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ATB: Only 3 More Ls for Gavin Grant

rtmsf — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:51:02 +0000

11.18.07

Story of the Day. New Orleans 65, NC State 63. When a bank-three from 25 feet wins a game (note: we looked all over for video evidence of this three but couldn’t find it online yet – if anyone has it, link us…) for a mid-major over a ranked team, that’s gotta be the story of the day. We’ve been vocal in our critique of whether NC State should be a ranked team this year, but we take nothing away from UNO tonight as they defeated their first ranked [...]

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: #20 – Sun Belt

rtmsf — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:08:59 +0000

Predicted Order of Finish:

East

Western Kentucky (20-7) (14-4) Florida Atlantic (21-10) (12-6) South Alabama (15-13) (9-9) Middle Tennessee St. (14-15) (9-9) Troy (11-18) (7-11) Florida International (11-18) (6-12)

West

Louisiana-Monroe (19-9) (13-5) New Orleans (18-12) (11-7) Arkansas-Little Rock (16-13) (10-8) North Texas (14-15) (8-10) Arkansas St. (12-17) (7-11) Louisiana-Lafayette (8-18) (6-12) Denver (8-20) (4-14)

WYN2K. The Sun Belt is a league that has seen better days in the eyes of the basketball world. In the 80s and early 90s, the conference was a top ten league that regularly sent multiple teams to the NCAA Tournament (10 times from 1980-95), peaking at four bids in 1986. Since 1995, [...]