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2009-10 Conference Primers: #4 – Big 12

rtmsf — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:40:11 +0000

Patrick Sellars is the RTC correspondent for the Big 12 Conference.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Kansas (15-1) Texas (14-2) Oklahoma (11-5) Kansas State (10-6) Missouri (9-7) Texas A&M (8-8) Oklahoma State (8-8) Iowa State (7-9) Baylor (5-11) Texas Tech (4-12) Nebraska (3-13) Colorado (2-14)

All Conference Team:

Sherron Collins (G), Kansas Willie Warren (G) Oklahoma Craig Brackins (F) Iowa State Damion James (F), Texas Cole Aldrich (C), Kansas

6th Man. James Anderson (G) Oklahoma State

Impact Newcomer. Xavier Henry (G), Kansas

What You Need to Know.

KU Dominance. Of the 13 years that the Big 12 has held a conference tournament, Kansas has won the crown six times, which is the most of any Big 12 school. Kansas has been deemed the regular [...]

06.24.09 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:23:49 +0000

What’s this? Two days in a row with FBs? Indeed. There’s a lot to get caught up on…

Duke Downer. The biggest news today was the news that Duke point guard Elliot Williams (he of the happy, happy feet) will be leaving the Duke program so that he can move closer to Memphis, his hometown. Reportedly his mother is facing a life-threatening illness there and Williams wants to be nearby for support as she battles her disease. He plans on petitioning the NCAA to waive the one-year transfer obligation so that he will be able to play immediately at [...]

NCAA Preview: Missouri Tigers

rtmsf — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:39:41 +0000

Missouri (#3, West, Boise pod)

vs. Cornell (#14) Friday, March 20 @ 3pm

Vegas Line: Missouri -13

Thanks to Vegas Watch for providing these graphs that measure the moving average of a team’s spread (moving avg.) over time vs. the spread for each individual game (indiv). If a team’s moving average is higher than zero, then Vegas currently has a higher opinion of them than Pomeroy, and vice versa.

General Profile

Location: Columbia, MO Conference: Big 12, Automatic bid Coach: Mike Anderson (62-34 in three seasons) 08-09 Record: 28-6 (12-4) Last 12 Games: 10-2 (streak: 3 wins) Best Win: 62-60, Kansas, 2/9 Worst Loss: 56-51, at Nebraska, 1/10 Off. Efficiency Rating: 114.9; #18 Def. Efficiency Rating: 88.2; [...]

NCAA Basketball 2009: The BCS Version

nvr1983 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:15:51 +0000

With the release of the brackets on Sunday evening there has been quite a bit of controversy (Arizona over St. Mary’s being the predominant gripe) and there have been some interesting moments with Jay Bilas and Digger Phelps ganging up on Dick Vitale and almost bringing him to tears. However, it was nothing compared to the furor that we saw when the BCS released its final poll that determined the BCS bowl games and more importantly the national championship. We thought it would be a fun exercise to try to make a [...]

27 Down, 38 To Go…

rtmsf — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:59:08 +0000

There are twelve automatic bids today, so we’ll be updating these as the day moves forward…

#16 – Binghamton (23-8, 16-3 Am East). Binghamton took care of business today against upstart UMBC to win their eleventh in a row and earn the school’s first ever NCAA bid. Reggie Fuller had 19/10 and alleged non-POY DJ Rivera added 16/5 in the RTC home win. We had more coverage on today’s BGTD.

Projected Seed: #16

Something to Remember: Binghamton is um, size-challenged. Their tallest starter is the 6’6 Fuller. And have you heard that Tony Kornheiser has [...]

Big 12 Wrap & Tourney Preview

rtmsf — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:06:14 +0000

Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Big 12 and MVC Conferences.

Kansas didn’t rebuild, they reloaded this season. After questions whether this team would be able to be as good as they were last season with basically only Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich, this new class has gelled together and Bill Self was able to prove that he is one of the best developers of talent in the nation and also the Big 12 Coach of the Year. As I said in my preseason predictions, Kansas could fly under the [...]

ATB: Misery in Missouri

rtmsf — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:38:01 +0000

Take Our Poll

Some News & Notes.

John Gasaway believes (as we do) that UCLA is better than everyone thinks. He just argues a better case. Doug Gottlieb gives some pointers to Alabama and Georgia’s brass when considering whom to hire for their programs this spring.

Your Gigantic Monday.

Pittsburgh 70, West Virginia 59. As soon as Pitt beast DeJuan Blair picked up his second foul with fifteen minutes remaining in the first half, we immediately went into “upset” mode at the RTC compound. In the Panthers’ two previous games where Blair’s effectiveness was limited by the whistles, Pitt [...]

Checking in on the… Big 12

rtmsf — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:32:00 +0000

Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Big 12 and Missouri Valley Conferences.

Current Records and my standings (Conference Standings) (Last Week)

Oklahoma (23-1)(9-0) (1) Kansas (19-4)(8-0) (2) Missouri (20-4) (7-2) (3) Nebraska (15-7) (5-4) (7) Kansas St. (16-7) (5-4)(8) Texas (15-7) (4-4) (4) Texas A&M (17-7) (3-6) (5) Baylor (15-8) (3-6) (6) Oklahoma St. (14-8) (3-5) (9) Texas Tech (12-11) (2-6)(11) Iowa St. (12-11) (1-7) (10) Colorado (8-12) (1-7) (12)

A lot of teams have separated themselves this week. A few teams are on life support and the Big 12 south is eating each other alive.

GAME OF THE WEEK Nebraska 58, Texas 55—Nebraska took advantage of [...]

Conference Over- and Underachievers

jstevrtc — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:29 +0000

John Stevens is a featured writer for Rush The Court. His column appears on Tuesdays throughout the season.

All right, now we’re talking. We’re several games into conference play, now, and the leagues are starting to take shape. We’ve known the fates of some teams for a long time, both the good (your Carolinas and Dukes, Oklahomas and UConns, etc), and the bad (no need to pile on, here). The most interesting part of it all, to me, are those teams which are doing a little better than they expected and may be making tenuous hotel reservations for a very [...]

Checking in on the… Big 12

rtmsf — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:55:12 +0000

Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Big 12 and Missouri Valley Conferences.

Current Records and my standings (Conference Standings) (Last Week)

Oklahoma (19-1)(5-0) (1) Texas (14-4) (3-1) (2) Kansas (15-4)(4-0) (4) Missouri (17-3) (4-1) (6) Baylor (15-4) (3-2) (3) Oklahoma St. (13-5) (2-2) (8) Texas A&M (15-5) (1-4) (5) Texas Tech (11-8) (1-3)(11) Nebraska (12-6) (2-3) (7) Iowa St. (12-7) (1-3) (9) Kansas St. (12-7) (1-4)(10) Colorado (8-10) (0-4) (12)

As expected, the top of the Big 12 was going to be dominant in conference play this season with a Missouri team really starting to look good. Baylor and Texas A&M have [...]

Dynamic Duos in Search of a Third Wheel

rtmsf — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:06:45 +0000

John Stevens is featured columnist for RTC. His columns will appear on Tuesdays throughout the season.

Ask any college basketball coach what a team needs to succeed in March and you’ll get a variety of answers — solid point guard play, a big inside threat, conditioning, luck, a guarantee that John Stevens will NOT bet on you — all popular answers. A “go-to” guy is also a popular response, but I think history has shown that simply one standout player will not prove sufficient. These days you have to have a balanced squad in addition to having at least [...]

ATB: Weekend Wrap

rtmsf — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:25:56 +0000

Forget the BCS. None of the big college football matchups this weekend were worth your time – Texas Tech/Oklahoma: blowout; Ohio St/Michigan: blowout; Penn St/Michigan St: blowout; Utah/BYU: blowout – so hopefully you found some good hoops to watch instead.

The Return of our Lord and Savior Tyler Hansbrough. UNC 84, UC Santa Barbara 67. This game was a little past RTC’s bedtime on Friday night, so we’ll cover it now. Did you guys hear? Tyler Hansbrough made his triumphant return to UNC’s lineup Friday night! The stress reaction is no longer reacting! There was to be no Santa [...]

ATB: Is Michigan Back?

rtmsf — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:44:44 +0000

Game of the Night. Michigan 55, UCLA 52. Remember our stat from last week about Ben Howland’s UCLA teams going 1-2 on the eastern seaboard in his five seasons there? After tonight’s semifinal matchup with Michigan, make that 1-3. It’s true that his teams don’t seem to play well back east, but there’s more to it than that. One of the few coherent things that Vitale said during tonight’s game was that we all had rated UCLA based on Ben Howland and his ridiculous freshman class rather than the current experience and skills of players he is actually putting [...]

Fast Breaks 07.16.07

rtmsf — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:16:16 +0000

For some reason, we don’t recall summers growing up as this boring…

Mizzou players Kalen Grimes (accused of assault with a shotgun in, of all places, a Jack in the Box) and DeMarre Carroll (shot in the ankle outside a nightclub) were involved in separate incidents within five days of each other. Mike Anderson’s honeymoon is apparently over in Columbia. Bad Luck in Durham: Duke’s Brian Zoubek broke his foot in a pickup game; and Demarcus Nelson broke his wrist at the Pan Am trials within the last week. No word on whether Greg Paulus’s mishap with autoerotic asphyxiation will [...]