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Checking in on… the Big Sky

Brian Goodman — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:10:06 +0000

Jason Spencer is the RTC correspondent for the Big Sky. In addition to his tireless contributions for RTC, Jason is a screenwriter whose pursuits can be followed at the home of Blindly Driven Entertainment. [ed. note: this post was written prior to the Nov. 26-28 games]

A Look Back

This just in, Damian Lillard is a “BEAST!” Of course, if you follow the conference, you knew that already. Lillard has shown thus far in this young season that the MVP award is his to lose. In the first four games he is averaging 23 points per game. We will just let that [...]

RTC 2010-11 Impact Players – Northwest Region

rtmsf — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:05:15 +0000

Welcome to our RTC Impact Players series. The braintrust has gone back and forth on this and we’ve finally settled on a group of sixty players throughout ten geographic regions of the country (five starters plus a sixth man) to represent the who and where of players you should be watching this season. Seriously, if you haven’t seen every one of these players ball at least once by the end of February, then you need to figure out a way to get a better television package. As always in a subjective analysis such as this, some of our decisions were [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #18 – Big Sky Conference

jstevrtc — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:02:52 +0000

Rush The Court is seeking a Big Sky Conference correspondent. If you are interested in covering this league, email us for more information at rushthecourt@yahoo.com.

Predicted Order of Finish

Weber State (14-2) Montana (12-4) Northern Colorado (11-5) Northern Arizona (11-5) Montana State (10-6) Eastern Washington (8-8) Portland State (6-10) Sacramento State (5-11) Idaho State (3-13)

All-Conference Team (key stats from last season in parenthesis)

Damian Lillard (G) – Weber State (19.9 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 1.1 SPG, 85.3% FT) Cameron Jones (G) – Northern Arizona (19.3 PPG, 4.3 RPG, 1.3 SPG, 50.2% FG) Devon Beitzel (G) – Northern Colorado (14.3 PPG, 3.3 RPG, 2.0 SPG) Brian Qvale [...]

Big Sky Tournament Preview

rtmsf — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:40:52 +0000

Glenn Junkert of GrizzlyJournal.com is the RTC correspondent for the Big Sky Conference.

A week of reckoning. The Big Sky post-season tourney tips off Saturday. Listed are the final standings with tourney seed and bracket beneath it. In parentheses is the Grizzly Journal pre-season pick, which appeared here before the season began.

FINAL BIG SKY STANDINGS for 2009-10

Weber State (pre-season pick: 1st) 13-3/19-9/L1 – Tourney host; 1st round bye Northern Colorado (pre-season pick:7th) 12-4/24-6/W4 – Second seed; 1st round bye Montana State (pre-season pick: 3rd) 10-6/15-13/W1 – Third seed; Hosts Portland State in round 1 Montana (pre-season pick: 2nd) 10-6/19-9/L1 [...]

Checking in on… the Big Sky

jstevrtc — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:07:28 +0000

Glenn Junkert of GrizzlyJournal.com is the RTC correspondent for the Big Sky Conference.

BIG SKY CONFERENCE

(Records are ALL/CONF/STREAK)

Northern Colorado (10-3/1-1/W1) Bears are for real, and will head into conference play as odds-on favorites. Montana (10-4/1-1/W4) Frosh guard Will Cherry giving Griz a quickness charge at both ends of court. Montana State (7-5/2-0/L1) Balanced scoring from four starters gives senior point guard Will Bynum offensive options. Weber State (7-6/1-0/L1) Super soph Damian Lillard (19.1 PPG) has led Wildcats in scoring in nine of 13 games. Sacramento State (6-7/1-1/W2) Hornets equal ’09 conference win total in first conference [...]

2009-10 Conference Primers: #22 – Big Sky

rtmsf — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:33:12 +0000

Glenn Junkert of GrizzlyJournal.com is the RTC correspondent for the Big Sky Conference. Click here for all of our 2009-10 Season Preview materials.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Weber State (22-9, 12-4) Montana (20-8, 11-5) Montana State (16-12, 11-5) Idaho State (13-16, 10-6) Portland State (14-15, 9-7) Northern Arizona (11-17, 8-8) Northern Colorado (12-18, 5-11) Eastern Washington (8-21, 3-13) Sacramento State (7-22, 3-13)

All-Conference First Team:

Anthony Johnson, Montana Damian Lilliard, Weber State Steve Panos, Weber State Phil Nelson, Portland State Bobby Howard, Montana State

All-Conference Second Team:

Amorrow Morgan, Idaho State Will Bynum, Montana State Dominic Waters, Portland State Brandon Moore, Eastern Washington Shane Johannssen, Northern Arizona

MVP: Anthony Johnson, Montana

The non-conference season is winding down in the Big Sky, and teams throughout the league have had a varying degree of success in their tune-ups for the all-important conference season. Four teams in the Big Sky still hold winning records.

Conference Standings:

Portland State (7-1) Eastern Washington (6-2) Montana State (4-3) Montana (5-4) Weber State (3-4) Northern Colorado (2-4) Northern Arizona (2-5) Idaho State (2-7) Sacramento State (1-8)

Portland State has continued their hot start to the season, taking third place in the Great Alaska Shootout over Thanksgiving weekend. The Vikings are led in both scoring [...]

Checking in on the… Big Sky

rtmsf — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:19:53 +0000

Jordan Freemyer is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Big Sky Conferences.

(ed. note: this post was originally scheduled for publication on Friday 11/28, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to delay publication until today. Please accept our apologies.)

In the early going this season in the Big Sky, there are only four teams with less than three losses. Two of them are preseason favorites proving themselves and the others are teams picked near the bottom of the conference but have surprised.

Portland State was the preseason favorite in the Big Sky, and they are showing everyone [...]