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RTC Live: Sam Houston State @ Notre Dame

rtmsf — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:30:33 +0000

After another exhausting but fun Hoops Marathon, RTC Live is back tonight with a couple of Big East teams taking on motivated mid-majors at home. Notre Dame has struggled a bit without its star forward, Tim Abromaitis, in the lineup, but the Irish have managed to sneak by with a 2-0 record thus far. Join the conversation from South Bend, after the jump.

Game 16: Notre Dame will play host to Sam Houston State in the second game of the South Bend Regional in the CBE Classic. The Irish came from behind to defeat Detroit, 59-53, in the regional’s first game. The Irish [...]

Behind the Numbers: The Other Guys of the Year

KCarpenter — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:53:19 +0000

Kellen Carpenter is an RTC contributor.

The Player of the Year race in college basketball is an interesting and bizarre thing. The most talented player is rarely selected, and the winner is seldom a National Champion. I don’t want to go so far as to say the race is a popularity contest, but it’s something akin to one. Instead of picking the best player, the voters like to pick the most emblematic player, or failing that, the most interesting. Oh, and that player has to almost inevitably be a bit of a ball hog. Evan [...]

RTC 2010-11 Impact Players – Plains/Mountains Region

rtmsf — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:55:07 +0000

For the second October in a row, we’re bringing you our RTC Impact Players series. The braintrust has gone back and forth on this and we’ve finally settled on a group of sixty players throughout ten geographic regions of the country (five starters plus a sixth man) to represent the who and where of players you should be watching this season. Seriously, if you haven’t seen every one of these players ball at least once by the end of February, then you need to figure out a way to get a better television package. As always in a subjective [...]

Backdoor Cuts: Vol. XIII

rtmsf — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:19:31 +0000

Backdoor Cuts is a weekly college basketball discussion between RTC correspondents Dave Zeitlin, Steve Moore and Mike Walsh that occasionally touches on relevant subjects. This week the guys debate the teams they will choose to hate during the NCAA Tournament this year.

DAVE ZEITLIN: We’ve written a lot of words throughout this college basketball season, and let’s be honest: most of them haven’t been very good. But there was at least one column I hold a particular affinity for — our mid-December piece where we all picked different teams to support. Our reasoning was simple enough. Knowing [...]

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 [...]

Southland Tournament Preview

rtmsf — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:21:10 +0000

Russell Burnett is the RTC correspondent for the Southland Conference.

FINAL STANDINGS

EAST

Stephen F. Austin 21-8, 11-5 (pre-season pick #1) First-round opponent – UT-Arlington SE Louisiana 18-11, 10-6 (pre-season pick #3) First-round opponent – Texas State Nicholls State 11-18, 7-9 (pre-season pick #2) First-round opponent – Sam Houston State Northwestern State 10-9, 5-11 (pre-season pick #4) Did not qualify for tournament McNeese State 10-20, 5-11 (pre-season pick #5) Did not qualify for tournament Central Arkansas 9-21, 3-13 (pre-season pick #6) Did not qualify for tournament

WEST

Sam Houston State 22-7, 14-2 (pre-season pick #1) First-round opponent – Nicholls State Texas A&M-CC 15-14, 10-6 (pre-seasoan pick #2) First-round opponent – UTSA UT-San [...]

Checking in on… the Southland

rtmsf — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:42:33 +0000

Russell Burnett is the RTC correspondent for the Southland Conference.

Current Standings as of Feb. 26, 2010

EAST

Stephen F. Austin 19-7 (9-4) SE Louisiana 15-11 (7-6) Northwestern State 10-16 (5-8) Nicholls State 9-17 (5-8) McNeese State 9-18 (4-9) Central Arkansas 8-19 (2-11)

WEST

Sam Houston State 20-6 (12-1) Texas-Arlington 16-10 (8-5) Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 14-13 (8-5) UT-San Antonio 17-9 (7-6) Texas State 12-15 (6-7) Lamar 14-15 (5-8)

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

UTSA guard Devin Gibson was named Southland Conference Player of the Week. The junior from Cy-Falls in Houston averaged 20 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals as he hit 64.3 percent from the field.

ALMOST TOURNEY [...]

Checking in on… the Southland

rtmsf — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:51:36 +0000

Russell Burnett is the RTC correspondent for the Southland Conference.

Current Standings as of Feb. 19, 2010

EAST

Stephen F. Austin 18-6 (8-3) SE Louisiana 14-10 (6-5) Northwestern State 9-15 (4-7) McNeese State 8-17 (3-8) Nicholls State 7-17 (3-8) Central Arkansas 8-17 (2-9)

WEST

Sam Houston State 19-5 (11-0) Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 13-12 (7-4) Texas-Arlington 14-10 (6-5) Texas State 12-13 (6-5) UT-San Antonio 15-9 (5-6) Lamar 14-13 (5-6)

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

For the third time this season, Sam Houston State University junior Gilberto Clavell has been named Southland Conference Player of the Week. Clavell averaged 20.5 points per game as the Bearkats moved to 11-0 in conference play. Clavell posted [...]

Checking in on… the Southland

rtmsf — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:37:53 +0000

Russell Burnett is the RTC correspondent for the Southland Conference.

Current Standings as of Feb. 5, 2010

EAST

Stephen F. Austin 16-5 (6-2) SE Louisiana 13-8 (5-3) McNeese State 8-13 (3-4) Nicholls State 7-14 (3-5) Northwestern State 7-13 (2-5) Central Arkansas 7-15 (1-7)

WEST

Sam Houston State 15-5 (7-0) Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 11-10 (5-2) Lamar 12-11 (4-4) Texas State 10-12 (4-4) Texas-Arlington 11-9 (3-4) UT-San Antonio 12-8 (2-5)

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Southeastern Louisiana big man Patrick Sullivan was named the SLC Player of the Week after averaging 18.5 points and 9.5 rebounds in wins over Nicholls State and Central Arkansas. Sullivan is a 6’9 senior from Florida, and scored a career-high 27 points against [...]

Checking in on… the Southland

rtmsf — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:15:33 +0000

Russell Burnett is the RTC correspondent for the Southland Conference.

Current Standings (as of Dec. 30, 2009)

EAST

Stephen F. Austin 9-3 SE Louisiana 7-4 Northwestern St. 5-6 McNeese State 5-7 Central Arkansas 5-7 Nicholls State 4-9

WEST

UTSA 8-3 Sam Houston 8-4 UTA 5-5 Lamar 6-7 A&M Corpus 5-6 Texas State 4-8

PLAYER OF THE WEEK. UT-Arlington guard Marquez Haynes scored 31 points and grabbed seven boards in a 101-85 win over Texas Wesleyan. This is the second POW honor for Haynes this year.

NON-CONFERENCE. With Southland Conference action slated to begin the second week of the New Year, let’s take a [...]

ATB: Snow Problem, Plenty of Hoops…

rtmsf — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:12:59 +0000

The Debacle in Hinkle. #17 Butler 69, Xavier 68. The story over the weekend was the bizarre and (some say) unconscionable ending to the Butler-Xavier game on Saturday afternoon. If you somehow missed it, check out our post on the subject from last night. We pretty much agree that the referee crew followed the rules as they’re written, but that the rules as they’re written pretty much suck in a situation such as this. RTC Live was there, and as our correspondent wrote at the time:

That would be one ballsy crew to take a [...]

2009-10 Conference Primers: #18 – Southland

jstevrtc — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:24:08 +0000

Predicted Order of Finish:

East

Southeastern Louisiana (12-4) Nicholls State (11-5) Stephen F. Austin (10-6) Northwestern State (7-9) McNeese State (5-11) Central Arkansas (4-12)

West

Sam Houston State (13-3) Texas-San Antonio (11-5) Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (10-6) Texas-Arlington (9-7) Lamar (7-9) Texas State (6-10)

All-Conference Team:

Marquez Haynes (G), Sr, Texas-Arlington Ashton Mitchell (G), Sr, Sam Houston State Anatoly Bose (F), Jr, Nicholls State Kevin Palmer (F), Sr, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Corey Allmond (G), Sr, Sam Houston State

6th Man. Devin Gibson (G), Jr, Texas-San Antonio

Impact Newcomer. Rodney Jones (G), Jr, [...]

RTC 2009-10 Impact Players: Deep South

zhayes9 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:44:36 +0000

Ed. Note: the previous posts in this series (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Atlantic South) are located here.

It’s time for the fourth installment of our RTC 2009-10 Impact Players series, the group of states bordering the Gulf of Mexico known as the Deep South region. Each week we’ll pick a geographic area of the country and break down the five players who we feel will have the most impact on their teams (and by the transitive property, college basketball) this season. Our criteria is once again subjective – there are so many good players in every [...]

Weekly Bracketology – 02.09.09

zhayes9 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:53:01 +0000

A few notes:

As you’ll notice, I included a comment about each and every team in the bracket. I’ll be doing this in each of my final four brackets (2/16, 2/23, 3/2 and 3/7) as we head towards Selection Sunday. Expect a Bubble Watch post from me on Thursday updating the current bubble picture, a feature that will run very similar to ESPN’s weekly bubble watch. As always, any questions/comments/complaints about this week’s bracket, feel free to comment.

Automatic Bids: Boston University, Xavier, North Carolina, East Tennessee State, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Weber State, VMI, Michigan State, Long Beach State, Northeastern, Memphis, Butler, [...]

Unbeaten/Winless Watch (12.25.07)

rtmsf — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:16:05 +0000

We really wanted to do this two weeks ago, but as you know, life got in the way. So we’ll make do with what’s left.

As of Xmas Day, out of a total 341 D1 teams, there were a total of nine unbeaten teams and only four winless teams remaining (see table below). Four of the nine unbeatens are unsurprising – #1 UNC, #2 Memphis, #4 Kansas, and #6 Wazzu were all preseason top ten teams. Pittsburgh wasn’t ranked in the preseason, but they’re always pretty good, so we’re not shocked by their inclusion (esp. once Levance Fields [...]