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Villanova: The Season Is Lost, But Hope Is On The Horizon

mlemaire — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:41:33 +0000

Coaches often explain their team’s struggles by saying his group is “still learning to play together” all the time. And Villanova coach Jay Wright used the team’s furious comeback win over lowly Providence on February 7 as a chance to dust off the age-old coaching platitude once more. The only problem is that the season is almost over proving the Wildcats have had a more gradual learning curve than most.

Since that win over the Friars, the Wildcats have lost all four games they have played including games against Notre Dame and Connecticut in which they had a 20-point and 18-point lead [...]

RTC Summer Updates: Big East Conference

Brian Goodman — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:00:39 +0000

With the completion of the NBA Draft and the annual coaching and transfer carousels nearing their ends, RTC is rolling out a new series, RTC Summer Updates, to give you a crash course on each Division I conference during the summer months. Our Big East update comes from frequent RTC contributor Brian Otskey, co-author of Get to the Point.

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Connecticut Revels In National Championship Glory: Connecticut’s storybook year continued on into the offseason as the Huskies were invited to the White House for an event with President Obama on [...]

Conference Report Card: Big East

Brian Goodman — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:00:18 +0000

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor. We will be publishing a series of conference report cards over the next week for conferences that got multiple NCAA bids to recap the conference, grade the teams, and look at the future for the conference.

Conference Recap

College basketball has never witnessed a season like this year’s Big East. The conference destroyed its own record of eight NCAA bids by placing 11 clubs in the Big Dance this year and also claimed the national champion with Connecticut, which spent most of the season in the middle of the pack in [...]

Set Your Tivo: 02.28.11

Brian Otskey — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:59:15 +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 2013 * – don’t waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo’s) of any kind on this game

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Can you believe March begins tomorrow? This [...]

Set Your Tivo: 02.21.11

Brian Otskey — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:57:55 +0000

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With only two weeks left in the regular season, [...]

Set Your Tivo: 02.04-02.06

Brian Otskey — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:30:09 +0000

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On paper, this isn’t the best weekend of games. [...]

Set Your Tivo: 01.28-01.30

Brian Otskey — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:06:44 +0000

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This weekend brings us yet another great slate of [...]

Checking in on… the Big East

Brian Goodman — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:00:17 +0000

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

A Look Back

Generally, at this point in the season — late January — I have a pretty good feel for the college hoops landscape. This season? Bleh. It seems like every time I expect a team to begin their turnaround, they start to slump. Every time I expect a collapse, I get a winning streak. The Big East is no exception. Louisville looked great last week, then lost to Providence. West Virginia beat Purdue, then had two players get suspended. Notre Dame, who struggles on [...]

Set Your Tivo: 01.21-01.23

Brian Otskey — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:47:57 +0000

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Almost all of the action is on Saturday but [...]

Checking in on… the Big East

Brian Goodman — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:27:43 +0000

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

A Look Back

The Big East seems like it is beginning to break into three groups at the top. You have the contenders at the top in Pitt and Syracuse, then you have a second tier of Villanova and UConn.

Beyond that, you may as well start flipping a coin.

Right now, Louisville and West Virginia look to be the best of the rest. This comes a week after Notre Dame and Georgetown looked like they were the best of the rest. Marquette is good enough [...]

Set Your Tivo: 01.07-01.09

Brian Otskey — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:01:31 +0000

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The first big hoops weekend of 2011 [...]

Set Your Tivo: 12.30.10

Brian Otskey — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:00:40 +0000

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The Big Five takes center stage tonight followed by an under [...]

Villanova Suspension Of Pinkston Best Move For All Involved

jstevrtc — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:06:23 +0000

Villanova announced on Monday that freshman forward JayVaughn Pinkston is suspended from the school for the spring semester, meaning he isn’t permitted to attend classes, let alone play or practice with the basketball team. The suspension comes as a result of an off-campus fight in which Pinkston was involved on November 6th. He was charged with two counts of assault, but has attended classes and practiced with the team since then.

The Next 12 Months of No Basketball Will Determine the Rest of Pinkston's Basketball Life.

It’s never good when a kid faces assault charges and also [...]

Set Your Tivo: 11.26.10

Brian Otskey — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:14:17 +0000

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There are lots of good games today, most with implications [...]

Set Your Tivo: 11.24.10

Brian Otskey — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:54:56 +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 tivobut we’ll forgive you if it stays in the queue until 2013 * – don’t waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo’s) of any kind on this game

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.

Maui lived up to the hype. Kansas City? Not so much. We’ve [...]