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The Transfer Effect: What the Statistics Say about Missouri and Iowa State’s Recruiting Methods

dnspewak — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:35:58 +0000

No matter how established the program, every college basketball coach eventually takes a chance on a transfer. Jim Boeheim, for example, plucked Wesley Johnson from Iowa State and turned him into the Big East Player of the Year in 2009-10. Tom Izzo and Mike Krzyzewski’s current rosters both include transfers with Brandon Wood (Valparaiso) and Seth Curry (Liberty), and in 1979, a former Indiana Hoosier named Larry Bird nearly won a title with Indiana State just a few years after quitting basketball (and Bob Knight’s Indiana Hoosiers) altogether.

Hoiberg and Haith Are Recruiting Transfers Heavily to Their Programs

Normally, coaches take [...]

Mountain West Report Card

Brian Goodman — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:20:43 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 conferences. We will be publishing a series of conference report cards over the next week for conferences that got multiple NCAA bids to recap the conference, grade the teams, and look at the future for the conference.

Conference Recap: It was a banner year for the Mountain West despite the turbulence of the offseason that will see two of the standard-bearers of the conference (Utah and BYU) leave for arguably greener pastures this summer with TCU following them out the door [...]

Checking in on… the MWC

Brian Goodman — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:03:24 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 Conferences.

A Look Back

San Diego State and BYU continued to get separation from the rest of the pack this week, adding three more wins between them and hurtling us one week closer to an epic matchup between the two favorites in Provo on January 26. While BYU’s one game this week was a big 25-point win over intrastate rival Utah (more on that game later), the Aztecs posted the two most impressive wins of the week, getting a home win over UNLV in a slugfest [...]

Set Your Tivo: 01.05.11

Brian Otskey — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:59:10 +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.

An important in-state rivalry game and a heavyweight clash [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

Brian Goodman — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:45:57 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 Conferences

A Look Back

As we hit that December downhill slide into conference play, we’re seeing the number of undefeated teams around the country decline. The Mountain West is no different, as their population of teams with unblemished records fell from three to two when UNLV got tripped up by a trip back east for an early-morning battle with Louisville. San Diego State and BYU remain undefeated, with each getting a win over a Pac-10 foe this week, and they’re gaining more and more national exposure [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #8 – Mountain West Conference

Brian Goodman — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:02:54 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 and Mountain West Conferences and an occasional contributor

Predicted Order of Finish

San Diego State (13-3) BYU (12-4) New Mexico (11-5) UNLV (11-5) Colorado State (9-7) Wyoming (6-10) Utah (6-10) TCU (3-13) Air Force (1-15)

All-Conference Team (key stats from last season in parentheses)

G: Jimmer Fredette, Sr, BYU (22.1 PPG, 4.7 APG) G: Dairese Gary, Sr, New Mexico (13.1 PPG, 3.9 APG) G: Tre’Von Willis, Sr, UNLV (17.2 PPG, 3.9 RPG) F: Afam Muojeke, Jr, Wyoming (16.8 PPG, 3.9 RPG) F: Kawhi Leonard, Soph, San Diego State [...]

Let’s Kick It Off: Observing a College Football Weekend Through A Hoops Lens

rtmsf — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:06:03 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-10 Conferences and an occasional contributor.

Hooray! Today is the official end of the Great Sports Desert – you know, that period of time between the first Monday in April and the first weekend of the college football season. Beginning tonight, there are actual meaningful sporting events that I am interested in. Let’s be clear, I love college football. Easily my second favorite sport. But, I’m a college hoops junkie first and foremost, and part of the reason I love the start of college football season [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

jstevrtc — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:06:46 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West Conference.

Standings (as of 2/18):

New Mexico 26-3 12-2 BYU 26-3 11-2 San Diego State 20-8 9-5 UNLV 21-7 9-5 Colorado State 15-12 6-7 Utah 13-14 6-7 TCU 12-16 4-9 Wyoming 9-18 2-11 Air Force 9-17 1-12

Superlatives:

Team of the Week. UNLV. The Rebels get the nod here (although it could just have easily been BYU) on the basis of two absolute blowout wins over lesser MWC teams. The Rebels never trailed in drilling Colorado State by 31 on Saturday, and then [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

jstevrtc — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:39:44 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West Conference.

Standings (as of 1/28):

BYU 20-2 5-1 New Mexico 19-3 5-2 UNLV 17-4 5-2 San Diego State 14-6 3-3 Colorado State 12-8 3-3 Utah 10-10 3-3 TCU 10-11 2-4 Wyoming 9-11 2-4 Air Force 8-11 0-6

Superlatives:

Team of the Week. New Mexico. For the second week in a row, it’s the Lobos who win this prize, with this week’s biggest scalp that of the number 12 team in the country, BYU. The Lobos have now won five games in a row [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

jstevrtc — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:29:13 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West Conference.

Standings (as of 1/14):

BYU 17-1 2-0 Colorado State 11-5 2-0 UNLV 14-3 2-1 TCU 9-8 2-1 Utah 8-8 1-1 New Mexico 15-3 1-2 San Diego State 12-5 1-2 Wyoming 8-9 1-2 Air Force 8-8 0-3

Superlatives:

Team of the Week. UNLV. The Rebels started the week 0-1 in conference, with a trip to The Pit looming and tough matchup with San Diego State in their home opener to follow. As we stand now, the Rebels have a two-game winning streak, hae started to [...]

Checking in on… the Mountain West

rtmsf — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:21:00 +0000

Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West Conference.

Standings (as of 12/4)

New Mexico 7-0 UNLV 6-0 BYU 5-1 San Diego State 5-2 TCU 5-3 Air Force 3-2 Colorado State 4-3 Utah 3-4 Wyoming 3-4

Superlatives

Team of the Week. UNLV – The Running Rebels had the toughest week of any Mountain West team, playing two down-to-the-wire games against two major national programs in Louisville and Arizona, and came through with their perfect record intact.

Player of the Week. Darrington Hobson, Jr, New Mexico – The nod goes to Hobson for the second week running, after he turned in [...]

ATB: Big Ten Victorious on Comeback Wednesday

rtmsf — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:07:03 +0000

Wisconsin: First RTC of the Season? If anyone knows of another one, let us know. But this is the first one we’ve seen this year. But c’mon Musberger, get it right! RUSH. THE. COURT. (Ed. note – apparently UNLV fans RTC’d on Saturday after defeating Louisville, which is about as unjustified of an RTC as we’ve ever heard of… goodness gracious, folks, it’s Vegas. And beating an overrated Louisville team excites you?)

Story of the Night. Big Ten Finally Gets Monkey Off Its Back. It didn’t turn out the way we thought it would tonight, but it did end up [...]

2009-10 Conference Primers: #7 – Mountain West

rtmsf — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:02:23 +0000

Andrew Murawa of The Great Leap Backward is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West Conference.

Predicted Order of Finish:

BYU 12-4 UNLV 11-5 San Diego State 10-6 Utah 10-6 New Mexico 9-7 TCU 7-9 Wyoming 6-10 Colorado State 5-11 Air Force 2-14

All-Conference Team:

Jimmer Fredette (G), Jr, BYU (16.2ppg, 4.0 apg) Carlon Brown (G), Jr, Utah (9.3 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 3.3 apg) Afam Muojeke (F), Soph, Wyoming (13.8 ppg, 5.3 rpg) Jonathan Tavernari (F), Sr, BYU (15.7 ppg, 7.2 rpg) Zvonko Buljan (C), Sr, TCU (12.3 ppg, 7.8 rpg)

6th Man: Billy White, Sr, San Diego State (8.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg)

Impact Newcomer: Derrick Jasper, Jr, UNLV

What You Need to Know. The Mountain West Conference is consistently one [...]

RTC 2009-10 Impact Players – Southwest Region

rtmsf — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:28:24 +0000

Ed. Note: the previous posts in this series (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Atlantic South, Deep South, Mid-South, Lower Midwest, Upper Midwest and Mountains) are located here.

It’s time for the ninth installment of our RTC 2009-10 Impact Players series, the group of hot, dry, desert-y states known as the Southwest Region. Each week we’ll pick a geographic area of the country and break down the five players who we feel will have the most impact on their teams (and by the transitive property, college basketball) this season. Our criteria is once again subjective – there are [...]

State Of The Big Blue Nation: Mood Indigo

jstevrtc — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:50:50 +0000

(OR, Why Rick Pitino Is Like School On Thanksgiving)

John Stevens is a featured writer for Rush The Court.

Kentucky basketball fans are wondering if they might have built their new state-of-the-art basketball practice facility on a Native American burial ground.

(photo credit: Kentucky.com)

As if the Wednesday night emasculation at South Carolina and yesterday’s home-court disappointment against LSU weren’t enough, two pieces of news are currently at the forefront of the collective mind of the Big Blue Nation, as Kentucky fans are known. First, it looks like Louisville Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino has decided to [...]