a good college basketball team in the NYC metro area. Unless you consider Storrs, CT, in the NYC metro area.

This season was supposed to be different. Seton Hall had added transfers Herb Pope, Jamel Jackson, Jeff Robinson, and Keon Lawrence to a solid core. St. John’s was bringing everyone back, including one of the most underrated players in the league in DJ Kennedy. Rutgers lost Corey Chandler, but with Mike Rosario returning [...]

Checking in on… the Big East

rtmsf — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:57:09 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.

Here we are on the brink of Big East play. What does that mean? MID-SEASON AWARD TIME!!!

Co-Players of the Year: Da’Sean Butler, West Virginia and Wes Johnson, Syracuse

Depending on who you ask, these two are in the mix for the national player of the year. Butler (16.5 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 3.8 apg) has been the best player for West Virginia, even sliding over and playing some point guard in the past few games as Joe Mazzulla works [...]

Morning Five: 12.17.09 Edition

rtmsf — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:37:05 +0000

St. John’s will hold out star forward Anthony Mason, Jr., for at least three more weeks as he continues to heal from a preseason hamstring injury. The Johnnies have gotten off to an 8-1 start that includes solid wins against Siena and Temple. SJU should be ok for another two weeks without him, but away games loom against Georgetown and Louisville right around the new year. In other news, reserve Quincy Roberts will also take a medical redshirt due to recurring migraine headaches. Remember Josh Nochimson, the former UConn equipment manager who was tangled up in the investigation involving illegal contact [...]

Checking In On… The Big East

jstevrtc — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:24:12 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin’ Is A Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.

Despite the holiday, loyal readers of RTC may have noticed something missing last week.

Where was Checking in on the Big East? Without BIAH waxing poetic about the happenings within the nation’s biggest conference, how were you able function?

For that, I must apologize. But, you see, it wasn’t all my fault. For starters, the editors at RTC are ruthless. Not only did they have me traveling up and down the eastern seaboard during the busiest travel [...]

Buzz: Will Anyone Make It to the Season?

rtmsf — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:08:15 +0000

UCLA and Washington Can’t Even Hold Full Practices. But for different reasons. At UCLA, five players (Malcolm Lee, Jerime Anderson, James Keefe, Brendan Lane and Mike Moser) all have had minor injuries that are holding them out of practice. None are serious enough to worry about, but is this a sign of bad luck or Howland toughening up his troops in Westwood? At UW, seven players, including Quincy Pondexter and Venoy Overton, have been out sick with the flu so far this very young season.

Breakable in the Big East. St. John’s star Anthony Mason, Jr., has re-aggravated a hamstring injury [...]

RTC 2009-10 Impact Players – Mid-Atlantic Region

zhayes9 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:08:31 +0000

Last week we took a look at the five impact players in the Northeast Region, so now we’re ready for the second installment of our ten-week RTC 2009-10 Impact Players series. Each week we’ll pick a geographic area of the country and break down the five players who we feel will have the most impact on their teams (and by the transitive property, college basketball) this season. Our criteria is once again subjective – there are so many good players in every region of the country that it’s difficult to narrow them down to only five in each – [...]

07.23.09 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:38:55 +0000

It’s actually been a fairly busy week in the world of college hoops despite the mid-summer lull, so let’s take a look at some of the other key stories coming down the pike…

Hoop Dreams, 15 Years Later. This week in his Hoops Thoughts column, Seth Davis pushed us down memory lane to the grungy days of 1994, a year of Cobain, Madonna’s undies and OJ’s white Bronco, but also of a bedraggled jewel of a documentary called “Hoop Dreams.” We have a fair amount of younger readers on this site, so if you’ve never seen this movie, stop what you’re doing RIGHT [...]

Checking in on the… Big East

nvr1983 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:36:19 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.

Give me an honest answer. What do you think is a more impressive accomplishment? Winning the Big East regular season title, winning the Big East Tournament, or reaching the Final Four?

Me? I’m going with the Big East regular season title. Every single time you step on the court in this league, it is a dogfight. It’s ridiculous what these teams go through. Take a look at the next six days for Syracuse: they head to DC on Wednesday to take on Georgetown, [...]

Set Your Tivos: 01.10.09 & 01.11.09

nvr1983 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:30:08 +0000

Set Your Tivos is back with a loaded schedule. It looks like the NCAA is kicking the season into full swing this weekend with that pesky little college football sport and its antediluvian method of determining a champion out of the way, we can all focus on what’s really important.

Saturday Noon – NC State at #11 Clemson on Raycom Sports and ESPN Full Court: The Wolfpack will be looking to hand the Tigers their first defeat. Just based on history, I don’t have a lot of faith in Clemson and it looks like the pollsters don’t either. I don’t think this [...]

Checking in on the… Big East

rtmsf — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:57:12 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.

Some of the Big East elite stumbled this week. Notre Dame, Louisville, Georgetown, West Virginia, Marquette, and Cincinnati all picked up their first loss of the season since the last time we checked in with RTC. Should Big East fans be worried? Was all that talk about the Big East being the best conference ever nothing but talk? In a word … maybe? Look, the bottom line is that each one of the aforementioned teams that suffered their first loss got beat by a [...]

11.24.08 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:59:00 +0000

Feasting on a feastly week of hoops… here’s the news…

Remember 73-yr old Ken Mink’s first game where he scored two points? We wondered who and how he could possibly get fouled?!? Believe it or not, watch the video here of this CBS News report where Mink pump-fakes on the wing and gets hammered by some 19-year old defender (#23) who never learned to properly close out on shooters.

Loyola Marymount head coach Bill Bayno is taking a leave of absence from his position, effective immediately, due to an undisclosed medical condition. UCLA’s Alfred Aboya didn’t break his hand in Friday’s game against SIU, [...]

ATB: Quiet Before the Storm

rtmsf — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:23:02 +0000

News & Notes. We’d like to take a moment at the beginning of tonight’s ATB to honor former Cal head coach and legendary big man guru Pete Newell, who died today at the age of 93. He led Cal to its only national championship in 1959, won a gold medal as the US Olympic team coach in 1960, and was elected to the basketball Hall of Fame in 1979. Although he was before our time, we’ve heard the stories of his legend and he is considered one of the most influential figures in basketball history. May he rest [...]

2008-09 Conference Primers: #1 – Big East

rtmsf — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:13:27 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.

Predicted Order of Finish (from the coach’s pre-season poll, released at Big East media day):

Connecticut (9) Louisville (3) Pitt (3) Notre Dame (1) Villanova Marquette Georgetown Syracuse West Virginia Providence Cincinnati Rutgers Seton Hall St john’s DePaul South Florida

WYN2K. You hear that? You know what that is? That’s the sound of RTC stealing my thunder. I’m not much of a statistician myself, but just by looking at that pre-season poll I can tell you this – the Big East is loaded. If you live outside of Big East country, then you are probably sick of hearing about how good [...]