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RTC NBA Draft Profiles: Shelvin Mack

nvr1983 — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:00:55 +0000

Over the course of the next month until the NBA Draft on June 23, RTC will be rolling out comprehensive profiles of the 35 collegians we feel have the best chance to hear their names called by David Stern in the first round that night. There won’t be any particular order to the list, but you can scroll back through all the finished profiles by clicking here.

Player Name: Shelvin Mack

School: Butler

Height/Weight: 6’2, 210 lbs.

NBA Position: Point Guard

Projected Draft Range: Late First/Early Second Round

Overview: After spending his sophomore [...]

2011 World University Finalists – Will the Next NPOY Be Buried on the Bench Again?

rtmsf — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:23:40 +0000

As summer heats up, the various Team USA basketball rosters also start rounding into shape. One of the better such international events that includes collegians, the World University Games, is scheduled to occur from August 13-23 in Shenzhen, China. As such, the training camp roster of 22 current college players was released on Wednesday with a goal of cutting the group to a final 12 in late July. The remaining dozen will spend early August practicing as a team before traveling overseas to represent the United States in an event that hasn’t been kind to the Yanks in the last [...]

Morning Five: 06.08.11 Edition

jstevrtc — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:15:18 +0000

Bob Knight described the rule that a bunch of Ohio State football players broke when they sold some memorabilia for cash and tattoos as “idiotic” at a speaking engagement on Monday night. Listen, there’s no denying the man his rightful place on the Mt. Rushmore of college basketball coaches, but there are a few things about his bemoaning that rule that leave us unconvinced of his stance on it: 1) Coach Knight is an OSU alum; 2) he doesn’t strike us as the type of guy who prefers his players walking around with tattoos on their skin or cold rolls of [...]

Final Four Daily Diaries: Saturday

rtmsf — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:22:59 +0000

RTC is at the Final Four in Houston, our sixth as a fan but our first as a member of the working media. What that means, exactly, we’re still trying to figure out, but we think it has something to do with wearing a rectangular piece of plastic with our mug on it and nodding approvingly at the people in the NCAA blazers walking around the innards of Reliant Stadium. Or maybe it means dropping dime on one of the coaches at the dais for one thing or another — we’re not sure. Anyway, over [...]

Final Four Daily Diaries: Friday

rtmsf — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:00:14 +0000

NCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.31.11

Brian Goodman — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:29:22 +0000

Throughout the NCAA Tournament, we’ll be providing you with the daily chatter from around the webosphere relating to what’s going on with the teams still playing.

Butler

It seems like head coach Brad Stevens is getting as much attention for his glasses as he is for his coaching. Stevens is drawing comparisons to Clark Kent due to this look. “The Butler Way” consists of team-first basketball and an emphasis on defense. One columnist argues that it represents all that is right with sports. Cleveland State head coach Gary Waters believes that Horizon League foe Butler has a legitimate chance of winning the National Championship. [...]

NCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.29.11

Brian Goodman — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:41:15 +0000

Throughout the NCAA Tournament, we’ll be providing you with the daily chatter from around the webosphere relating to what’s going on with the teams still playing.

Butler

Head coach Brad Stevens believes that as long as he remains successful, he will keep being mentioned as a candidate for other jobs across the country. Stevens has been mentioned as a candidate for almost every major opening across the country, but the 34-year-old head coach is intensely focused on bringing the Bulldogs a title. Junior guard Ronald Nored lost his starting spot and has been mired in a long shooting slump this season. However, without the defensive [...]

It’s a Love/Hate Relationship: Volume XVI

jbaumgartner — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:16:33 +0000

Jesse Baumgartner is an RTC contributor. In this weekly piece he’ll review the five things he loved and hated about the previous seven days of college basketball. This week, Jesse longs for a 16 to beat a 1, discusses how that Butler win can keep on winning, and says it’s time to holiday-ify the first two rounds.

Five Things I Loved This Week

I LOVED…..Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith in the studio analyzing collegiate games. And frankly, anyone who doesn’t has no sense of humor. These guys have little idea what they’re doing, and [...]

Morning Five: 01.31.11 Edition

jstevrtc — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:05:20 +0000

Anyone who watched St. John’s take down Duke yesterday saw a strange and lethargic facsimile of the Blue Devil squad we’ve seen previously this year. That’s by no means an excuse and isn’t meant to take anything from the Johnnies’ victory, but before you fall victim to the tendency to put too much stake in one game and start selling your Duke stock, we offer you the calming tone of Mike Miller’s take at Beyond the Arc. By the way…whither the Red Storm? There are some bad losses there, but they have wins over Duke, Notre Dame, Georgetown, [...]

RTC’s Top 10 Moments of 2010

nvr1983 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:00:36 +0000

Ok. Maybe this is a little bit later than most of the 2010 retrospectives that you have seen over the past month or so, but just consider our countdown very thoroughly reviewed. We decided to focus on the defining moments of the past year. These weren’t necessarily the most exciting moments, but the ones that made us hold our breath, run around our respective RTC-funded mansions, bury our head in our hands, or reflect on the sport. Even though we think we did a good job of reviewing the biggest moments of the year and ranking them appropriately [...]

Boom Goes The Dynamite: ESPN’s 24 Hours Of Hoops Marathon 2010

jstevrtc — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:56:59 +0000

PUT. THAT COFFEE. DOWN.

For the third year in a row, ESPN is bringing us what we consider one of the great television events on the sports television calendar, the 24 Hours of Hoops Marathon. That means that for the third year in a row, I’ll be live-blogging the whole thing from start to finish — and this year, we’re climbing this hoops blogger’s Everest without supplemental oxygen. That is to say…I’m going caffeine-free. More importantly, here is the schedule of games for this year’s marathon (all times Eastern):

12:00 midnight — Miami (FL) at Memphis (ESPN) 2:00 [...]

Where 2010-11 Happens: Reason #1 Why We Love College Basketball

rtmsf — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:05:56 +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 [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #13 – Horizon League

Brian Goodman — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:05:37 +0000

Jimmy Lemke is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League.

Predicted Order of Finish

Butler (15-3) Cleveland State (12-6) Detroit (12-6) Milwaukee (11-7) Valparaiso (9-9) Wright State (9-9) Green Bay (8-10) UIC (7-11) Loyola (5-13) Youngstown State (2-16)

All-Conference Team

G: Shelvin Mack, Butler G: Norris Cole, Cleveland State F: Cory Johnson, Valparaiso F: Matt Howard, Butler C: Eli Holman, Detroit

6th Man

G: Brandon Wood, Valparaiso

Impact Newcomer

Paul Carter (F), UIC

What does Brad Stevens and Butler have in mind for an encore after their run to the title game?

What You Need To Know

All Horizon League games and most non-conference home games will be streamed live at HorizonLeague.org, the conference’s [...]

On the Record: 10.21.10 Edition

nvr1983 — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:00:15 +0000

In addition to our ongoing RTC Interview series there are plenty of other interviews going on across the country and as a way to get you ready for the season and into the minds of the coaches and players we will be bringing you a few of those interviews each week. If you know of any interviews that should be included in the next installment, please send them to rushthecourt@gmail.com.

ACC Media Day Chat – ESPN with an interesting idea of having various coaches and players from the ACC stop by and answer user-submitted questions. Q & A with Vernon [...]

Gus Johnson Wants to Do a Final Four — Please Let Him

rtmsf — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:20:24 +0000

Gus Johnson, doing his best to look like Fifty Cent’s dad in this video clip from Dime Magazine, riffs on numerous items including college basketball in this interview.

You can see the excitement beaming like laser beams from Johnson’s eyes when he mentions the unbelievable near-make by Butler’s Gordon Hayward at last year’s Final Four. Can you imagine all the CBS suits checking their work-site insurance policies to make sure that massive strokes by on-air talent are covered if Johnson had gotten the call to do that game? Maybe that’s why they will continue to stick us [...]