Big East | Inconsistent play early on makes Big East appear like confused conference (Daily Orange)
Five games into the Big East schedule and the conference looks more like a sandwich than anything else. Pittsburgh is on top and undefeated, and Cincinnati is on the bottom and winless. Everybody else is just sandwiched in the middle. In November and December many Big East teams left people wondering how strong the conference actually was....more...WVU looks for first Big East road win (The Charleston Gazette)
CINCINNATI ? West Virginia?s basketball team has proven so far that it can do just about anything, from winning close games to beating highly regarded opponents. WVU can play smothering defense, shoot 3-pointers and take care of the basketball....more... Quick reunion for Purdue, IU (Journal and Courier)
BLOOMINGTON -- The next time the Big Ten Conference women's basketball coaches convene, the regular season schedule will certainly be discussed....more... It'd Be Crazy To Mess With Madness (Washington Post)
The NCAA has a remarkable knack for getting things wrong, but the one thing the organization has managed to get right is the basketball tournament....more... BOYS BASKETBALL: Abington, Silver Lake heading to postseason (The Patriot Ledger)
Local teams are starting to punch their tickets to the high school boys basketball postseason. Both Abington and Silver Lake beat a league opponent on Friday, assuring each squad a spot in its respective sectional tournament....more... Pitt basketball Q&A with Ray Fittipaldo (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Q: It appears that the other schools in the Big East are average to below average compared to the rest of the nation this year. I believe the Big East's RPI is 6 this year....more... BASKETBALL (Akron Beacon Journal)
BOYS Schedule Today's Games (All games 7:30 p.m., unless noted) Western Reserve Academy at Kiski Prep, 5 p.m. Dalton at Northwestern, 7 p.m....more... Panthers drawing national praise (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Pitt already has beaten Connecticut, Syracuse and Georgetown, the Big East triumvirate most associated with the league's image and success. For some perspective, that has happened only six other times in the 25 seasons the Panthers have been playing Big East basketball....more... Insell embraces big dreams at Middle Tennessee State (USA Today)
Rick Insell can do two things as well as anyone in women's college basketball: Coach. And inspire. He did it for 28 years while cementing his legend at nearby Shelbyville Central High School. Now he's doing it at No. 20 Middle Tennessee State (15-3, 7-0 Sun Belt), ranked in the coaches' poll for the first time since 1988, for the first time in the writers' poll and fourth in the nation in scoring....more... |