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The RTC Interview Series: One on One With Tom Brennan, Part II

rtmsf — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:00:23 +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.

Yesterday we brought you Part I of our One on One interview with the always-entertaining Tom Brennan. In addition to learning that integration helped knock him out of a starting spot at Georgia and that his athletic director at Yale all but pushed him out the door to Vermont, we re-discovered that [...]

The 10 BracketBuster Games You Don’t Want to Miss

KDoyle — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:34:14 +0000

Kevin Doyle is an RTC Contributor. His weekly column, The Other 26, explores the minutiae of the twenty-six Division I conferences outside the BCS sextet.

One of the best weekends of the year prior to Championship Week and, of course, the NCAA Tournament, is when the BracketBusters are played. It provides a nice break from conference play, and some of the top mid-major teams in the country have an opportunity to strut their stuff, build up that all-important resume, and have a last opportunity of picking up a quality non-conference victory. Because many of the [...]

2009-10 Conference Primers: #21 – America East

rtmsf — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:01:26 +0000

Michael Hurley is the RTC correspondent for the Patriot League and America East Conference. Click here for all of our 2009-10 Season Preview materials.

Predicted Order of Finish:

Boston University (13-3) Stony Brook (11-5) Vermont (10-6) Albany (10-6) New Hampshire (8-8) UMBC (7-9) Hartford (6-10) Maine (5-11) Binghamton (2-14)

All-Conference Team:

Corey Lowe (G), Sr., Boston U. Joe Zeglinski (G), Jr., Hartford Marqus Blakely (F), Sr., Vermont John Holland (F), Jr., Boston U. Will Harris (F), Sr., Albany

6th Man. Muhammad El-Amin (G), Sr., Stony Brook

Impact Newcomer. Luke Apfeld (F), Fr., Vermont

What You [...]

Conference Primers: #25 – America East

rtmsf — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:27:42 +0000

Predicted Order of Finish:

Vermont (21-7) (13-3) Boston U. (18-10) (12-4) Albany (16-13) (10-6) Binghamton (14-13) (9-7) Maryland-Baltimore County (13-16) (8-8) Maine (9-19) (6-10) Stony Brook (10-18) (6-10) Hartford (9-21) (5-11) New Hampshire (6-21) (3-13)

WYN2K. The Am East has a tendency toward top-heaviness, with a couple of good teams in a given year that are competitive with mid-major and (sometimes) high-major teams while the rest are relegated to the morass of low-major fiefdom. Over the last several years, the three sentinels of America East basketball have been Vermont , Boston U. and Albany, the three of which have won the [...]