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As we move through Championship Week (the second half of Championship Fortnight, of course), we’ll continue to bring you these short reviews of each of the automatic qualifiers to help you fill out your bracket next week. In this post, we’ve got the WCC, Summit, Horizon, and Sun Belt winners from the past two nights…

St. Mary’s

Matthew Dellavedova (And His Mouth Guard) Are Dangerous (AP/ Tony Avelar)

WCC Champion (27-5, 16-2) RPI/Pomeroy/Sagarin = #25/#43/#35 Adjusted Scoring Margin = +11.3 Likely NCAA Seed: #6-#8

Three Bruce Pearls of Wisdom.

St. Mary’s has been a nationally-recognized mid-major for a number of years now, but the Gaels program did something this [...]]]>
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Night Line: A Reminder That Dickie V Represents the Good of the Game http://rushthecourt.net/2011/12/06/night-line-a-reminder-that-dickie-v-represents-the-good-of-the-game/ http://rushthecourt.net/2011/12/06/night-line-a-reminder-that-dickie-v-represents-the-good-of-the-game/#respond Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:02:26 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=50175

Evan Jacoby is an RTC columnist. You can find him @evanJacoby on Twitter. Night Line will run on weeknights during the season, highlighting a major storyline development from that day’s slate of games.

Few people in the history of college basketball will ever be as memorable and beloved as the man that was honored on Monday night in Detroit. Detroit Mercy honored its former coach, one Richard Vitale, by naming its basketball floor in his honor. Before he became the color broadcasting legend we all know today as Dickie V, the honored Vitale coached for four seasons at the school in the mid-1970s. [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2011/12/06/night-line-a-reminder-that-dickie-v-represents-the-good-of-the-game/feed/ 0