Not that I recommend this particular philosophy in sports, but if you are the type of fan who is inclined to overconfidence and cockiness, you will find this tidbit from Donna Ditota’s initial article about Indiana State useful:
[INST Coach] Lansing characterized the MVC as a man-to-man basketball league. His team, he said, rarely sees [...]
February 9, 2011 – 1:46 am
Due to the vagaries of the Chinese higher education semester schedules, I’ve been on holiday for the last three weeks, mostly backpacking around Vietnam. This left Josh to fly solo on CuseCountry — not a daunting task for him considering what a bunch of slackers us other contributors have become — but it also blessed [...]
January 17, 2011 – 2:57 pm
One coach and eight journalists have just displayed what I like to call wisdom.
Side note: nine Big East teams in the full new AP poll, but oddly “only” seven in the coaches poll. Typically staggering numbers either way.
January 10, 2011 – 1:43 pm
As of right now, 19 of the top 25 teams in the country are from the Big East. In the RPI, 12 out of the top 10 teams are from the Big East. The Big East’s record against other BCS schools so far this season is 822-9. Congress has mandated that league-based power-rankings produced by [...]
December 28, 2010 – 3:29 am
As promised, here’s the second half of my survey of the Big East “preseason” results. For the first seven teams, see my previous post. This post will cover the exploits of the nine teams predicted by the coaches to finish in the top…uh, eight. I’ll quote myself from the last post to explain [...]
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December 26, 2010 – 9:11 am
I did this a couple times in the past and people found it useful, so I’m going to get back on the horse and do it again. Here’s the concept:
Once it’s go time for conference play around the nation, I like to take a quick look at how the 16 teams in the Big East [...]
December 5, 2010 – 2:11 am
But I’d be a heck of a lot more impressed if NC State hadn’t just lost by 40 to an unranked team right before playing us. Life as a Syracuse fan has turned into one giant breath-holding exercise, as we all wait, cringing, for the other shoe to drop. Because drop it will, and it [...]
November 28, 2010 – 3:55 am
For the first time this season, I’m legitimately frustrated to be 10,000 miles away from any television showing an SU game. I hate to miss these rare opportunities to watch SU speak the basketball gospel to a godless ACC squad. Granted Georgia Tech rarely emerges as a high profile ACC representative, but any member of [...]
November 25, 2010 – 12:45 pm
Why won’t they just die?
Despite all of my optimism about the impending doom of the Connecticut men’s basketball program last month — optimism shared by most of the media I might add — it appears all our hopes were in vain. The Huskies just knocked off the #2 and the #9 teams in the county [...]
November 14, 2010 – 9:58 am
A couple days ago ESPN.com’s menagerie of college basketball “experts” collectively made their picks for the upcoming season. Ten luminaries of the sport made predictions on everything from which team would win each conference, to who would be the national Player of the Year, to which teams would make the Final Four. To my pleasant [...]
