define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); collegeinsider.com – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:53:14 +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 Harvard Must Stay the Course After Winning Great Alaska Shootout http://rushthecourt.net/2013/12/04/harvard-must-stay-the-course-after-winning-great-alaska-shootout/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/12/04/harvard-must-stay-the-course-after-winning-great-alaska-shootout/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:40:36 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=100872

High expectations can sometimes have an adverse effect on a basketball team, magnifying moments of failure and creating unnecessary pressure that otherwise would not exist. After pulling off an unexpected upset over #3-seed New Mexico in last year’s NCAA Tournament, Harvard entered this fall with entirely different expectations from a year ago. Whereas the 2012-13 Crimson squad was largely written off before the year began with star upperclassmen Brandyn Curry and Kyle Casey having withdrawn from school due to an academic scandal, this season’s club returned both of those All-Ivy players in addition to four starters and a strong recruiting [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2013/12/04/harvard-must-stay-the-course-after-winning-great-alaska-shootout/feed/ 0 The Great West Conference Finds a Home For Its Champion http://rushthecourt.net/2009/09/29/the-great-west-conference-finds-a-home-for-its-champion/ http://rushthecourt.net/2009/09/29/the-great-west-conference-finds-a-home-for-its-champion/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:12:37 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=11361

Last year we brought you news about the creation of the newest Division I basketball conference, the Great West Conference, which will start organized operations this season. As we noted at the time, the league wasn’t exactly a “Who’s Who” of basketball powerhouses. In fact, the most notable program in the league was the New Jersey Institute of Technology, which went 0-29 in the 2007-2008 season before finally winning a game last season.

The full list of GWC members:

Chicago State University Houston Baptist University New Jersey Institute of Technology University of North Dakota University of South Dakota University of Texas-Pan American Utah Valley University