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NCAA Tournament Game Analysis: Second Round — Thursday Afternoon

Brian Otskey — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:05:02 +0000

RTC Region correspondents Brian Otskey (East), Kevin Doyle (South), and Andrew Murawa (West) contributed to this preview.

#6 Murray State vs. #11 Colorado State – West Region Second Round (at Louisville, KY) – 12:15 PM ET on CBS

Steve Prohm Brings His One-Loss Team to the Dance (US Presswire)

Anytime you enter the NCAA Tournament with just one loss and 4-0 record over NCAA Tournament teams, you’re a big story and a threat to go deep in the tournament. That’s the situation Murray State finds itself in. The fact that they’ve got a recent history of some [...]

Bracket Prep: UNC-Asheville, Murray State & Belmont

rtmsf — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:34:12 +0000

The first three NCAA Tournament bids were earned on Saturday afternoon, so as each of the 31 automatic qualifiers plays their way into the Dance over the next week, we’ll take some time to give you an analytical snapshot of each team that you can refer back to when you’re picking your brackets next weekend.

UNC Asheville

UNCA Was the First Team to Dance This Year (E. Brethauer/Citizen-Times)

Big South Champion (24-9, 19-2) RPI/Pomeroy/Sagarin = #108/#123/#128 Adjusted Scoring Margin = +4.7 Likely NCAA Seed: #16 (First Four)

Three Bruce Pearls of Wisdom.

UNC-Asheville is one of the smallest teams in America, sporting a starting lineup that [...]

ACC Morning Five: 02.02.12 Edition

mpatton — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:01:39 +0000

Before we get started, Ken Pomeroy offered a very good counter to the flood of compliments about Frank Haith‘s coaching against Texas. It’s worth a read, and I totally agree with it (I’d also add that Rick Barnes’ teams aren’t known for their in-game adjustments).

Winston-Salem Journal: The ACC is struggling with attendance. While Wake Forest reported nearly 13,000 on hand for the North Carolina game, multiple reporters brought light to the large number of empty seats in Lawrence Joel Coliseum. Against North Carolina that shouldn’t happen, even in a bad season. Down in Coral Gables, a “numbers-cruncher” (for the record, [...]

ATB: Michigan Shuts Down MSU, Florida State Scores, and Anthony Davis’ Block Record…

rtmsf — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:31:41 +0000

Tonight’s Lede. It wasn’t the best night of college basketball we’ve ever witnessed, but as always, the storylines were plentiful. We’d love to walk you through the Michigan-MSU rivalry game that went down to the wire, Florida State’s newfound affinity for offense, Western Carolina’s embarrassing 102-point victory, and some other things… but Anthony Davis just swatted away our train of thought.

Your Watercooler Moment. Michigan-Michigan State Rivalry Heats Up On and Off the Court.

College Basketball Is Better When Both Michigan Schools Are Elite (K. Dozier/DFP)

In anticipation of his rivalry game with Michigan tonight, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo made his [...]

North Carolina More Dominant Against UNC Asheville Than It Seemed

KCarpenter — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:15:56 +0000

Kimmel Arena opened up in style. The UNC Asheville Bulldogs hosted the North Carolina Tar Heels in a brand new building that was packed with loud and enthusiastic fans. Bruce Hornsby, whose son, Keith, plays for Asheville, kicked things off with a jazzy piano rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner. The second he stopped, the Bulldogs’ fans cheered as consistently loud and as hard as any crowd in college sports can in an effort to inspire the upset against the nation’s #1 team. As well as the defending Big South champions played, however, and as fantastic as the crowd was on [...]

RTC Conference Primers: #26 – Big South Conference

Brian Goodman — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:38:00 +0000

Mark Bryant, Big South Director of Multimedia Development and writer of BigSouthSHOUT, is the RTC correspondent for the Big South Conference. You can find him on Twitter at @BigSouthSports

Reader’s Take I

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Top Storylines

Mountain High Expectations: Will UNC Asheville hold serve as the favorite, now that the team is no longer in its typical role as the scrappy underdog? Observers and opponents will not have their focus elsewhere this year, and Asheville will be showing off a new arena, no longer in the extra-cozy confines of the Justice Center which always provided a significant home court edge. New to the Big [...]

RTC Summer Updates: Big South Conference

Brian Goodman — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:08:36 +0000

With the completion of the NBA Draft and the annual coaching and transfer carousels nearing their ends, RTC is rolling out a new series, RTC Summer Updates, to give you a crash course on each Division I conference during the summer months. Our latest update comes courtesy of our Big South correspondent, Mark Bryant.

Reader’s Take

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Summer Storylines

New Kids On The Block: The most obvious changes from last hoops season to the one upcoming are the new faces in the Big South Conference. First and foremost, there’s a whole new team to account [...]

NCAA Daily Diaries: First Four – Tuesday

rtmsf — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:40:34 +0000

RTC will be covering the NCAA Tournament from cover to cover this year, with correspondents at each of the fourteen sites over the next three weeks. These diaries are intended to give you insights to the games, coaches, players, fans media and everything else that you wouldn’t otherwise have known simply from watching on television. As always, feel free to offer suggestions for feedback in future versions that we can pass along to our correspondents. Here’s Tuesday’s Diary from Dayton…

The First Four, Tuesday – by John Stevens

What a privilege to be in attendance for history. Assuming [...]

NCAA Game Analysis: First Four – Tuesday

Brian Otskey — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:00:47 +0000

Love it or hate it, it’s here to stay so we may as well get used to it. The road from 68 pretenders to 16 contenders begins on Tuesday night at the First Four in Dayton, and we’ll be breaking down every game for you throughout. Here’s tonight’s two games, and keep in mind that we’ll have a correspondent with RTC Live at every single game in this year’s Big Dance.

#16 UNC-Asheville vs. #16 Arkansas-Little Rock – Southeast Region First Round (at Dayton, OH) – 6:30 pm ET on truTV.

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Set Your Tivo: 03.05.11

Brian Otskey — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:00:05 +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.

The final Saturday of the regular season [...]

Big South Wrap & Tourney Preview

Brian Goodman — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:43:05 +0000

Mark Bryant is the RTC correspondent for the Big South Conference. Get up to speed for the Big South conference tournament with the RTC conference wrap-up and tournament preview before it tips Tuesday night.

Power Rankings/Tournament Preview

The Big South tournament winner could receive as high as a 13-seed if Coastal Carolina parlays its regular season success into an automatic Tournament bid, but if there’s an upset along the way, a 16-seed could be more probable.

1. Coastal Carolina (26-4, 16-2) – Cliff Ellis and The Chanticleers plowed through the season’s first few months, garnering AP [...]

Checking in on… the Big South

Brian Goodman — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:00:25 +0000

Mark Bryant is the RTC correspondent for the Big South.

A Look Back

Showdown Results: Coastal Carolina and Liberty have made it abundantly clear they are the top two teams in the Big South Conference this season, with both teams setting a blistering pace and staying three-plus games ahead of all other teams. But the squads have now faced off twice this season, with the Chanticleers getting the better of the Flames both times, extending Coastal’s win streak to 19 and keeping CCU undefeated in conference as of this writing Traffic Jam: After those top two teams, there is quite the [...]

Checking in on… the Big South

Brian Goodman — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:07:50 +0000

Mark Bryant, Coordinator of New Media for the Big South Conference and writer of Big South SHOUT, is an RTC correspondent. [ed. note: this post was written prior to the Nov. 26-28 games]

A Look Back

V = 5: For the first time in modern era play, VMI has opened its season 5-0. While none of these victories have been great shockers or eye-openers, it remains an attention-grabbing start—the best opening run in the Big South this year. That jumpstart will be tested with a road trip to West Virginia. Hello, There!: The Big South has had [...]

Checking in on… the Big South

rtmsf — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:15:32 +0000

Mark Bryant, Coordinator of New Media for the Big South Conference and writer of Big South SHOUT, is an RTC correspondent.

Standings

Coastal Carolina 11-3 / 21-5 Radford 10-4 / 14-10 Winthrop 9-4 / 13-10 UNC Asheville 8-6 / 11-14 High Point 7-6 / 12-12 Liberty 7-6 / 12-13 Charleston Southern 6-8 / 11-13 VMI 4-10/ 9-15 Gardner-Webb 4-10/ 7-17 Presbyterian College 2-11/ 4-21

Top Storylines

Coastal Holds Serve, Radford Keeps Pace. No, the Chanticleers couldn’t make it through unscathed, but they’re still rolling strong in the lead at 11-3 in the Big South. As of February 12th, Coastal had not yet [...]

2009-10 Conference Primers: #23 – Big South

rtmsf — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:14:31 +0000

Mark Bryant, the Coordinator of New Media for the Big South Conference and writer of Big South SHOUT, is an RTC correspondent.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Radford (14-4) UNC Asheville (12-6) Winthrop (12-6) Gardner-Webb (10-8) VMI (9-9) High Point (9-9) Liberty (8-10) Coastal Carolina (7-11) Charleston Southern (6-12) Presbyterian College (3-15)

All-Conference Team:

Jamarco Warren (G), Jr., Charleston Southern Grayson Flittner (G), Sr., Gardner-Webb Joseph Harris (F), R-Sr., Coastal Carolina Joey Lynch-Flohr (F), Sr., Radford Art Parakhouski (C), Sr., Radford

6th Man. Nick Barbour (G), Soph, High Point

Impact Newcomer. Lazar Trifunovic (F), Jr., Radford (transfer from Binghamton)

What You Need to Know. Ask any of [...]