define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); malcolm drumright – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Mon, 06 Mar 2017 20:42:50 +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 Jacksonville State Follows Ray Harper’s Lead to Surprising NCAA Bid http://rushthecourt.net/2017/03/06/jacksonville-state-follows-ray-harpers-lead-to-surprising-ncaa-bid/ http://rushthecourt.net/2017/03/06/jacksonville-state-follows-ray-harpers-lead-to-surprising-ncaa-bid/#respond Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:01:37 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=127031

When Ray Harper abruptly resigned as Western Kentucky’s head coach after finishing his fifth season at the school last March, the odds that he would be coaching a team in the 2017 NCAA Tournament were so low as to be laughable. When he subsequently landed at Jacksonville State eight days later — a program that went 8-23 last season and had not finished in the top half of the Ohio Valley Conference in over a decade — his chances did not seem to improve. Never mind that the Gamecocks’ program in its two-decade history in Division I had also never [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2017/03/06/jacksonville-state-follows-ray-harpers-lead-to-surprising-ncaa-bid/feed/ 0