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“Boom goes the dynamite!”: 01.10.09 Early Edition

nvr1983 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:48:18 +0000

In our attempt to provide you with the best college basketball coverage on the Internet, RTC is starting the “Boom goes the dynamite!” project. Yes, it’s a blatant rip-off of Deadspin’s Hugh Johnson Project for college football, but we have found someone who does something similar for college basketball, which is a vastly superior sport. This will be an evolving project so you may see a complete different format next week or even tomorrow as we figure out how to make this better. One thing you may notice is that my coverage of the games on TV may be [...]

Feasting on Feast Week

rtmsf — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:38:27 +0000

John Stevens is a featured columnist for RTC. His columns will appear on Tuesdays throughout the season.

Ah, Thanksgiving week. As if ESPN’s 24-hour binge of college basketball last week wasn’t enough, here comes the oh-so-appropriately-named Feast Week, another avalanche of hoops awesomeness spread out over seven days that not only launches college basketball right back into the middle of the sports radar where it belongs, but also goes great with Thanksgiving leftovers, paid days off of work, as well as pizza and garlic bread (in case you’re sick of all that turkey by Saturday’s games). Aside from the [...]

2008-09 Conference Primers: #2 – Big 12

rtmsf — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:21:21 +0000

Patrick Marshall of Bluejay Basketball is the RTC correspondent for the Missouri Valley and Big 12 Conferences.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Texas (27-3, 14-2) Kansas (24-7, 14-2) Oklahoma (27-5, 13-3) Baylor (25-5, 12-4) Oklahoma St. (19-11, 8-8) Texas A&M (19-12, 7-9) Nebraska (18-11, 7-9) Missouri (18-13, 6-10) Kansas St. (18-13, 6-10) Iowa St. (16-16, 3-13) Texas Tech (15-16, 3-13) Colorado (14-16, 3-13)

What You Need to Know. Although Kansas won the National Championship last season in dramatic fashion, most of the team won’t be around to try to do the repeat shuffle like Florida did the previous two seasons. However, that doesn’t mean the Big 12 Conference won’t have an exciting season [...]