define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); jason hart – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:09:01 +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 Forget Dunk City, Andy Enfield Is Off to a Great Start at USC http://rushthecourt.net/2013/04/17/forget-dunk-city-andy-enfield-is-off-to-a-great-start-at-usc/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/04/17/forget-dunk-city-andy-enfield-is-off-to-a-great-start-at-usc/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:30:06 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=96694

Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. 

For all the high-flying showmanship and unexpected brilliance of Florida Gulf Coast’s NCAA Tournament run, and the commensurately growing coaching legend of Eagles head man Andy Enfield, there were skeptics, and most of those skeptics brought forth the same boring but altogether legitimate grievance. Are we really supposed to believe a one-week wonder from Fort Myers, Florida has all of a sudden, by virtue of a fluky Cinderella run, morphed into a prime candidate for a high-profile power conference job? Who made Enfield the next great on-court tactician, something more [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2013/04/17/forget-dunk-city-andy-enfield-is-off-to-a-great-start-at-usc/feed/ 0 USC Post-Mortem http://rushthecourt.net/2013/04/16/usc-post-mortem/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/04/16/usc-post-mortem/#respond Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:21:43 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=96672

Now that we are officially in the offseason, it’s time to take a look back and evaluate each team’s 2012-13 performance. Next on our list: USC.

What Went Wrong

The biggest thing that went wrong were lofty expectations for a group of mostly transfers who had failed to have any success as a group in any of their previous stops. Despite the fact that this was a program coming off a six-win season, instead of playing with a chip on their collective shoulders, this team came out not just softly but selfishly. They went to a Maui Invitational with hopes of establishing themselves [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2013/04/16/usc-post-mortem/feed/ 0