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Make Your Case: USC Trojans

jstevrtc — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:25:34 +0000

It’s back. Around this time of year we like to yield the soapbox to representatives of bubble teams and give them the opportunity to explain to the hooping nation why their team should be granted admission into the NCAA Tournament. We encourage them to be as irrational and nonpartisan as they want. As always, feel free to tell us how you think they did in the comments section. If you’d like to make the case for your school, send us an e-mail at JStevRTC@gmail.com and we’ll hear your preliminary arguments.

Taking up the argument for USC [...]

USC Hoops Should Be Thanking Gerrity, Johnson, and Lewis

jstevrtc — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:36:54 +0000

USC received the official response from the NCAA regarding penalties to the men’s basketball team. Jeff Goodman from FoxSports.com posted a good succinct rundown of USC’s self-imposed penalties plus what the NCAA added today. The penalties as described below are paraphrased from his article, but you should check out his article by clicking the link above.

Was it worth it?

Here is how USC stuck it to itself in the middle of last season:

They ditched one scholarship from last year and this upcoming season, They reduced by one the number of coaches who could hit [...]

Checking in on… the Pac-10

rtmsf — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:05:11 +0000

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

Standings

California (12-5, 20-9) Arizona State (10-6, 20-9) Washington (9-7, 19-9) USC (8-8, 16-12) Arizona (8-8, 14-14) UCLA (8-8, 13-15) Oregon State (7-9, 13-15) Stanford (7-10, 13-16) Washington State (6-10, 16-12) Oregon (6-10, 14-14)

It may not have been the type of season that Cal head coach Mike Montgomery envisioned at the start of the year when his Golden Bears and their five returning starters were ranked in the top 15, but as the calendar page gets flipped to the only month that really matters in college basketball, his team has just finished clinching at least [...]

Ten Tuesday Scribbles…

zhayes9 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:56:43 +0000

RTC contributor and bracketologist Zach Hayes will deliver ten permeating thoughts every Tuesday as the season progresses.

1. More than the countless Big East tournament runs at the Garden, or the contention for conference regular season titles on a yearly basis, or reaching upper-echelon status in college basketball playing with no flashy All-American recruits, Jamie Dixon is proving his worth as a coach this year more than ever. Few teams lost as much talent, leadership, and production as senior point guard Levance Fields, dominating big man DeJuan Blair and outside threat Sam Young. The departure of these [...]

Ten Tuesday Scribbles…

zhayes9 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:09:50 +0000

RTC contributor and bracketologist Zach Hayes will deliver ten permeating thoughts every Tuesday as the season progresses.

1. The most competitive conference in the land this season should spark the most competitive Player of the Year race come March. Top-seeded Kansas boasts three potential candidates once center Cole Aldrich starts to play with a more aggressive mentality on the offensive end. Senior point guard Sherron Collins has the skill set to explode come conference play and should provide the Jayhawks with more than one clutch play the season wears on. Freshman Xavier Henry has surpassed everyone’s expectations [...]

ATB: Holiday Hoops (what little there was)

rtmsf — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:17:58 +0000

A Weekend So Quiet, Not Even a Mouse... Yeah, it was a holiday weekend filled with high-calorie food, insane family members and yet another sweater that we don’t need, but college hoops was on the back burner with only a smattering of games throughout. There were, however, a few games that we need to get you caught up on, so here goes…

Game of the Weekend/RTC Live. #6 West Virginia 90, Seton Hall 84 (OT). A modern arena packed with hometown fans so hungry for a win you could hear it in their cheers and [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: 12.19.09

jstevrtc — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:46:12 +0000

Welcome back! Another weekend means another edition of everyone’s favorite college basketball live blog. Assuming they all actually happen (there was, like, a huge snowstorm, you see), there are actually some pretty darn good games happening today (Michigan at Kansas, anyone? Maybe a little Xavier at Butler?), and since we know you’ll be watching, and we know we’ll be watching…why not watch with us? We’ll be commenting all day, but we want to know what your thoughts are on the games as they’re being played. So keep checking this space and hitting that refresh button, and let’s have [...]

Checking in on… the Pac-10

rtmsf — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:31:05 +0000

Ryan ZumMallen of LBPostSports is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 and Big West conferences.

Player of the Week. Nic Wise (Arizona) – The 5-foot-10 warrior has willed the Wildcats to a few victories this season and posted 19.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists this week with a loss to Oklahoma and a win over 7-2 Louisiana Tech that could point Arizona in the right direction going into a tough stretch of the schedule. Some players score more points, but no player means more to his team than Wise does. He absolutely belongs in the Pac-10’s [...]

Checking in on… the Pac-10

rtmsf — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:14:25 +0000

Ryan ZumMallen of LBPostSports.com is the RTC correspondent for the Big West and Pac-10 Conferences.

Sometimes it’s not so painful to watch a once proud and mighty warrior fall from grace, as it is bizarre. You may be able to accept that nothing lasts forever, and that eventually the tide must turn. But it’s one thing to have a rebuilding year, and quite another to be a national laughingstock. Yet, that term best describes the way that Pac-10 teams have performed so far in this early season. It also describes the way that the conference’s flagship program, [...]

RTC 2009-10 Impact Players – Wrap-Up

rtmsf — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:02:32 +0000

Over the course of the last ten weeks we’ve broken down sixty players from around the country whom we expect will have the biggest impact on college basketball this season. We performed this exercise geographically, choosing five high-major and one mid-major player from each of the somewhat arbitrary ten regions of the country. If you’d like to read through the individual regions (and we highly encourage that), you can check all ten here.

If you don’t have the time or inclination to read through all of the previous posts, we’ll summarize here for you by [...]

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 [...]

Tim Floyd’s Rollercoaster Ride at USC

rtmsf — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:59:44 +0000

It’s gearing up as another interesting offseason for Tim Floyd at USC. For the second consecutive year, with the news that Demar DeRozan, Daniel Hackett and Taj Gibson are going pro, he’ll be losing a significant portion of his team to NBA early entry after another relatively disappointing campaign. (note: we’re sorry, but if you lose potentially five draft picks in two seasons and win only one NCAA Tournament game in that period, that’s really disappointing). And guess what, probable one-and-doner Renardo Sidney is set to arrive on campus in 2009-10, further contributing to the problem that Floyd [...]

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 [...]

Checking in on the… Pac-10

nvr1983 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:46:49 +0000

Michael Hurley is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 Conference.

News & Notes

Lute Olson compiled a 43-6 record against Arizona State. Since he took a leave of absence last year, Arizona is 0-4 against the Sun Devils. Against ASU, Jordan Hill, Chase Budinger, and Nic Wise all logged 40 minutes. For the year the three are each averaging over 35 minutes a game. They are the only team in the Pac-10 with three players averaging over 35 minutes a game. Come Pac-10 tournament time these three horses have to be tiring. Oregon State swept the season series against Cal for [...]

Checking in on the… Pac-10

rtmsf — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:53:03 +0000

Michael Hurley is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 Conference.

Pac-10 Tidbits.

Freshman extraordinaire Isaiah Thomas is averaging 16.5 points a game for Washington. His 413 points so far on the season are the second-highest point total for a freshman in Washington history. Jon Brockman is putting together another solid season for the Huskies. Against Oregon he registered his 54th double-double of his career. That is the most of any active player. Jon Brockman, Washington 54 John Bryant, Santa Clara 45 Jeff Adrien, Connecticut 44 Luke Harangody, Notre Dame 43 Tyler Hansbrough, UNC 41 Brockman also holds the Washinton career record for rebounds with 1,159 [...]