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Give Me the Loot — UNC & Duke Headline Top NBA Earners by College Alumni

EJacoby — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:25:37 +0000

Evan Jacoby is a regular contributor to RTC. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter.

If you want to ask your friends a great trivia question, or perhaps settle a debate, check out the Wall Street Journal’s list of college basketball programs whose players have earned the most money in the NBA since 1985. The WSJ calls it the ‘Basketball Alumni Loot Index.’ This is the kind of intense research that pays off, as this article is now a great bookmark for fans’ reference.

UNC's Rasheed Wallace Made A Lot of Noise in the NBA; He Also Made A Lot of [...]

Kentucky’s Forgotten Man: Eloy Vargas

Brian Joyce — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:45:47 +0000

The 2011-12 Kentucky Wildcats are the media darlings of the SEC and perhaps the entire country. There are already countless stories about the talents of Anthony Davis and Terrence Jones. There are plenty of anecdotes about the leadership of senior Darius Miller. The media likes to talk about the pressure on Marquis Teague to follow in the footsteps of the lineage of great point guards who have played before him in John Calipari’s system. There is even a documentary on HBO focusing on the life of a Kentucky freshman, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. But you probably won’t find another story about the [...]

Who’s Got Next? Illegal Benefits, Kentucky Spotlight, Shabazz Muhammad and More…

Josh Paunil — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:18:45 +0000

Who’s Got Next? is a bi-weekly column by Josh Paunil, the RTC recruiting guru. We encourage you to check out his website dedicated solely to college basketball recruiting, National Recruiting Spotlight, for more detailed recruiting information. Twice a week he will bring you an overview of what’s going on in the complex world of recruiting, from who is signing where among the seniors to who the hot prospects are in the lower levels of the sport. If you have any suggestions as to areas we’re missing, please let us know at rushthecourt@yahoo.com.

Introduction

Well, if you [...]

FOXSports.com Alleges Impermissible Calls From Former Calipari Aide

jstevrtc — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:04:51 +0000

On Friday evening, FOXSports.com writers Jeff Goodman and Thayer Evans released a story alleging that Bilal Batley, a former staff member at both Memphis and Kentucky, made what the NCAA would consider impermissible contact in the form of cell phone calls to recruits while employed by John Calipari at both programs. The FOX story specifically names former Kentucky star DeMarcus Cousins and class of 2012 recruit L. J. Rose, as well as numerous current and former players who ended up attending various schools, as having been contacted by Batley, going back as far as Batley’s time as a graduate manager under [...]

Morning Five: 02.17.11 Edition

nvr1983 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:00:13 +0000

We link to Seth Davis a lot not just because we like him, but also because he always comes out with quality content. Yesterday’s mailbag is no exception, as Seth takes a look at how previous national champions did in the often cited Strength of Schedule metric. The answer may surprise you, although we would argue that the SOS reflects the conference that the team plays in rather than the quality of the team itself. Personally I would be interested in seeing how national championship teams were rated by various computer ranking systems entering the NCAA Tournament. [Ed. Note: We [...]

ATB: Ow, My Eyes!

jstevrtc — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:45:29 +0000

The Lede. Thursday night was angry because it had to follow Wednesday night’s ridiculous bounty of hoops and the Florida State upset of Duke. Still, there were some compelling storylines to follow on tonight’s slate, including a streak on the line at Minnesota, some serious glare coming off the Jackson Pollock painting that is Oregon’s new floor, and whether or not Seth Greenberg and Virginia Tech would have enough players to finish their game at North Carolina.

Your Watercooler Moment. For those in the East who stayed up long enough to see it, here’s a look at [...]

Two Minutes’ Hate: The RTC Rivalry Series — Kentucky vs Louisville

jstevrtc — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:59:33 +0000

One of the best things about college basketball is the rivalries. Whether rational or not, rivalries usually manifest themselves through the players and fans of the involved schools in the form of true, unmitigated disdain for the other side. Because we love making trouble, and with apologies to Orwell, we give you the Two Minutes’ Hate, a series of posts in which we give fans/bloggers/writers of both sides of a given rivalry a chance to vent about the other side, with minimal but identical prompting from us. We encouraged them to cut loose and hold nothing back, and [...]

RTC Live: Maui Invitational Quarters

rtmsf — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:40:50 +0000

Games #23-#24. RTC Live will be courtside in the beautiful tropical island of Maui for the 27th annual Maui Invitational.

There are four quarterfinal games in today’s Maui Invitational, but RTC Live has selected the two that seemingly hold the most interest. At 3 pm ET (and an early 10 am in the islands), UConn will take on a Wichita State team eager to prove itself against a brand-name team in the hopes of advancing into the tournament semifinals and enjoying the multiple-game RPI boost that would entail (win or lose). Jim Calhoun’s Huskies just want to prove [...]

… and Four Teams Down

rtmsf — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:40:32 +0000

David Ely is an RTC contributor.

Every year teams come out of nowhere and burst into the top 25, while sports writers run to their keyboards to type the requisite “Where Did Team X Come From” story. I mean how many people saw Cornell coming last year? Who said last October that Butler would go on to lose the national championship game by just a couple of inches? Conversely, there are teams that look great on paper in the preseason but fail to live up to the hype once the season starts. Think North Carolina last season. [...]

Where 2010-11 Happens: Reason #4 Why We Love College Basketball

rtmsf — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:05:48 +0000

Shamelessly cribbing from the clever NBA catch phrase, we here at RTC will present you with the 2010-11 edition of Thirty Reasons We Love College Basketball as we ramp up to the start of the season a little over a month from now. We’ll be bringing you players to watch for this season and moments to remember from last season, courtesy of the series of dump trucks, wires and effluvia known as YouTube. If you want to have some fun while killing time, we encourage you to re-visit [...]

The AP Makes Harrison Barnes Its First Freshman Preseason All-American

nvr1983 — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:33:03 +0000

Typically, the announcement of preseason All-Americans is something that we pass over, but when today’s list was announced it caught our eye. It appears that the Associated Press has decided to get with the 21st century and named Harrison Barnes as a 1st team preseason All-American making him the first freshman to receive the honor since the AP began bestowing the honor before the 1986-87 season. Although Barnes was technically the last man on the team with 17 out of 67 possible votes, by far the fewest of any member of the 1st team, it is remarkable that he achieved recognition that [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #22 – Atlantic Sun Conference

nvr1983 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:00:09 +0000

Rush The Court is actively seeking a correspondent for the Atlantic Sun Conference. If you or someone you know is interested in becoming a correspondent, please contact us at rushthecourt@yahoo.com.

Predicted Order of Finish

Belmont (16-4) East Tennessee State (15-5) Lipscomb (13-7) Campbell (12-8) Jacksonville (11-9) North Florida (10-10) Mercer (10-10) USC-Upstate (7-13) Kennesaw State (6-14) Stetson (5-15) Florida Gulf Coast (5-15)

All-Conference Team

Markeith Cummings (F) – Kennesaw State (17.4 PPG and 6.1 RPG) Adnan Hodzic (C) – Lipscomb (22.7 PPG and 9.1 RPG; last year’s A-Sun POY) Mike Smith (G) – ETSU (15.3 PPG and 7.7 RPG as a sophomore; injured last year) Josh [...]

Latest Kanter Report: A Blow To Kentucky

nvr1983 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:01:34 +0000

Like much of the state of Kentucky we have spent much of the off-season wondering whether or not Turkish super-recruit Enes Kanter would be declared eligible by the NCAA this season. As late as Tuesday morning it appeared that the NCAA would make a ruling regarding his eligibility within the next two weeks. Typically when the NCAA is ruling on a freshman’s eligibility the focus is on the student-athlete’s academic eligibility, but despite only spending one year in a US school Kanter appears to have been declared academically eligible. The real issue comes from questions over whether he is [...]

2010-11 RTC Class Schedule: Kentucky Wildcats

zhayes9 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:45:31 +0000

Zach Hayes is a editor, contributor and bracketologist at Rush the Court. To see the entire group of 2010-11 Class Schedules, click here.

After dissecting a trio of Big 12 teams in prior weeks, more and more elite programs are releasing their 2010-11 schedules to the masses. Let’s continue with Kentucky, a squad that reloaded following the departure of an astounding five first round draft picks.

With so much turnover, Calipari has another tough coaching job on his hands

Team Outlook: A fan base as rabid and fanatical as Kentucky’s surely awaited this [...]

Is Calipari’s Three-Year Recruiting Run the Best Ever?

rtmsf — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:24:18 +0000

An interesting question came up among the Twitterati over the weekend when it was learned that Rivals #8 (and rising) recruit in the Class of 2011, Anthony Davis, had formally committed to Kentucky. Davis’ commitment marks the third top ten recruit in that class to have committed to John Calipari’s Wildcats, and the seventh in the 2009-11 recruiting cycles, a ridiculous feat.

John Wall (#2, 2009) DeMarcus Cousins (#3 , 2009) Brandon Knight (#4, 2010) Enes Kanter (#7, 2010) Michael Gilchrist (#1, 2011) Marquis Teague (#5, 2011) Anthony Davis (#8, 2011)

Throw in a few other high-level recruits such as Daniel Orton (#19, 2009), Eric Bledsoe (#52, 2009), Terrence [...]