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Michael Jordan’s Son Jeff Tweets His Support Of Joe Paterno

nvr1983 — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:05:45 +0000

Yesterday night, Ashton Kutcher made news with his tweet questioning the decision by Penn State to fire Joe Paterno. Kutcher quickly back-tracked when he was met with a deluge of criticism and has essentially surrendered his account to his publicists at this time. Since that time, very few other well-known individuals (or really any people outside of some rioting Penn State students) have come to Paterno’s defense.

Enter Jeffrey Jordan, the oldest son of Michael Jordan, who goes by the Twitter handle @heirjordan13. Jeffrey currently plays alongside his brother Marcus at Central Florida although both were among a group of five players suspended [...]

A Closer Look at the Texas/Kansas Rivalry

dnspewak — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:22:25 +0000

There’s just something about Kansas that spurs all kinds of rivalries. Although it has dominated the Border War with Missouri lately and has traditionally beaten up on Kansas State (until Michael Beasley came along), the Jayhawks have found a new bitter rival to tangle with: the Texas Longhorns. KU’s geographic rivalries will never be replaced, of course. But for now, the most bitter, cold-blooded rivalry in the league is between Bill Self and Rick Barnes‘ programs.

Rick Barnes Always Finds Himself in a Battle With Kansas

And there’s a simple reason for that. It’s all about the competition on the court. Kansas has [...]

NCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.23.11

Brian Goodman — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:24:28 +0000

Throughout the NCAA Tournament, we’ll be providing you with the daily chatter from around the webosphere relating to what’s going on with the teams still playing.

East

Ohio State freshman big man Jared Sullinger was named Sporting News Freshman of the Year. Sullinger averages 17.1 points per game for the nation’s top team, and this is far from the last piece of hardware he’s going to receive from this season’s efforts. Remember John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, and Eric Bledsoe? Well, this year, Kentucky has Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones. John Calipari has mastered the art of turning freshmen into NBA prospects. Darius Johnson-Odom, a [...]

Morning Five: 03.01.11 Edition

rtmsf — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:01:12 +0000

See that number up there… the one that looks like two-thirds of an eight? Yeah, that means it’s the third month of the year, the one we commonly know as March. Starting tonight, the road to the 2011 national championship begins. As slim as that shot might be, roughly 325 teams have a chance to win it all beginning this evening. The Big South and Horizon League Tournaments start with their opening round games tonight, and if the teams playing in those win, and win again, and keep winning, they’ll be standing atop the world of college basketball five weeks [...]

2010 NBA Draft Winners and Losers

zhayes9 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:51:45 +0000

Zach Hayes is an editor, contributor and bracketologist at Rush the Court.

Now that the Draft is complete, time to look back at Thursday night’s winners and losers, from coaches to NBA teams to players to conferences and everything in between:

Paul George saw his stock skyrocket all the way to #10 and the Pacers, Al Bello/Getty Images

Winners:

Big 12 – One of the premier college basketball conferences has gained quite a surge of momentum in the last few weeks. Big 12 commish Dan Beebe convinced Texas it was in their best [...]

A College Basketball Fan’s Guide To Watching The World Cup

jstevrtc — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:36:27 +0000

In less than 48 hours, our televisions will be taken over by the biggest sporting event the world has to offer. Your TweetDeck (or whatever Twitter application you use) will be lousy with friends, celebrities, and sportswriters tweeting about it. Your Facebook friends will be centering their status updates about it. And, for the next five weeks, when you walk into your favorite sports bars, as you peer at the flat-screens you’ll notice an increased presence of a game to which you might not be accustomed.

It’s World Cup time.

Like the Olympics and the Fields [...]

Appreciation For The Departing Seniors

zhayes9 — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:18:09 +0000

Zach Hayes is a regular RTC writer and resident bracketologist. You can follow his sports-related thoughts at Twitter.

Too often during the month-long period between the Final Four and the early entry deadline of the NBA Draft, the media, hoops blogs and talking heads only focus on the underclassmen that have put their name in the hat. Was it the correct decision? Should he come back to school instead? Did that player sign with an agent? These questions should be forwarded and debated, but it seems a distinguished group of players are left out of the national [...]

NCAA Basketball 2010: The BCS Version

nvr1983 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:41:27 +0000

With all the talk about the coming 96-team tournament, many in the sports media have forgotten that there is already another ridiculous major college sport championship in place: the BCS. We took you through this process in a post last year, but it’s worth going over again as the blogosphere is ablaze with opinions on changing our beloved NCAA Tournament.

Here are the basic ground rules:

We are following the BCS Football guidelines as closely as possible. Obviously there are some differences. A college basketball team is expected to win more than 9 games (we kept [...]

Aldrich Leaves Kansas Leaving Us Wanting More

nvr1983 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:35:44 +0000

In one of the least surprising announcements of the past few weeks, Cole Aldrich announced that he would forgo his senior season at Kansas and enter the NBA Draft. While Aldrich had a relatively disappointing season (a 3rd team All-American and a flame out in the 2nd round against Northern Iowa) he will still cash in on NBA millions as he is an almost certain top 10 pick (10th overall pick gets $1.87 M per year). The big question with Aldrich is not his ability (almost nobody questions that he could be a legit NBA center especially with how [...]

Comings & Goings: Landesberg & D. Jones Leaving; Hewitt to St. John’s?

rtmsf — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:16:23 +0000

Sylven Landesberg of Virginia has decided to leave the school and turn pro this year. He was already suspended for academic problems, and there was little expectation that he would be able to come back next year anyway. The problem is that he’s by no means a first round lock, and may not even be a second rounder either. According to this report, though, he may opt to play in Europe or Israel, though.

South Florida’s Dominique Jones is exploring the option of entering the NBA Draft, but he’s leaving open the possibility of a return to [...]

That’s Debatable: Five Questions for Discussion

rtmsf — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:15:25 +0000

This one is for our readers, who are with the exception of a few notable gadflies, the most knowledgeable and erudite group of college hoops fans around. Rather than just giving our opinions on some of the big controversies and issues of the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, we want to throw it at you guys. What do you think? Each of the below polls will allow comments, so let’s build some discussion through there.

Q1: Does Last Weekend’s Performance Show That the Big East Was Overrated?

Take Our Poll

Our answer on this [...]

Northern Iowa Knocks Out Kansas

jstevrtc — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:52:15 +0000

Kansas has been sent packing by Northern Iowa in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

This has to be the biggest second-round upset in the history of the event. The Panthers weren’t afraid to get physical with the Jayhawks, and forced them into 15 turnovers while committing only nine themselves. Kansas was of course the overall #1, and their departure means that Kentucky probably takes over as the favorite to win the title. They play Wake Forest in a second round game in New Orleans later tonight.

Northern Iowa Celebrates! (Ronald Martinez/Getty [...]

Boom Goes The Dynamite: Second Round 03.20.10 Edition

jstevrtc — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:15:17 +0000

Now it’s a party. The first round is done. The next 48 hours of games will define which big-time teams can handle the pressure cooker that is the Big Dance, and it will identify the Cinderellas we’ll be talking about for years. If you’re a double-digit seed, winning one game is nice, but you don’t receive your wicked stepsisters, pumpkin coach, and glass slipper until you at least reach the Sweet 16. Oh, you’re a big-conference bigwig? Then the next round is still probably less than what was expected of you. People don’t remember Second Rounders. [...]

Big 12 Tourney Daily Diary: Quarterfinals

jstevrtc — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:04:55 +0000

After two days of hoops at the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City, what’s all the talk? The rocking of chalk.

I don’t just mean the Jayhawk victory over Texas Tech. The crowds in KC are definitely enjoying themselves and taking in some high-quality hoops, but they’re wondering where the upsets are. So far, the only real upset we’ve had so far was the first round toppling of Missouri by Nebraska. As I was talking to some Kansas State fans about this in a local restaurant after the game, one of them spoke the truth: [...]

RTC 2010 All-America Teams

zhayes9 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:33:09 +0000

Unanimous 1st Teamer Evan Turner

With the regular season winding down to a close, the powers-that-be here at Rush the Court met in rtmsf’s basement bunker and spent 36 hours without food or water sorting out our 1st, 2nd and 3rd All-American teams for the 2009-10 season. Just kidding, we actually did it by e-mail. Regardless, here is the much-anticipated unveiling (with a slight adjustment to the three-guard lineup for the 3rd team based on the voting). Enjoy:

1st Team

G – John Wall, Kentucky (16.8 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 6.2 APG, 1.8 SPG) G – Evan Turner, Ohio [...]