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The RTC Interview Series: One on One with Dave Telep

rtmsf — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:03:07 +0000

Rush The Court is back with another edition of One on One: An Interview Series, which we will bring you periodically throughout the year. If you have any specific interview requests or want us to interview you, shoot us an email at rushthecourt@yahoo.com.

Scouting high school basketball players is a task that probably ranks just above weather prediction and winning trifectas at the track in terms of its certainty, but there are several folks out there who are among the best in the profession. Dave Telep, former National Recruiting Director for Scout.com and current Senior Basketball Recruiting Analyst for [...]

Morning Five: 08.25.10 Edition

rtmsf — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:40:22 +0000

Despite a unanimous (16-0) vote by league coaches to dump the double-bye format for the four top seeds, the Big East decided yesterday to not make the change to the Big East Tournament as league officials and ADs felt uncomfortable with the change for a number of reasons including financial and logistical considerations. Last year three of the four double-bye teams (Syracuse, Villanova and Pittsburgh) lost their initial tournament games, so coaches were pushing for a traditional sixteen-team bracket in part so that they can load up on some easy wins prior to playing the tougher teams in the later [...]

05.10.07 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:29:48 +0000

Slow week in college hoops news, so let’s all review recruiting lists for fun! USA Today (2007), Scout (2008) and Rivals (2008) all have new top 100s out this week (login required for Scout and Rivals). As everyone suspected, Greg Oden is actually 33 years old. Jim O’Brien is eligible to destroy your team’s program in 2009 now rather than 2011. We’ve lost patience with this. ESPN’s most overrated and underrated programs of the last decade are now out. It seems that ESPN was actually asking/answering two different questions (overrated isn’t the same as underachieving, and vice versa, but we digress), but if we define the [...]