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Big East M5: 10.25.13 Edition

Dan Lyons — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:42:56 +0000

Change is in the air at Creighton, and not just in terms of the league in which the Bluejays will compete this year. The school recently held an open house to unveil a new court, featuring a revised logo. Replacing the ‘Jays’ that once adorned the hardwood is a new Billy Bluejay head design over a bold capital ‘C’. This unveiling is a part of a full branding initiative by Creighton, which will include a new Billy Bluejay mascot design, in an effort to solidify the school’s visibility in the college basketball world. Associate athletic director Mark Burgers referred to the branding [...]

Marquette’s Buzz Williams Runs Silent and Deep

CNguon — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:01:13 +0000

Joseph Dzuback is an RTC correspondent. He filed this report after spending an evening keeping a close eye on Marquette head coach Buzz Williams.

Why does Marquette, a school about to earn consecutive NCAA bid #8, still struggle to secure a spot in the national limelight? Part of the answer is no doubt rooted in their coach. Buzz Williams, 5’11” with that North Texas drawl, is hardly a presence at Media Day confabs. Unlike Marquette’s legendary Al McGuire, whose height and New York City accent (and ever so slightly too-loud voice) could turn heads and draw ears. Tom Crean, Marquette’s 15th [...]

RTC Conference Primer: #2 – Big East

Brian Goodman — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:13:37 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin’ is a Habit is the Big East correspondent for Rush The Court.

Predicted Order of Finish

1. Villanova (15-3) T2. Pittsburgh (14-4) T2. Syracuse (14-4) 4. Georgetown (12-6) T5. West Virginia (11-7) T5. Marquette (11-7) 7. Seton Hall (10-8) T8. Notre Dame (9-9) T8. St. John’s (9-9) T10. Connecticut (8-10) T10. Louisville (8-10) T12. South Florida (7-11) T12. Cincinnati (7-11) T14. Providence (3-15) T14. Rutgers (3-15) T14. DePaul (3-15)

All-Conference Team (key stats from last season in parentheses)

G: Corey Fisher, Villanova (13.3 ppg, 3.9 apg, 2.8 rpg) G: Kemba Walker, UConn (14.6 ppg, 5.1 apg, 4.3 rpg, 2.1 spg) F: Austin Freeman, Georgetown (16.5 ppg, 3.5 [...]

Summer School in the Big East

Brian Goodman — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:26:04 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin’ is a Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.

Around The Big East:

NCAA Sanctions: From a basketball perspective, the biggest story in the Big East this summer was up at UConn. The Huskies received a notice of allegations from the NCAA in May, informing them of eight major violations in the recruitment of Nate Miles. UConn will find out its final punishment from the NCAA in October, but the violations have already cost them two assistants — Beau Archibald and Brad Sellers, the son of former [...]

2010 NBA Draft Winners and Losers

zhayes9 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:51:45 +0000

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

Now that the Draft is complete, time to look back at Thursday night’s winners and losers, from coaches to NBA teams to players to conferences and everything in between:

Paul George saw his stock skyrocket all the way to #10 and the Pacers, Al Bello/Getty Images

Winners:

Big 12 – One of the premier college basketball conferences has gained quite a surge of momentum in the last few weeks. Big 12 commish Dan Beebe convinced Texas it was in their best [...]

Boom Goes The Dynamite: First Round 03.18.10 Edition

jstevrtc — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:15:43 +0000

Best first flight of games ever? It just might be. Right now the Selection Committee are looking like a bunch of geniuses. We have confidence in the second flight of games bringing some excitement, too. We popped for the DirecTV package so we’ll be monitoring every game:

Ohio vs Georgetown East Tennessee State vs Kentucky Northern Iowa vs UNLV Washington vs Marquette San Diego State vs Tennessee Wake Forest vs Texas Lehigh vs Kansas Montana vs New Mexico

After what we saw this afternoon, we suggest you join us for our live-blogging feature this evening. Get that refresh-button finger warmed up, and by all means [...]

San Jose Pod Daily Diary: 03.18.10 Edition

rtmsf — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:54:42 +0000

Greetings, everyone, from beautiful San Jose, California. It’s a 75-degree outside the building, but nobody cares about that because it’s time for March Madness, and already across the country today, the games have been insane. Is there any other sporting event in the world that is so consistently awesome on a year-to-year basis? I’m going to be updating this diary by the half so as to accord with NCAA policies. Let me know if you have anything you’d like to know in the comments.

Game 1: #4 Vanderbilt vs. #13 Murray State

1st Half

What a [...]

RTC Region by Region Tidbits: 03.16.10

rtmsf — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:08:32 +0000

Each day this week during the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament we’re asking some of our top correspondents to put together a collection of notes and interesting tidbits about each region. If you know of something that we should include in tomorrow’s submission, hit us up at rushthecourt@yahoo.com.

South Region Notes (Patrick Sellars)

The first “upset” of the tournament occurred in the South Region when SWAC champion Arkansas Pine-Bluff took down the Big South tournament champion Winthrop, 61-44. The Golden Lions earned the right to play top seeded Duke on Friday night. When #9 Louisville [...]

Big East Tourney Daily Diary: Semifinals

rtmsf — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:19:46 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit is spending the week as the RTC correspondent at the Big East 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 semifinal games.

Georgetown 80, Marquette 57

Georgetown whooped Duke. They smacked Villanova. Just yesterday they knocked off Syracuse. That said, would you believe me if I told you that this may be the Hoyas’ most impressive win of the season? Marquette doesn’t get blown out. Prior to this, their ten losses were by [...]

Big East Tournament Preview

rtmsf — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:33:00 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.

Season in Review

The Big East regular season ended on Saturday, and I think it is safe to say that the league had a bit of an unpredictable season. Don’t believe me? Show me a season preview that had Syracuse winning the league, Pitt getting a double-bye, UConn playing on Tuesday, and with South Florida and Notre Dame finishing above UConn and Cincinnati. See? Unpredictable.

But what does that mean? Was the Big East better from top to bottom [...]

Set Your Tivo: 03.06.10

THager — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:01:07 +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 2012 * – don’t waste bandwidth (yours or the tivo’s) of any kind on this game

#8 West Virginia @ #9 Villanova – 12:00 pm on CBS (****)

Both of these teams had [...]

Boom Goes the Dynamite: 01.30.10 Edition

rtmsf — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:38:10 +0000

Welcome back, everyone! Boom Goes the Dynamite returns for the fourth weekend of the year with a blockbuster Saturday of games that are so good that we’re getting them up today as a reminder to join us tomorrow afternoon. With noon-to-night coverage and the fact that most of the country is completely frozen over again, we expect that you’ll be right there with us on the couch, eating a bunch of bad food and breaking down zone offenses. We hope to see you then!

Here are the games we plan on keeping an eye on…

12 [...]

RTC Live: Georgetown @ Marquette

zhayes9 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:54:22 +0000

The Marquette Golden Eagles will enjoy the honor of facing their third consecutive top-15 team when they invite the Georgetown Hoyas into the Bradley Center Wednesday night. A young Marquette squad and their energetic coach Buzz Williams have certainly experienced their fair share of heartbreak in the early going, falling to 0-2 in the Big East in two losses to West Virginia and Villanova by a combined three points. Despite losing four senior starters, the Golden Eagles are as dangerous as they come behind the inside-outside game of Lazar Hayward and the emergence of guard Dwight Buycks and [...]

Checking in on… the Big East

rtmsf — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:57:09 +0000

Rob Dauster of Ballin is a Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.

Here we are on the brink of Big East play. What does that mean? MID-SEASON AWARD TIME!!!

Co-Players of the Year: Da’Sean Butler, West Virginia and Wes Johnson, Syracuse

Depending on who you ask, these two are in the mix for the national player of the year. Butler (16.5 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 3.8 apg) has been the best player for West Virginia, even sliding over and playing some point guard in the past few games as Joe Mazzulla works [...]

Brackets, Braces & Parentheses – Part 1

rtmsf — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:09:43 +0000

Because sometimes, playing with the numbers is more fun than watching the actual games. This is the first of a three-part series on height and college basketball.

“You can’t teach height.” – Frank Layden, Utah Jazz Basketball Coach

More so than in any other sport, height plays a huge role in determining a player’s fate on the court. My wife’s jaw drops when I tell her I’m the same height as Steve Nash. However, as a friend once told me, “being tall does not necessarily correlate with ability to play basketball.” For example, growing up in [...]