Big East Summer Capsules: Connecticut Huskies
While most relish the onset of Summer, college basketball junkies do not. Most of the news surrounding the sport is recruiting rumors and commitments or injuries and transfer news. In order to help...
View ArticleRTC Summer School: Mountain West Conference
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 Mountain West. Drew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.27.12 Edition
Worrisome news was released on Friday from Saint Louis University when the school announced that its head coach, Rick Majerus, will be taking a medically-related leave of absence next season, leaving...
View ArticleTaking Stock of UConn’s Transfers: Who Ended Up Where?
Christopher Johnson is an RTC columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. Between its poor chemistry, inconsistent performance in conference play and seemingly complacent disposition on the court,...
View ArticleTipping Off The Big East Countdown: #8 Connecticut
Few new coaches in the country will have a more difficult job this season than new Connecticut head honcho Kevin Ollie. Not only does Ollie has the unenviable task of following the most popular and...
View ArticleChecking In On… the Mountain West
Last year about this time, the Mountain West’s record as a collective was 27-3. Sure, there wasn’t a large number of top shelf wins among those 27, but they were wins. This year the teams are a...
View ArticleChecking In On… the Mountain West
We’re a little more than two weeks into the season and the best win among all 11 Mountain West conference teams is: what? New Mexico in a double-overtime miracle over a UAB team that was under .500...
View ArticleChecking In On… the Mountain West
Hooray! The Mountain West has its hero. November is in the books and the conference finally has a victory worth crowing about under its collective belt. In fact, San Diego State scored a couple really...
View ArticleChecking In On… the Mountain West
Last year, the Mountain West Conference earned, and received, five bids to the NCAA Tournament. Once there, things did not go as planned, but regardless, it was a good regular season for the...
View ArticleAAC M5: 12.27.13 Edition
AAC Basketball resumes Saturday after a five-day holiday break with one the last and the biggest non-conference game for one of its teams: Louisville visits Kentucky in the annual renewal of the...
View ArticleDisappointing Loss to Air Force Saturday Brings Surging UNLV Back Down to Earth
Back at Thanksgiving, things weren’t looking especially bright for the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels. Dave Rice’s team was just 2-3 (a record that excludes an embarrassing exhibition loss to Dixie State), and...
View ArticleChecking In On… the Mountain West
It’s the first week in February, and we’re basically halfway through the conference season (believe it or not). So for the most part this week, our Mountain West check-in will be a review of the season...
View ArticleThe Case for UNLV’s Dave Rice
For those interested in bashing Dave Rice this season, it hasn’t been a challenge finding a few friends to join in on the fun. Even our own Andrew Murawa took a rip at UNLV’s walking, breathing,...
View ArticleMorning Five: 03.04.14 Edition
Coming off Saturday night’s loss at Oklahoma State the big concern out of Lawrence was not the Jayhawks’ loss, but instead was the health of Joel Embiid. Yesterday, Kansas announced that Embiid had...
View ArticleFour Questions Previewing the Mountain West Tournament
RTC Mountain West correspondent Andrew Murawa and national columnist Bennet Hayes will both be in Las Vegas this week for coverage of the Mountain West Tournament. San Diego State and New Mexico appear...
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