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WCC Tournament Thoughts on St. Mary’s

The Gaels are dancing! Randy Bennett and his squad played good basketball and thoroughly dismantled their two biggest threats in the WCC, Portland and Gonzaga, to earn the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. Bennett and his staff have done a nice job with this group after losing Patty Mills (Portland Trail Blazers - NBA) and Diamon Simpson (LA D-Fenders - NBADL) last year.  He also lost starter Wayne Hunter to a… Continue reading

The Latest NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracketology

We are coming down to the wire as all the top conference tournaments are starting and the smaller conferences are completing their tournaments. Luckily for the bubble teams, most of the #1 seeds in the smaller conferences have been winning their tournaments which frees up spots for at-large teams. Which bubble teams are in, and which are out? Many of these teams still have a chance if they win a few… Continue reading

College Basketball All-International Team

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER: Greivis Vasquez, 6'6 195 PG, Maryland (Caracas, Venezuela): Arguably the MVP of the ACC and without a doubt a first-team All-American.  Do-it-all PG has had a great career for Terrapins in the ACC.  19.6 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 6.3 apg including a season high 41 points at Virginia Tech. Adnan Hodzic, 6'9 255 Jr. PF/C, Lipscomb (Sarajevo, Bosnia): Big guy scored at 22.1 clip and led in boards with 9.1… Continue reading

NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracketology Revisited

We were thinking about publishing our own NCAA tournament bracket prediction. Then we decided that there were so many bracketologists out there we wouldn't add much to the table. We did come across one site that is very interesting. That site takes all NCAA bracket predictions and averages them out and displays the results in a matrix. The only downside is that some polls do not update daily so there… Continue reading

WCC Basketball Recap: Gaels Samhan is Player of the Week

WEST COAST CONFERENCE (WCC) Conference RPI: 13 Rankings: Gonzaga 11, St. Mary's is receiving votes Team of the Week: The Gonzaga Bulldogs (19-4, 7-1) are the NetScouts Basketball WCC Team of the Week thanks to two wins last week, a conference victory over Portland 76-49 and a big non-conference road win against Memphis from Conference USA 66-58 thanks to 19 points from Matt Bouldin. The victory also helped the WCC move up in the conference… Continue reading

WAC Basketball Teams in ESPN Bracket Buster Field

Utah State Will Host Wichita State In ESPNU BracketBuster Game The Aggies will host Missouri Valley Conference member Wichita State in the eighth annual ESPNU BracketBusters on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 9:59 p.m. (MT), in a game that will be televised nationally on ESPN2. USU's contest against the Shockers will be one of 11 games televised on the ESPN family of networks. All nine Western Athletic Conference teams will be involved in this year's event. Other televised games… Continue reading

Pac-10 Weekly Recap: Washington’s Pondexter Player of the Week

[/caption] PAC 10 CONFERENCE (RPI #8) Ranked Teams: NONE Game Recaps: Arizona State swept the Oregon schools to zip to the lead in the conference. The Sun Devils have now won four in a row. After an easy victory over Oregon theSun Devils needed Ty Abbott to catch fore to hold off a tough Oregon State team 66-57. Arizona lost a tough one to the Beaversas Lathan Wallace hit a three with 1.1… Continue reading

NCAA Surprise Teams: Northern Iowa up to #20

The University of Northern Iowa has jumped seven spots to No. 20 in the Associated Press top-25 poll (Jan. 18), and the Panthers are No. 22 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll.  It's the highest-ever ranking for UNI in men's basketball.  Prior to UNI, Drake was the Missouri Valley Conference's last ranked team (season-ending polls of 2007-08).  The Valley has had six different teams ranked in the Top 25 since… Continue reading

WCC Basketball Recap: Zags Matt Bouldin Earns Player of the Week

WEST COAST CONFERENCE (RPI 12 vs. #5 Strength of Schedule) Rankings: Gonzaga #14 Game Recaps: Gonzaga got a big road win over Portland at the Chiles Center, a place not many teams will win this year.  St. Mary's swept their Bay Area rivals USF and Santa Clara thanks to a great week from Omar Samhan, balanced scoring, solid guard play, and a good (albeit thin) bench.  Pepperdine beat Loyola Marymount 79-75 in Malibu. [/caption] Player… Continue reading

Pac-10 Weekly Recap: Stanford’s Green Player of the Week

[/caption] PAC 10 CONFERENCE (RPI #8) Ranked Teams: NONE Game Recaps: Oregon had a chance to take the top spot in the conference but lost at home to Oregon State 64-57. The Beavers recovered from their thrashing from Seattle to beat their arch-rivals. Arizona State got back into the conference race with a sweep of the Washington schools at home. It wasn't surprising that they won, but what was surprising was the ease… Continue reading