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All in the Family: Episode 2

rtmsf — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:40:32 +0000

We’re back with the second episode of AITF, a semi-regular piece that will take a closer look at each of the six power conferences to see what interesting tidbits relating to the national picture might be occurring. And yes, for those of you asking, we’re still classifying the SEC as a power conference (even if KenPom has the Mountain West ahead of it).

Power Conference Rankings

1. Big East.

Everyone in the Big East has now played between six to nine conference games, so we have a somewhat decent sense as to how the pecking order in this league looks [...]

ATB: Another Night, Another Bad Loss in the SEC West…

rtmsf — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:28:31 +0000

The Lede. What a ho-hum evening of basketball. There were 19 games on the slate, but only a couple of them were even mildly interesting. Get used to it. There is a smattering of games throughout the week, but things don’t really heat up again until Saturday when most schools are finished with exams and heading into the holiday break.

Your Watercooler Moment. The SEC West should consider seceding from the rest of the conference and joining the Southland. After yet another embarrassing home loss to a low-major team tonight when LSU lost in overtime to Coastal Carolina, [...]

John Pelphrey’s Job Just Got Harder

rtmsf — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:53:05 +0000

Not a full week after John Pelphrey signed a nice one-year extension and received a ‘we have full confidence in you’ raise, he was hit with news that his talented but confounding PG Patrick Beverley has effectively been dismissed from the program. Privacy concerns limit what school and team officials would say on the record, but Friday was the last day of summer classes at Arkansas and it doesn’t seem a major reach to think that Beverley’s dismissal involved academic problems.

The Hawgs Have Some Rebuilding Ahead of Them

Arkansas was already facing a rebuilding year next season, having lost four [...]