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Set Your TiVo: 02.11.12 – 02.12.12

Brian Otskey — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:34:29 +0000

Brian Otskey is the Big East correspondent for RTC and a regular contributor. You can find him @botskey on Twitter. See bottom of the post for the Official RTC Star System.

Plenty of top 25 games are on Saturday’s slate while conference races heat up and bubble teams look for key wins.

#20 Virginia at #5 North Carolina – 1:00 PM EST Saturday on ESPN FullCourt/ESPN3.com (****)

Coming off the crushing home loss to Duke on Wednesday, how will the Tar Heels respond? Without P.J. Hairston (sore foot) in the lineup, things could get a little dicey [...]

Checking In On… the Missouri Valley Conference

Brian Goodman — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:43:43 +0000

Patrick Marshall is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference. You can also find his musings online at White & Blue Review or on Twitter @wildjays.

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The Week That Was:

McDermott Continues To Impress—Doug McDermott continues to be on the radar of most major college basketball lists, especially with his 44-point performance against Bradley on Saturday night, which is tops in college hoops this season and the most for an MVC player since 1999. Jay Bilas of ESPN even tabbed McDermott as the mid-season Player of the Year. It will be interesting to see ultimately how McDermott handles [...]

Checking In On… the Missouri Valley Conference

Brian Goodman — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:37:17 +0000

Patrick Marshall is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference. You can also find his musings online at White & Blue Review or on Twitter @wildjays.

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The Week That Was:

Creighton Cracks The Polls—This week, for the first time since March 2007, the Bluejays are ranked in one of the major polls. They check in at #25 in the USA Today Coaches poll. The last team from the MVC to be ranked by the coaches was Northern Iowa, which was 13th in the final USA Today Coaches poll at the conclusion of the 2009-10 campaign. [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #12 – Missouri Valley Conference

Brian Goodman — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:00:02 +0000

Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference. You can find him on Twitter @wildjays.

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Top Storylines

Back to Multiple Bids?: The Missouri Valley Conference is getting a little more attention entering this season than in the past, and rightfully so. Six of the top ten scorers in the league are back along with four of the top five rebounders. The league is looking to have the impact it had back in the 2005-06 season, when it sent four teams to the NCAA Tournament. Since then, only the automatic qualifier [...]

20 Questions: Who is the Most Underrated Team in America?

rtmsf — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:22:17 +0000

Brian Otskey is RTC’s Big East correspondent and a regular contributor.

Question: Who is the Most Underrated Team in America?

Selecting an “underrated” team is always a difficult proposition. Plenty of teams could qualify for this distinction but it’s a highly subjective choice, routinely exhibited in national polls where one voter’s opinion can be vastly different from another. When picking an underrated team, I look for a roster with highly talented and experienced returning players who aren’t easily recognized by the average college basketball fan. Additionally, a quality coach with a track record of year to year improvement is an important piece of [...]

RTC Summer Updates: Missouri Valley Conference

Brian Goodman — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:00:15 +0000

With the the NBA Draft concluded and the annual coaching and transfer carousels nearing their ends, RTC is rolling out a new series, RTC Summer Updates, to give you a crash course on each Division I conference during the summer months. The latest update comes courtesy of our MVC correspondent, Patrick Marshall.

The summer has been a busy one for the Missouri Valley Conference. They are hoping the 2011-12 season will be one that sees the conference become a multiple-bid league again. They haven’t had multiple bids to the NCAA Tournament since the 2006-07 season.

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2011-12 RTC (Way Too Early) Top 25

KDoyle — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:36:24 +0000

The 2010-11 season just concluded — we are just as sad as you guys are — but rather than get all nostalgic, teary-eyed, and lament the next seven months without college basketball, let’s look towards the future. That’s right, folks, hot off the presses: the first 2011-12 Top 25. Our assumptions on who is staying/leaving are within the team breakdowns.

North Carolina—The Heels have a whole lot coming back and lose next to nothing. Harrison Barnes looked like the stud he was advertised in the preseason as he developed into Carolina’s top player down the stretch, and Kendall Marshall flourished [...]

The Other 26: Week 13

KDoyle — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:51:39 +0000

Kevin Doyle is an RTC contributor.

Introduction

In last week’s article I touched on the notion of parity and how great it is within the world of sports. After analyzing many of the Other 26 conferences this week, I could not help but notice how in several of the conference there is not one team that has distinguished themselves from the pack yet, and we are already nearing mid-February. In some cases, there are not even two or three teams that are running away with the league. Competitiveness or mediocrity? Well, does it really [...]

Set Your Tivo: 01.07-01.09

Brian Otskey — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:01:31 +0000

***** – quit your job and divorce your wife if that’s what it takes to watch this game live **** – best watched live, but if you must, tivo and watch it tonight as soon as you get home *** – set your tivo but make sure you watch it later ** – set your tivo but we’ll forgive you if it stays in the queue until 2013 * – don’t waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo’s) of any kind on this game

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.

The first big hoops weekend of 2011 [...]

Set Your Tivo: 12.04-12.05

Brian Otskey — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:46:27 +0000

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.

The biggest hoops weekend of the year thus far [...]

Ten Tuesday Scribbles

zhayes9 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:23:55 +0000

Zach Hayes is an editor, contributor and bracketologist for Rush the Court.

Pitt has a team capable of reaching that elusive Final Four

1. I had an opportunity to attend the consolation and championship games of the 2K Sports Classic last Friday and learned a great deal about the four teams participating- Pittsburgh, Texas, Illinois and Maryland. The Panthers were one of my preseason Final Four teams and did nothing to give me second thoughts on that prediction. Ashton Gibbs is a true playmaker at the end of the shot clock, Jamie [...]

Checking in on… the MVC

jstevrtc — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:54:36 +0000

Patrick Marshall of White & Blue Review is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley Conference.

Current records and my standings (Conference Standings) (Last Week):

Northern Iowa 12-1 (3-0) (3) Wichita State 13-2 (2-1) (1) Missouri State 12-2 (2-1) (2) Illinois State 11-3 (2-1) (5) Southern Illinois 9-3 (2-1) (4) Indiana State 10-4 (2-1) (6) Bradley 6-7 (1-2) (8) Creighton 6-8 (1-2) (9) Evansville 6-7 (0-3) (7) Drake 5-10 (0-3) (10)

STORIES OF THE WEEK

Northern Iowa mowing down the Valley — Those that don’t consider Northern Iowa the class of the Valley [...]