define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); magic 8 – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:20:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court 01.29.09 Fast Breaks http://rushthecourt.net/2009/01/29/012909-fast-breaks/ http://rushthecourt.net/2009/01/29/012909-fast-breaks/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:51:07 +0000 http://rushthecourt.wordpress.com/?p=4248

Lot of good links today with many of them follow-ups of stories we have reported on in the past.

Apparently the Miami coaches were onto something when they suspended Eddie Rios indefinitely earlier this month because he was arrested yesterday afternoon on charges of burglary and grant theft. I’m sure you remember Aubrey Coleman‘s “curbing” of Chase Budinger‘s face from this weekend and his subsequent 1-game suspension. Well, things have gotten messy as apparently Coleman and Houston’s athletic department have been getting threatening e-mails filled with racial slurs and the FBI has been called in. Side note: I like how Houston coach [...]]]>
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The Magic Eight Deconstructed http://rushthecourt.net/2008/01/16/the-magic-eight-deconstructed/ http://rushthecourt.net/2008/01/16/the-magic-eight-deconstructed/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:39:46 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/2008/01/16/the-magic-eight-deconstructed/

Today SI’s Grant Wahl published his annual January synopsis of the eight teams that he feels have sufficient chops to win the national title in April. He likes to point out that in the eight previous years of doing this article, he’s been correct in seven of them (the one miss: 2003 with Syracuse). FYI, here is a spreadsheet of his Magic Eight picks for each year since its inception. Looking at the document with the caveat that we generally like Wahl’s work, in the last eight years the only true “gotcha!” champion was that Cuse team, which raises [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2008/01/16/the-magic-eight-deconstructed/feed/ 3