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Morning Five: 11.25.11 Edition

nvr1983 — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:00:03 +0000

We hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and got to indulge in turkey or whatever food you prefer while spending time with friends and/or family. There was not much off-the-court news yesterday so instead of our traditional recap where we avoid discussing the games directly we are going to provide general overviews of the games that have already happened and the ones that are on tap. Praise continues to pour in for the Duke–Kansas game, which may have been the best November college basketball game in the past few years. ESPN’s Brian Windhorst (aka LeBron’s personal biographer) called it “a candidate for [...]

That’s Debatable: Coaches Giving Thanks

rtmsf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:48:37 +0000

Each week RTC will posit a That’s Debatable question or topic that is relevant to the world of college basketball. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes serious, we’ll post the thoughts of our core editing crew (in 200 words or less), but we’ll also be expanding to include our contributors and correspondents as appropriate throughout the season. We also invite you, the readers, to join us as we mull over some of the questions facing the game today. Feel free to send us your takes and/or leave them in the comments below.

This Week’s Topic: Thanksgiving week is upon us, and families everywhere [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #1 – Big Ten

rtmsf — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:02:29 +0000

Josh & Mike from Big Ten Geeks contributed this preview for the Big Ten Conference.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Purdue (14-4) MSU (14-4) Minnesota (12-6) Michigan (12-6) Ohio St. (11-7) Illinois (9-9) Wisconsin (8-10) Northwestern (6-12) Penn St. (5-13) Indiana (5-13) Iowa (3-15)

All-Conference Team:

Kalin Lucas (G), Michigan State (110.2 ORtg, 28.6 Shot Percentage) William Buford (G), Ohio State (108.1 ORtg, 27.6 Shot Percentage) Evan Turner (F), Ohio State (108.3 ORtg, 25.3 Shot Percentage) DeShawn Sims (F), Michigan (108.6 ORtg, 30.3 Shot Percentage) JaJuan Johnson (C), Purdue (112.3 ORtg, 8.1 Block Percentage)

6th Man. Robbie Hummel (F), Purdue.

Impact Newcomer. D.J. Richardson (G), Illinois.

What You Need to Know.

The Big 10 is Very Good This Year. No, really, we [...]

2009 One-and-Dones: Was It Worth It?

rtmsf — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:08:21 +0000

It’s no secret that the high school Class of 2008 was one of the weakest in recent memory. Coming into the 2008-09 regular season, could you realistically point to any one player who would impact their team enough to become another Derrick Rose or a Michael Beasley (class of 2007), a Greg Oden or a Kevin Durant (class of 2006)? No way, right? The consensus #1 player, Brandon Jennings, high-tailed it to Europe when it became apparent he wasn’t going to become eligible to play college ball at Arizona, where he proceeded to burn up foreign nets at the [...]

Boom/Bust Cycle

rtmsf — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:06:06 +0000

It’s a little less than an hour before tonight’s NBA Draft, and this should have probably been done days ago, but we wanted to use our undeniable RTC expertise when it comes to projecting college hoops talent to the pros so we can say “told ya so” when the one undervalued player we said would be a star pans out (while the other ten we said would be don’t, but let’s not quibble). We’ll use Andy Katz’s final mock draft from this morning, and we’re only going to evaluate college players (because we’ve seen them play for at least [...]

Early Entries 2009 Part 1

nvr1983 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:16:01 +0000

While most of the nation has been fixated on the Final 4 and the circus going on in Lexington, which is probably over (for now), several players have decided to enter the NBA Draft. Here’s the list:

DaJuan Summers (Georgetown, junior)–#47 in Chad Ford’s Top 100/#47 in the DraftExpress Top 100 Nick Calathes (Florida, sophomore)–#38 in Chad Ford’s Top 100/#73 in the DraftExpress Top 100 Patrick Christopher (California, junior)–Unranked Brandon Costner (NC State, junior)–Unranked Greivis Vasquez (Maryland, junior)–#55 in Chad Ford’s Top 100/#78 in the DraftExpress Top 100 B.J. Mullens (Ohio State, freshman)–#21 in Chad Ford’s Top 100/#15 in the DraftExpress Top 100

We’d like to apologize for our coverage yesterday. We had some technical/communication issues regarding the post yesterday, but I’ll be back covering the games today so everything should be back to normal. Here’s a quick rundown of the games we’ll be covering today:

Early Games

12:15 PM: #14 Stephen F. Austin vs. #3 Syracuse 12:25 PM: #9 Tennessee vs. #8 Oklahoma State 12:30 PM: #11 Utah State vs. #6 Marquette 12:30 PM: #14 North Dakota State vs. #3 Kansas

Afternoon Games

2:45 PM: #11 Temple vs. #6 Arizona State 2:55 PM: #16 East Tennessee State vs. #1 Pittsburgh 3:00 PM: #14 Cornell vs. [...]

NCAA Preview: Ohio State Buckeyes

rtmsf — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:40:33 +0000

Ohio State (#7, Midwest, Dayton pod)

vs. Siena (#9) Mar. 19 @ 9:40pm Vegas Line: Ohio St. -3

Thanks to Vegas Watch for providing these graphs that measure the moving average of a team’s spread (moving avg.) over time vs. the spread for each individual game (indiv). If a team’s moving average is higher than zero, then Vegas currently has a higher opinion of them than Pomeroy, and vice versa.

General Profile Location: Columbus, Ohio Conference: Big Ten Coach: Thad Matta, hired 2004. Record at OSU = 127-45. 08-09 Record: 22-10 (10-8) Last 12 Games: 7-5 Best Win: vs Michigan State 82-70, on 3/14/09 Worst Loss: at Northwestern, 69-72, on 2/18/09. Off. Efficiency [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: 03.14.09

nvr1983 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:02:41 +0000

Welcome back to the weekend edition of Boom Goes the Dynamite. First off I’d like to commend rtmsf for his strong work on yesterday’s BGtD. You guys really have no idea how exhausting it is doing a full day’s worth of this is and he managed to do it with only a short break although it almost caused me to give up working on the site after being forced to endure the American–Holy Cross game yesterday. As he outlined in his After the Buzzer post last night/this morning, there are 12 conference championship games today. For the sake [...]

Checking in on the… Big Ten

nvr1983 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:38:05 +0000

Josh & Mike from Big Ten Geeks are the RTC correspondents for the Big Ten Conference.

Looking Back As Lester Bangs told William Miller, “you’ll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.” He could just as well have been talking to most of the Big Ten this season, as we now see 5 conference teams bunched up with 7 or 8 losses, all fighting for their NCAA Tournament lives. Penn State got a big boost from their ugly 38-33 victory at Illinois, then lost a winnable game at Ohio State to rejoin the masses. [...]

02.24.09 Fast Breaks

nvr1983 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:27:02 +0000

Our intern comes through with a great set of links again today.

With Pat Knight suspended for one game, Ray Glier at NBC says blame coaches for the sport’s poor behavior. With Arkansas Little-Rock right in the thick of the Sun Belt Conference Title race at 20-7 (13-3), Coach Steve Shields has kicked his leading scorer off the team. Michigan coach John Beilein defends his decision to bench star Manny Harris for OT in the crippling loss to Iowa. Better late than never. . . Joe Sheehan at BP with his BracketBusters wrap-up. Dennis Dodd thinks Kansas is just that good, but he [...]

ATB: Ohio St. Rising

rtmsf — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:50:20 +0000

UNC’s Ginyard Out for the Year. No surprise here, but UNC made it official today – Marcus Ginyard’s stress fracture will keep him out of the lineup for the rest of this season. A lot has been written about UNC missing Ginyard’s sticky defense, especially on the perimeter, but at least statistically, the Heels are playing better defense this year than last (even though it’s a marginal difference). Where Ginyard is missed is at the three-point line, where teams are shooting a better-than-expected 32.4% against them. As anyone who has watched this game before knows, hot three-point shooting [...]

Checking in on the… Big Ten

nvr1983 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:30:02 +0000

Josh & Mike from Big Ten Geeks are the RTC correspondents for the Big Ten Conference.

Looking Back It’s hard to believe, but Wisconsin now sits in 9th place in the conference after losing six games in a row. There’s a lot of hemming and hawing up in the Badger State right now with some pointing to a “recruiting hiccup”, but the truth is that the Badgers have just lost a lot of close games including two overtime contests. In fact, this team is 8 points away from being in first place in the Big Ten. They probably aren’t [...]

Set Your Tivos: 01.20.09-01.22.09

nvr1983 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:21:42 +0000

In light of the weak set of games this week, we’re bringing you a midweek (Tuesday-Thursday) Set Your Tivos before the weekend edition (Friday night’s games are awful so go out and do something that night).

Tuesday (01.20.09) – Ohio State at #24 Illinois, 7 PM on ESPN and ESPN360.com: Illinois has been one of the most surprising teams in the first half of the college basketball season. Bruce Weber‘s team came into the season without a single vote in either major poll and now they sit in the top 25. Although they are only 3-2 in the Big Ten [...]

Set Your Tivos: New Year’s Eve Spectacular

nvr1983 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:09:07 +0000

I’ll be honest with you. This doesn’t even come close to Super Saturday from a couple weekends ago, but it’s certainly better than watching all the specials about how your retirement account fell apart this year or some mediocre college football teams play in a meaningless bowl games that nobody has ever heard of. It certainly should be enough to distract Big Ten fans away from their teams getting blown out in the bowl games. In any event it will get the rest of you ready for Dick Clark at midnight. . .

Credit: http://www.museum.tv/

Noon ET – #15 Michigan State [...]