BGTD: Saturday Afternoon Tourney Sessions
Throughout conference tournament weekend, we’re going to pop in with some BGTD-style analysis at least twice a day. Twelve automatic bids will be decided on this day, let’s take a look at some of the...
View ArticleSummer Updates Wrap-Up
Now that we’ve spent the last six weeks reviewing most of the Division I conferences, let’s take a look back at the entire list with the summer #1 power ranking for each as we head into the fall… [ed...
View Article20 Questions: Will Harvard Finally Break Through to the NCAA Tournament?
Matt Patton is the RTC correspondent for the ACC and one of that conference’s microsite writers. Question: Will Harvard Finally Break Through to the NCAA Tournament? One word says it all: yes. Barring...
View ArticleWhere 2011-12 Happens: Reason #6 We Love College Basketball
Another preseason preview gives us reason to roll out the 2011-12 edition of Thirty Reasons We Love College Basketball, our annual compendium of YouTube clips from the previous season 100% guaranteed...
View ArticleNight Line: Harvard’s Ability to Hang Tough With Connecticut Bodes Well For...
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...
View ArticleChecking In On… the Ivy League
Michael James is the RTC correspondent for the Ivy League. You can also find his musings on Twitter at @mrjames2006 and @ivybball. Reader’s Poll Take Our Poll A Look Back Game of the Year (Thus...
View ArticleMarch Madness Comes Early for the Ivy League
Matt Patton is an RTC correspondent. He filed this report from Saturday’s Harvard-Penn game in Cambridge. With just under two minutes and thirty seconds left to play in the biggest Ivy League matchup...
View ArticleATB: Big East Tourney Begins and Four More Teams Punch NCAA Tickets…
[Ed. note: Technical difficulties last night led to late publication of this post. For that, we apologize.] Last Night’s Lede. For some in the Northeast, the Big East Tournament is the most...
View ArticleBracket Prep: Davidson, Harvard, LIU, Lehigh & Montana
As we move through Championship Week, we’ll continue to bring you short reviews of each of the automatic qualifiers to help you fill out your bracket next week. In this post, we have your SoCon, Ivy,...
View ArticleMorning Five: 05.11.12 Edition
One of the last remaining longtime traditions in Division I college basketball will stay intact with the news released Thursday that the venerable Ivy League will keep its automatic NCAA Tournament...
View ArticleMorning Five: 07.18.12 Edition
This offseason has been unique in the sense that a newly promulgated NCAA rule has allowed coaches and their players to have considerably more in-person interaction than in previous years. While...
View ArticleRTC Summer School: Ivy League
Over the next couple of week’s we’ll be checking in with each of the high mid-major leagues as to their mid-summer offseason status. Up next: the Ivy League. Michael James is the RTC correspondent for...
View ArticleMorning Five: 09.12.12 Edition
Another day, another scandal involving the, ahem, good name of college basketball. With all the allegations getting tossed around the sport in recent months, we’re starting to wonder if the best...
View ArticleMorning Five: 10.16.12 Edition
From the we’ll-believe-it-when-we-see-it department, ACC coaches on Monday squarely put NC State’s Mark Gottfried right into the conference crosshairs with their decision to pick his Wolfpack as the...
View ArticleBucknell and Mike Muscala Are Not to Be Overlooked…
Michael James is the RTC correspondent for the Ivy League. He filed this report after Saturday’s game between Bucknell and Columbia. They don’t yet make a stat for a Mike Muscala. Sure, 29 points and...
View ArticleHarvard Must Stay the Course After Winning Great Alaska Shootout
High expectations can sometimes have an adverse effect on a basketball team, magnifying moments of failure and creating unnecessary pressure that otherwise would not exist. After pulling off an...
View ArticleOtskey’s Observations: Episode V
Baylor’s win over Kentucky late Friday night in Arlington was encouraging in many ways. The Bears picked up another quality win against what has been a fairly strong schedule (minus the two...
View ArticleHarvard, Princeton and the Grind of a 14-Game Tournament
On the road and without its best player, Harvard lost a close game to UConn on Wednesday night in what might be the death-knell for its at-large hopes; at best, Tommy Amaker’s team will be sweating it...
View ArticleO26 Game of the Week: MAC on the Line as Toledo Faces Ohio
As conference hierarchies begin taking shape and teams gear up for the stretch run, this week offers a whole host of compelling O26 contests that are sure to impact the picture come March. Let’s take a...
View ArticleO26 Weekly Awards: American, Juvonte Reddic, Chris Mooney & FAU
From half-court shots and buzzer-beaters to reverse alley-oops and posterizing dunks, it was one heck of a week in O26 basketball. And for several players, coaches and teams, it might have been a...
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