define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); great west conference – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:29:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court The Great West Conference Finds a Home For Its Champion http://rushthecourt.net/2009/09/29/the-great-west-conference-finds-a-home-for-its-champion/ http://rushthecourt.net/2009/09/29/the-great-west-conference-finds-a-home-for-its-champion/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:12:37 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=11361

Last year we brought you news about the creation of the newest Division I basketball conference, the Great West Conference, which will start organized operations this season. As we noted at the time, the league wasn’t exactly a “Who’s Who” of basketball powerhouses. In fact, the most notable program in the league was the New Jersey Institute of Technology, which went 0-29 in the 2007-2008 season before finally winning a game last season.

The full list of GWC members:

Chicago State University Houston Baptist University New Jersey Institute of Technology University of North Dakota University of South Dakota University of Texas-Pan American Utah Valley University

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Several sources today are announcing the formation of the 32d Division 1 league, the Great West Conference, which will begin organized basketball operations in the 2009-10 season.  You may recall that the GWC already exists in football as a transitional league between D2 and D1-AA (or whatever they’re calling it now).  The basketball counterparts at most of these schools have largely been relegated to the dreaded Independent status, which forces those teams to schedule games anytime, anywhere, anyplace, in order to complete a full schedule.  One of these teams, the much-maligned New Jersey Tech, made infamy last year with an 0-29 season, [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2008/09/27/great-west-conference-another-play-in-game-on-the-horizon/feed/ 0