define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Cal St. Bakersfield – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:28:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court The WAC’s New Additions Reveals Just How Far the League Has Fallen http://rushthecourt.net/2012/10/10/the-wacs-addition-reveals-just-how-far-the-league-has-fallen/ http://rushthecourt.net/2012/10/10/the-wacs-addition-reveals-just-how-far-the-league-has-fallen/#respond Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:16:22 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=74956

Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. 

Conference realignment has not been kind to college basketball. There are exceptions to this statement: The Atlantic 10, who over the past year added VCU and Butler, very much won out. But on the whole, hoops leagues have watched flagship programs jump ship to chase lucrative media rights contracts and better positioning in the increasingly football-oriented college athletics landscape. The winds of change prompted high-profile departures from the Big East (West Virginia, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse), pillaged the CAA (Old Dominion, Georgia State, VCU) and swiped thriving outfits from other leagues. [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2012/10/10/the-wacs-addition-reveals-just-how-far-the-league-has-fallen/feed/ 0 Morning Five: 10.10.12 Edition http://rushthecourt.net/2012/10/10/morning-five-10-10-12-edition/ http://rushthecourt.net/2012/10/10/morning-five-10-10-12-edition/#respond Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:31:04 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=74931

There was a scary moment Tuesday morning in Washington, DC, at a session of The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics when former Maryland star and current ESPN college basketball analyst Len Elmore collapsed in his chair during a Q&A session. Luckily, the 6o-year old Harvard Law graduate and resident hoops intellectual was back up on his feet after paramedics arrived and he shortly walked under his own power to his hotel room thereafter. According to the Washington Post, Elmore told SMU president Gerald Turner that this incident was related to a “longstanding health issue” of his and has happened before. [...]]]>
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