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UCLA Week: Evaluating the Recent Past

AMurawa — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:01:26 +0000

There are no two ways around it, so we might as well get right to the punch: The past three seasons at UCLA, even with an NCAA Tournament appearance and win in 2010-11, is in the conversation for the worst stretch of three consecutive seasons in the history of the storied program. Aside from the transition at the end of the Steve Lavin era to the beginning of the Ben Howland era, you have to go back to Wilbur Johns in the World War II era for a string of three such poor seasons in Westwood. All that is bad [...]

NCAA Preview: UCLA Bruins

nvr1983 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:40:52 +0000

UCLA (#6, East, Philadelphia pod)

vs. Virginia Commonwealth (#11) Mar. 19 @ 9:50pm

Vegas Line: UCLA -7

Thanks to Vegas Watch for providing these graphs that measure the moving average of a team’s spread (moving avg.) over time vs. the spread for each individual game (indiv). If a team’s moving average is higher than zero, then Vegas currently has a higher opinion of them than Pomeroy, and vice versa.

General Profile

Location: Los Angeles, CA Conference: Pac 10 Coach: Ben Howland, 149-53 08-09 Record: 25-8 (13-5 in the Pac 10) Last 12 Games: 8-4 Best Win: 85-76 vs. Washington, February 19 Worst Loss: [...]

Pac-10 Wrapup & Tourney Preview

nvr1983 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:33:33 +0000

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

Pac-10 Final Regular Season Standings 1. Washington 14-4, 24-7 2. UCLA 13-5, 24-7 3. Arizona State 11-7, 22-8 4. California 11-7, 22-9 5. Arizona 9-9, 19-12 6. USC 9-9, 18-12 7. Washington State 8-10, 16-14 8. Oregon State 7-11, 13-16 9. Stanford 6-12, 17-12 10. Oregon 2-16, 8-22

Player of the Year: James Harden The third sophomore in Pac-10 history to win player of the year. The others were Jason Kidd (1994) and Mike Bibby (1998). Harden is also the third ASU player to win it following Ike Diogu (2005) and Eddie [...]

Checking in on the… Pac-10

nvr1983 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:30:59 +0000

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

News & Notes

Washington has clinched their first regular season Pac-10 title since 1985 and with a win against Washington State can clinch their first outright conference title since 1953. Washington State’s first senior class of Taylor Rochestie, Aron Baynes, Caleb Forest, and Daven Harmeling is its first to defeat all nine Pac-10 rivals since 1989. Darren Collison is shooting 91.8 percent (89-for-97) from the free-throw line this year good for second in the nation, and second on the UCLA all-time single-season chart. It may not make Oregon feel any better, [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: 02.28.09 Edition

rtmsf — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:05:44 +0000

Welcome back to Boom Goes the Dynamite. It’s Noon eastern and it’s Saturday, so that means we’re affixed to the couch for the rest of the weekend. The day gets off to a little bit of a slow start, but keep in mind that RTC Live will be coming to you from Gampel Pavilion at UConn at 2pm, and we’ll be here for the rest of the action today (all 135 games). Let’s get it going…

12:17pm. We’ve got Villanova – Georgetown on ESPN and Cleveland St. – Butler on ESPN2 right now. UNC – [...]

ATB: How Much to Rent Their Gym Out?

rtmsf — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:40:59 +0000

We Think We Played This Team in Church League Ball One Year. Seriously, our Google machine is broken… can anyone explain what this is? Southwest Assemblies of God????

Left Coast Hoops. There were three really good games in the Pac-10 tonight.

Washington 73, Arizona St. 70 (OT). UW got a big win over its nearest competitor for the Pac-10 crown behind Jon Brockman’s 21/11 and Quincy Pondexter’s 10/12. ASU came back from 13 down in the first half and appeared to have the momentum when the Sun Devils stole the ball from Justin Dentmon [...]

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 [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: 02.21.09 Edition

rtmsf — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:06:50 +0000

It’s BracketBuster Saturday, and we’re back with another compelling edition of Boom Goes the Dynamite. We don’t know how it is where you live today, but it’s rainy and chilly here at the RTC Western Compound, which means it’s a great day for huddling up on the couch, firing up the three tvs, ordering up some pie and watching hoops all day. There are some pretty strong games on the slate today, starting with Butler v. Davidson early and finishing with BYU v. UNLV late. Settle in and feel free to make your own observations in [...]

ATB: Who Wants the Pac-10 Title?

rtmsf — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:34:06 +0000

Farking. The Word is Farking, Roy. From last night’s post-game press conference vs. NC State. So Coach, why didn’t you press Miami again?

Game of the Night. UCLA 85, Washington 76. This game was essentially for the top of the Pac-10, because if Washington had won it would have been nearly impossible for UCLA to catch them in the remaining two weekends. The Bruins therefore did exactly what they needed to do, essentially outscoring the Huskies in a key stretch of the late second half behind a Darren Collison mini-run and Josh Shipp’s [...]

Set Your Tivos: 02.07.09

nvr1983 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:59:43 +0000

I’m not sure why everyone complains about February. Sure the NFL season is over, but at least we don’t need to hear about steroids, holdouts, and whether or not both feet were in bounds. There isn’t a blockbuster “Game of the Year” match-up today, but there are several solid games for the hoops aficionado. So just settle into your favorite spot on the couch and dig in. In the spirit of promoting healthy habits, we suggest that you try to have some vegetables today so use some ketchup on your food today.

#20 Syracuse at #16 Villanova at Noon [...]

Checking in on the… Pac-10

nvr1983 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:29:04 +0000

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

News and Notes

Arizona State‘s Rihards Kuksiks leads the nation in 3-point percentage, but is only third in the Pac-10. How is that possible? Well NCAA statistical leaders need to make a minimum of 2.5 per game from three-point range to qualify, while Pac-10 needs to make one per game and play in 75 percent of the team’s games. Theo Robertson is shooting 56.2% and Michael Roll is shooting 54.5%, both ahead of Kuksiks’s 46.7%. Either way Kuksiks has had a tough time the past two games going 3-for-20 [...]

Set Your Tivos: 02.04.09

nvr1983 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:16:15 +0000

After last night’s relatively weak slate of games, we’re back to normal tonight with a great set of games.

Game of the Day #3 Duke at #10 Clemson at 9 PM on ESPN and ESPN360.com: Our second top 10 match-up of the week. Once again the road team is the higher ranked team, but I feel like this time they are also the favorites coming in to the game. All of you know about Duke by now thanks to their frequent appearances on national TV so I will keep it brief. Kyle Singler and Gerald Henderson have emerged as their [...]

Checking in on the… Pac-10

rtmsf — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:45:37 +0000

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

News & Notes.

California’s 66.7% from the field against Oregon was the best any Pac-10 team has registered in conference play this year. Theo Robertson of the Golden Bears still leads the nation in 3-point percentage shooting at a 55.2% clip. Patrick Christopher is just 13 points shy of 1000, at 987. Jerome Randle is right behind at 957. Randle also is ninth in career 3-point field goals made at 125, and tenth in career assists with 313. Randle is also first in career free-throw percentage at 85.7%. This is just the third [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: 01.24.09

nvr1983 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:15:19 +0000

After my trip to Chapel Hill last weekend where rtmsf handled all of the duties for Boom Goes the Dynamite while I mingled with ESPN personalities and college basketball stars, I will be in charge of today’s edition while rtmsf does relationship stuff with his significant other. Pretty weak if you ask me. . .

11:00 AM: Although we are a men’s college basketball site, we feel that it’s appropriate to mention the passing of Kay Yow, the former NC State coach, to breast cancer (or more precisely complications related to breast cancer). We can’t really do justice to [...]

Set Your Tivos: 01.24.09 & 01.25.09

nvr1983 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:15:17 +0000

Check in with RTC on Saturday all day long as we piggyback the slowly burning wick of Boom Goes the Dynamite, your virtually live weekly journal of notes and observations about the day’s biggest games.

Saturday Game of the Day #3 UConn at #19 Notre Dame at 7 PM on ESPN and ESPN360.com: The Irish will be looking to bounce back from consecutive road losses (at Louisville and at Syracuse), but that will be a tall task (insert Hasheem Thabeet joke here) against UConn–a team that many consider the best in the Big East (not just based on ranking). Reigning Big East [...]