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2008-09 Season Primers: #18 – Sun Belt

rtmsf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:06:49 +0000

Rick Henderson of The Owl’s Nest is the RTC correspondent for the Sun Belt conference.

Predicted Order of Finish:

East

Middle Tennessee (19-11, 13-5) Western Kentucky (18-11, 12-6) South Alabama (18-11, 11-7) Florida Atlantic (17-14, 10-8) Florida International (15 -16, 8-10) Troy (12-20, 5-13)

West

Arkansas-Little Rock (17-9, 12-6) North Texas (16-13, 10-8) Louisiana-Lafayette (15-14, 10-8) Arkansas State (14-15, 8-10) Denver (12-17, 7-11) Louisiana-Monroe (15-14, 7-11) New Orleans (11-19, 4-14)

WYN2K. The Belt took a step forward last season with the NCAA Tourney appearance of South Alabama, and the deep run of Western Kentucky into the Sweet 16, jumping from 17 to 14 in the RPI rankings. Accordingly, recruiting is on the way up all around. [...]

6.11.08 Fast Breaks

nvr1983 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:53:39 +0000

O.J. Mayo worked out with the Miami Heat on Saturday and according to Chad Ford looked very good in dominating Tyrone Brazelton. Apparently, Mayo has become good friends with Dwayne Wade and combined with this workout it increases the possibility that Miami may select Mayo #2 overall, which would mean that the prior unaninimous #1 pick Michael Beasley may fall all the way to Minnesota at #3. Even Kevin McHale can’t screw that up, can he? Michael Weinreb of ESPN’s Page 2 with a look at how cheating was different in the 1980s than it was with O.J. Mayo. Maybe UCLA won’t [...]

Elite 8 Preview: UCLA-Xavier & UNC-Louisville

nvr1983 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:54:39 +0000

– #1 UCLA vs. #3 Xavier (6:40 PM): Both teams are coming off hard-fought victories in the Sweet 16. Xavier obviously was challenged by West Virginia, who took them into OT and may very well have won if Joe Alexander had been able to hit a FT at the end of regulation (81% FT) or not foul out early in OT. The Bruins were challenged by Western Kentucky, who came back from 21 down at half as Tyrone Brazelton scored 31 pts abusing Darren Collison (before Collison fouled out with 5:39 to play). The Bruins held strong at the end [...]

Sweet 16 Preview: West Region

nvr1983 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:47:25 +0000

– #1 UCLA vs. #12 Western Kentucky (9:40 PM): Already more than one analyst has declared that WKU is going to pull off the monumental upset in this game. And one UCLA blog is seriously tempting the Weauxfgods with its rather brazen mocking of the Hilltoppers’ chances in tonight’s game. (Retracted strikethrough: rtmsf thinks he is the Dennis Miller of the college basketball blog world). So we ask ourselves – is this possible? Could UCLA lose to a double-digit seed in the Sweet 16?

One thing we know for certain is that the Bruins will not score enough points [...]

Conference Primers: #20 – Sun Belt

rtmsf — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:08:59 +0000

Predicted Order of Finish:

East

Western Kentucky (20-7) (14-4) Florida Atlantic (21-10) (12-6) South Alabama (15-13) (9-9) Middle Tennessee St. (14-15) (9-9) Troy (11-18) (7-11) Florida International (11-18) (6-12)

West

Louisiana-Monroe (19-9) (13-5) New Orleans (18-12) (11-7) Arkansas-Little Rock (16-13) (10-8) North Texas (14-15) (8-10) Arkansas St. (12-17) (7-11) Louisiana-Lafayette (8-18) (6-12) Denver (8-20) (4-14)

WYN2K. The Sun Belt is a league that has seen better days in the eyes of the basketball world. In the 80s and early 90s, the conference was a top ten league that regularly sent multiple teams to the NCAA Tournament (10 times from 1980-95), peaking at four bids in 1986. Since 1995, [...]