Morning Five: 10.23.12 Edition
The SEC media on Monday released its preseason selections for the upcoming season and with the exception of some carpetbagging school called “Missouri” on this year’s list, it looks an awful lot like...
View ArticleThe ACC Argument: SI’s Preseason Conference Rankings
Andy Glockner revealed his preseason conference rankings – quite impressively giving nearly as many words to the SWAC as the Big Ten — with the ACC coming in at fifth behind all of the power...
View ArticleThe RTC Podblast: SEC Preseason Review
Big ups to Superstorm/Hurricane Sandy for knocking our podcasting studio offline for the better part of a week during the busy preseason, but thanks to the miracle of electricity we’re back in action...
View ArticleWelcome Wagon: Four Teams Ready To Shine In Their New Leagues
Christopher Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. The most recent wave of conference realignment was set off by a desperate scrambling of high-major powers to elevate their...
View ArticleAlex Len’s Coming Out Party Nearly Spoils Kentucky’s Title Defense Debut
Evan Jacoby is a correspondent for RTC and a regular contributor. He filed this report from the Kentucky-Maryland game tonight in Brooklyn. You can find him @EJacobyRTC on Twitter. We assumed it was...
View ArticleNight Line: Is Florida a Better Offensive Team This Season?
Evan Jacoby is a regular contributor for RTC. You can find him @EJacobyRTC on Twitter. Night Line runs on weeknights during the season, highlighting a major storyline development from that day’s...
View ArticleBreaking Down Arkansas’ Chances Against the Orange
The SEC/Big East Challenge tipped off last night with the SEC’s supposed two top teams putting in drastically different performances. The #8 Kentucky Wildcats were run off the floor by host Notre Dame,...
View ArticleGeorgia Tech Takes Control of Peach State Rivalry
Bennet Hayes (@hoopstraveler) is an RTC correspondent. He filed this report after Tuesday night’s Georgia-Georgia Tech game in Atlanta. When the college basketball season tipped off a month ago,...
View ArticleNight Line: Unbeaten Season Ends, But Gregg Marshall is Building Something...
Bennet Hayes (@hoopstraveler) is is an RTC correspondent and Night Line columnist. He filed this report after Thursday night’s Wichita State – Tennessee game in Knoxville. The 2011-12 college...
View ArticleThe SEC Freshman Report: A Look at the Newcomers in the West
Christian D’Andrea is a SEC Microsite Contributor and an editor at Nashville Sports Hub and Anchor of Gold. You can reach him on Twitter @TrainIsland. SEC play is underway, and the group of teams once...
View ArticleOle Miss Avoids Destructive Resume Loss With Comeback Win at Vandy
David Changas (@dchangas) is an RTC correspondent. He filed this report after last night’s game between Ole Miss and Vanderbilt in Nashville. Prior to the season, the Ole Miss Rebels were picked to...
View ArticleMeet the New SEC Hoops Rivalry: Missouri vs. Arkansas
Danny Spewak is an RTC contributor. You can follow him on Twitter @dspewak. He filed this report after a weekend trip to Fayetteville for an SEC clash between Arkansas and Missouri. The University of...
View ArticleAs Minority Head Coaches Decline Elsewhere, the SEC Sets the Standard
Brian Joyce is a writer for the SEC microsite and regular contributor for Rush The Court. Follow him on Twitter for more about SEC basketball at bjoyce_hoops. Twenty-five years ago, Tennessee broke the...
View ArticleWith Kentucky Loss, SEC Fan Apathy For Basketball Exposed Again
David Changas is an RTC correspondent. He filed this report while covering the SEC Tournament in Nashville this weekend. You’ve heard the saying, “If you build it, they will come.” When it comes to...
View ArticleMore TV Money for the Nation’s Most Powerful Conference: Surprise, Surprise…
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. Because once-meaningful concepts like academic and cultural similarity, geographical proximity and longstanding tradition no...
View ArticleMorning Five: 07.17.13 Edition
We’re more than officially in the dog days of summer but only the truly committed scribes work all summer covering the sport we love. Seth Davis is one national commentator who came out of his slumber...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.22.13 Edition
When you have the facts, pound the facts. When you have the law, pound the law. When you have neither, pound the table. The NCAA would do well to remember this old legal axiom as it enters a dangerous...
View ArticleMorning Five: 09.05.13 Edition
Wednesday was a day of moves — some planned, others not — as we slowly but assuredly inch our way to the start of season practice at the end of the month. The biggest news, of course, was that former...
View ArticleMorning Five: 10.16.13 Edition
Maybe we should just start calling this post the Wiggins Five, given how often Andrew Wiggins is finding his way into it without having played a single minute of college basketball. But yesterday’s...
View ArticleMorning Five: 10.17.13 Edition
As we mentioned yesterday, Wednesday was the day that four major basketball conferences, all of their own independent accord, decided, “hey, let’s dominate the news cycle for our basketball product by...
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