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Conference Report Card: ACC

Brian Goodman — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:05:37 +0000

Matt Patton is the RTC correspondent for the ACC.

Conference Recap

The ACC had a down year though North Carolina’s Kendall Marshall-led resurgence and Florida State’s Sweet Sixteen appearance helped a little bit. Before and during the season, Duke was the runaway favorite in the conference: Kyrie Irving’s toe injury obviously was the pivotal point that brought Duke back down to earth. Equally pivotal (in the reverse direction) was Marshall’s move to starting point guard for North Carolina. With Larry Drew II at the helm, there is no way the Tar Heels could have come close to surpassing Duke for [...]

Set Your Tivo: 03.11.11

Brian Otskey — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:00:18 +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.

One auto bid and a host of major conference [...]

Checking in on… the ACC

Brian Goodman — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:03:33 +0000

Matt Patton is the RTC correspondent for the ACC.

A Look Back

Hold onto your seats, Hokie fans, you’re on the right side of the bubble after a statement win against Duke this week. Virginia Tech’s win was just what the doctor ordered, but the Hokies are far from a lock (for everyone but Dickie V). The Hokies won despite a very poor night from star Malcolm Delaney, who did hit a huge three late but was otherwise ineffective. Jeff Allen picked up any slack Delaney left, finishing with 18 points and 15 boards. But the [...]

Set Your Tivo: 02.08.11

Brian Otskey — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:59:18 +0000

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.

An intriguing non-conference game, Bruce Pearl’s return and an [...]

Set Your Tivo: 01.11.11

Brian Otskey — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:01:46 +0000

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.

Three key conference clashes from different leagues take place [...]

RTC Live: Providence @ Boston College

zhayes9 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:29:28 +0000

Game #66. RTC Live is back in Chestnut Hill for what has become a very interesting matchup as the early season has worn on.

This year’s edition of New England’s finest hoops rivalry gets underway tonight at 7 PM ET when Providence travels north to face Boston College at Conte Forum. While both teams were considered long shots to make the NCAA Tournament before the season, the Friars (9-1) and Eagles (6-2) are off to surprising starts. Providence’s #99 ranking in defensive efficiency is a dramatic improvement from last year’s squad and the Friars have [...]

RTC Instant Analysis: Evening Games

nvr1983 — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:08:29 +0000

As part of our on-going attempt to bring you the best college basketball coverage on-line, we are introducing a new feature where we give your our thoughts after each set of games over the weekend. We’ll be back later tonight for the late game analysis.

Illinois is back: Illinois might have missed the NCAA Tournament last year, but this year they should be a Sweet 16 team and have an outside shot of making the Final Four. Much like Florida, who actually made the NCAA Tournament last year, the Fighting Illini did not that much in terms of new [...]

Set Your Tivo: Turkey Day Edition

Brian Otskey — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:37:31 +0000

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.

Be sure to check out some games from the Old [...]

RTC 2010-11 Impact Players: National Wrap-Up

rtmsf — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:56:30 +0000

Over the past month-plus, we’ve been presenting our RTC Impact Players for the 2010-11 season. From coast to coast and the Canadian border down to Mexico, we’ve selected the sixty players nationally who we believe will have the most impact on the game this year. Each of the ten geographic regions was allotted five “starters” and a “sixth man,” an artificial construct that was easy to fill in some areas while much more difficult in some of the others. In case you’ve missed the series along the way, this post will serve as your wrap-up. We’re rank-ordering the [...]

RTC 2010-11 Impact Players – Northeast Region

rtmsf — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:38:58 +0000

It’s October. The leaves are starting to turn colors. Halloween candy is already in the stores. There have been a few nights where you may have even turned on the heat. Midnight Madness is less than two weeks away and RTC is ready to jump into the 2010-11 Season Preview materials headfirst, like a ten-foot stack of those leaves that you just raked into a giant pile. For the second October in a row, we’re going to bring you our RTC Impact Players series. The braintrust has gone back and forth on this throughout September and we’ve finally settled [...]

20 At The Top: ACC Player Rankings

zhayes9 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:45:19 +0000

Zach Hayes is an editor, contributor and bracketologist at Rush the Court.

For the entire 20 At The Top series, click here.

Over the next six Fridays this summer, I’ll have the honor of taking you through the top 20 players in each major conference in college basketball. The list is a combination of many factors: production, expectations, ceiling, skill set, statistics, efficiency, basically anything under the sun that a college basketball fan like myself obsesses over during the dog days of summer. Hopefully healthy debate is opened up in the comments section. Without further ado, here’s my ACC [...]

ACC Tourney Daily Diary: 1st Round

nvr1983 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:56:19 +0000

In our attempt to bring you the most comprehensive Championship Week coverage anywhere, RTC is covering several of the conference tournaments from the sites. One of our RTC correspondents is at the ACC Tournament. In addition to live-blogging select games throughout the tournament, he will post a nightly diary with his thoughts on each day’s action. Here is his submission for the 1st round games.

Virginia 68, Boston College 62

Virginia was playing without second team all-ACC Sylven Landesberg, who was suspended by head coach Tony Bennett for the remainder of the season due to academic [...]

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 [...]

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’s 2009-10 Impact Players – Northeast Region

zhayes9 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:14:32 +0000

Yesterday the calendar moved into September and we’re all foaming at the mouth around here to get started on the 2009-10 season preview materials, but we realize it doesn’t make much sense to start really gearing up on that until October. Nevertheless, one feature we want to start that we’ll be publishing weekly all the way up to the start of the season is our RTC 2009-10 Impact Players series. Each week we’re going to pick a geographic area of the country and break down the five players who we feel will have the most impact on [...]