Summer 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 Article$2,000 Stipend: Is the NCAA on the Verge of Allowing Payments to Players?
Perhaps the winds of change are in the air after all. Not a month after Taylor Branch’s opus in The Atlantic excoriated the NCAA for its stubborn adhesion to the twin tenets of amateurism and the...
View ArticleSet Your TiVo: 02.01.12
Evan Jacoby is an RTC correspondent and regular contributor. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter. See bottom of the post for the Official RTC Star System. Two previously Top 10 teams (UConn and...
View ArticleNight Line: Larry Eustachy Has Southern Miss On Track For Its First NCAA Bid...
Evan Jacoby is an RTC correspondent and regular contributor. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter. Night Line will run on weeknights during the season, highlighting a major storyline development...
View ArticleMemphis to Big East a Huge Win for Both Sides
Evan Jacoby is a regular RTC contributor. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter. The college basketball landscape incurred another major shuffle on Tuesday, as Memphis is reportedly headed to the...
View ArticleChecking In On… the Mountain West Conference
Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West and Pac-12 conferences. Reader’s Take Take Our Poll A Look Back For months now we’ve heard talk of a merger, in some form or another,...
View ArticleATB: Bids Earned From Montana to Brooklyn While Power Conferences Do Battle…
Tonight’s Lede. The Big East Tournament continued in the early afternoon, but nothing crazy has happened in New York City, yet, with all favorites moving on to Thursday’s quarterfinals. The Big 12 and...
View ArticleATB: Power Conference Round Up – All Leagues Now in Tournament Action, Big...
Tonight’s Lede. Thursday was a transition night during Championship Week from small-conference finishes to power league beginnings. Most mid-major tournaments are now completed, as the automatic bids...
View ArticleAnalyzing the Illinois and Tulsa Coaching Hires – Exciting New Fits
Evan Jacoby is a regular contributor for RTC. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter. More coaching vacancies continue to get filled across the country, as it became official on Thursday that Ohio...
View ArticleMorning Five: 05.02.12 Edition
The biggest non-Amare Stoudemire basketball news on Tuesday was that the Atlantic 10′s courtship of Butler appears to have finally resulted in a match. ESPN.com reported last night that Butler will...
View ArticleMorning Five: 05.04.12 Edition
In just the last three days, the Atlantic 10 has added Butler, the Mountain West has eviscerated the WAC with its additions of San Jose State and Utah State, and now Conference USA has finished it off...
View ArticleMorning Five: 06.13.12 Edition
Last night the NBA Finals between Miami and OKC began in Oklahoma City, and aside from the fact that Thunder fans have the look and feel of college fans (that tends to happen when you’re the only...
View ArticleCAA Decision Shows Why Conference Realignment is More Complex Than You Think
With a number of schools changing conference affiliation every six months or so, conference realignment remains a dominant factor in the college basketball landscape. Will the Big East soon lose its...
View ArticleDoes the Xavier Loss Reveal the Arc of Memphis’ Season?
Will Tucker is an RTC correspondent. He filed this report after last night’s game between Memphis and Xavier in Cincinnati. Xavier outlasted Memphis, 64-62, in a game that exposed systemic weaknesses...
View ArticleBig East M5: 03.27.13 Edition
If nothing else, fans of the current Big East are going to have plenty of channels to catch their favorite schools on when the schools all go their separate ways. The ACC is taking over Big Monday and...
View ArticleRaheem Appleby’s Injury a Huge Blow for Louisiana Tech
Louisiana Tech’s promising season just came to a screeching halt. The Bulldogs were the Conference USA favorite and held legitimate hopes for an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament prior to...
View ArticleO26 Weekly Awards: New Mexico, Jeremy Ingram, Donnie Tyndall & ECU…
Think about it, folks: this time next week, it will be March. Let that sink in for a minute… Now let’s take a step back and give some recognition to several of last week’s top performers and...
View ArticleO26 Game of the Week: Saint Louis-VCU Pt. II, Iona-Manhattan & More…
Each week the O26 microsite will run down the biggest upcoming game of the week as well as a handful of others to keep an eye on. Saint Louis (25-2) at Virginia Commonwealth (20-7) – 6:00 PM ET, ESPN2,...
View ArticleO26 Superlatives, Part II: CAA, C-USA, MAC, MEAC, MVC, SoCon, Summit & WCC…
In Part II of our three-part series, we pass out 2013-14 superlatives to the best teams, performers and performances from eight different O26 conferences: CAA, Conference USA, MAC, MEAC, Missouri...
View ArticleConference Tournament Primer: Conference USA
Championship Fortnight continues with another conference tourney tipping off today, so what better way to get you through the next week of games than to break down each of the Other 26′s postseason...
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