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Who’s Got Next? Recruiting Model Changes, Coleman Commits…

Josh Paunil — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:30:45 +0000

Who’s Got Next? is a weekly column by Josh Paunil, the RTC recruiting guru. We encourage you to check out his website dedicated solely to college basketball recruiting, National Recruiting Spotlight, for more detailed recruiting information. Once a week he will bring you an overview of what’s going on in the complex world of recruiting, from who is signing where among the seniors to who the hot prospects are at the lower levels of the sport. If you have any suggestions as to areas we’re missing or different things you’d like to see, please let us know at rushthecourt@yahoo.com.

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Morning Five: 10.07.11 Edition

jstevrtc — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:20:30 +0000

One week, people. One week.

So many people are assuming threat postures over this so-called battle of words between John Calipari and Rick Pitino, but to us this is just a symptom that fans of college basketball just want something to talk about. We’ll never fault anyone for that, but it just doesn’t seem like there’s a lot in this. Here’s the deal: speaking in front of the tent village that pops up around Lexngton’s Memorial Coliseum annually as people camp out for Midnight Madness tickets, Calipari told an interviewer that Kentucky basketball was the biggest deal “throughout this whole state,” raising the [...]

Are the Johnnies For Real? We’ll Find Out Soon Enough…

rtmsf — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:19:06 +0000

Last night’s St. John’s win over Georgetown in Madison Square Garden represents the high-water mark of the proud Red Storm program in the last ten years. It had been fifteen tries since the Johnnies last defeated a ranked team, and it might as well have been a hundred. It certainly seemed that long. The last time the Queens school was relevant in the national landscape, a herky-jerky forward named Ron Artest was better known for his stylin’ haircut than for thanking his psychiatrist after winning an NBA title and throwing haymakers into a Detroit crowd. Before that? A [...]

It’s a Love/Hate Relationship: Volume IV

jbaumgartner — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:39:20 +0000

Jesse Baumgartner is an RTC contributor. In this piece he’ll spend each week reviewing the five things he loved and hated about the previous week of college basketball.

The Five Things I Loved This Week

I LOVED…..a monster throwdown over a brave defender. Too often these days the defensive player gets out of the way, fearful of ending up on the wrong end of an ESPN Top Ten nominee. But not Georgetown sophomore Hollis Thompson. He stood tall in the paint and boldly said “Posterize me,” to Memphis’ D.J. Stephens, who replied, “As you wish” [...]