define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); conference rankings – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:35:14 +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 What to Make of the Big 12’s NCAA Tournament Performance? http://rushthecourt.net/2016/04/08/what-to-make-of-the-big-12-ncaa-tournament-performances/ http://rushthecourt.net/2016/04/08/what-to-make-of-the-big-12-ncaa-tournament-performances/#respond Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:01:39 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=120962

Before this season, Villanova was the school that couldn’t get the job done in March. The Wildcats — seemingly always a high seed — had not made it past the round of 32 since 2009 (the last time they were in the Final Four), and for the entirety of this season, they were told that the only thing that mattered was what they accomplished in the season’s final three weeks. It was, as the Big East microsite’s Justin Kundrat put it, Villanova’s most burning question entering the NCAA Tournament. One month, six wins, and a historically dramatic three-pointer later, that criticism disappeared amid the confetti tumbling down [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2016/04/08/what-to-make-of-the-big-12-ncaa-tournament-performances/feed/ 0