pac-10 tournament – Rush The Court

Conference Tournament Daily Diaries: Saturday

Brian Goodman — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:28:43 +0000

RTC is pleased to announce that we’ll be covering all of the major conference tournaments this year — the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, and SEC — in addition to the strongest two high-middies, the Atlantic 10 and the Mountain West. Each day for the rest of this week, we’re asking our correspondents to provide us with a Daily Diary of the sights and sounds from the arena at each site. Equal parts game [...]

RTC Live: Arizona vs. Washington (Pac-10 Championship)

rtmsf — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:30:42 +0000

Game #207. It’s the game we all anticipated, part three. If it’s anything at all like the game in Tucson, it should be fantastic.

6 pm. Arizona vs. Washington. It’s Wildcats-Huskies Round 3, and if this game is half as good as the game in Tucson, Arizona, we’ll be in for a treat. Arizona and Washington both avenged earlier losses with their semifinal wins over USC and Oregon, respectively. Zona put the clamps on the Trojans’ post game and rode some key performances off its bench (Jordin Mayes and Jamelle Horne each [...]

Conference Tournament Daily Diaries: Friday

Brian Goodman — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:06:55 +0000

RTC Live: Pac-10 Semifinals

rtmsf — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:30:48 +0000

Games #197-198. We’re down to four teams in Los Angeles and a couple of teams have designs on rocking the bubble party.

6 pm. Arizona vs. USC. The Trojans and Wildcats split their season series with each team winning on its home floor. USC had the most impressive victory Thursday for my money, recovering from its slow start to trounce Cal by 14. Against top-seeded Arizona, however, the Trojans will have to get more from Nikola Vucevic than they did against the Golden Bears — seven points and five boards ain’t gonna [...]

Set Your Tivo: 03.11.11

Brian Otskey — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:00:18 +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.

One auto bid and a host of major conference [...]

Conference Tournament Daily Diary: Thursday

Brian Goodman — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:00:38 +0000

RTC Live: Pac-10 Quarterfinals

rtmsf — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:30:13 +0000

Games #181-182. It’s Pac-10 fever at the Staples Center as two quarterfinals give several teams a shot to keep hope alive in an otherwise disappointing season.

3 pm. California vs. USC. Southern Cal has emerged this week as everyone’s sexy pick to win the tournament and steal an at-large bid away from a team like VCU or Colorado. Four of ESPN’s 10 experts picked the Trojans to win the whole thing, while UCLA got the second-most votes at three, and No. 1 seed Arizona only got one (nice objectivity, Miles Simon). But before USC can think about [...]

Set Your Tivo: 03.10.11

Brian Otskey — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:55:54 +0000

Brian Otskey is an RTC contributor.

The power conferences take center stage on [...]

Around The Blogosphere: March 10, 2011 Edition

nvr1983 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:30:34 +0000

If you are interested in participating in our ATB2 feature, send in your submissions to rushthecourt@gmail.com. We will add to this post throughout the day as the submissions come in so keep on sending them.

Top 25 Games

#15 St. John’s 65, Rutgers 63: “St. John’s rode a controversial end to move into the next round of the Big East Tournament, defeating Rutgers 65-63 in a game filled with poor shooting. But the game will be marked by its controversial ending.” (Rumble in the Garden) #18 UConn 79, Georgetown 62: “What is left to say? Georgetown fans knew this team [...]

Morning Five: 11.01.10 Edition

rtmsf — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:29:49 +0000

Now that Halloween is over and done with (best costume we saw this weekend? definitely the couple who dressed up as the scene in American Gothic; well, that, or the random yet very sexy squirrel we saw walking around), we can officially say that we’ve moved into the college basketball season. November 1 is a sort-of de facto calendar line where many slightly-more-casual fans around the country wake up and realize, “shoot, we have a game next week.” We’ve been coming strong throughout the month of October with our season preview materials, and we still have a few more up [...]

Pac-10 Tourney Daily Diary: Finals

rtmsf — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:43:47 +0000

In our attempt to bring you the most comprehensive Championship Week coverage anywhere, RTC is covering several of the conference tournaments from the sites. One of our RTC correspondents is at the Pac-10 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 championship game.

Washington 79, California 75

Right before the game started, the Washington band got the fans going with a stirring rendition of the NCAA/CBS lead-in song… was that prescient or just lucky? I heard eight different pep [...]

RTC Live: Pac-10 Championship – California vs. Washington

rtmsf — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:28:45 +0000

Welcome back to the Staples Center for what should be the best matchup of the weekend in the 2010 Pac-10 Tournament this afternoon. Both California and Washington have looked relaxed and confident in their two games leading up to this point, and why wouldn’t they be — they have the two best teams in the league and the two best players as well in Jerome Randle and Quincy Pondexter. The two teams played twice this year, each winning comfortably on their home floor, so it stands to reason that a neutral environment such as this would produce an [...]

Pac-10 Tourney Daily Diary: Semifinals

rtmsf — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:58:52 +0000

Washington 79, Stanford 64

It’s not difficult to see why Washington (along with Cal) was picked at the top of the Pac-10 this season. There’s a lot of bounce in those legs. Basketball [...]

RTC Live: Pac-10 Semis – Cal vs. UCLA; Washington vs. Stanford

rtmsf — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:52:07 +0000

We’re back at the Pac-10 Tournament for semifinal Friday night at the Staples Center. Unlike most of the major conference tourneys that get to the semifinal stage, only one team — the Cal Bears — is safely into the NCAA Tournament. The other three — UCLA, Washington and Stanford — are looking to steal an automatic bid from another team somewhere out there sweating in bubble-land. For UCLA and Stanford in particular, it’s win or go home, as both teams come into tonight with losing records and will end their season with the next loss. In the first [...]

RTC Live: Pac-10 Qtrs – Washington vs. Oregon State

rtmsf — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:38:23 +0000

Welcome back to RTC Live for another quarterfinal game at the Pac-10 Tournament from the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. This city takes a lot of heat for a lot of different things, but they know how to put on a solid event, and the Tournament so far has been buzzworthy. Tonight we’ll see if one of the league’s two bubble teams in Washington can continue to improve its resume for the Selection Committee by getting past an old foe, Oregon State, a team that the Huskies defeated twice this season already. The Huskies are led by [...]