Big East Morning Five: 01.10.12 Edition
Pittsburgh transfer Khem Birch told Alex Kline of TheRecruitScoop.com he will transfer to UNLV. Birch visited UNLV, Florida and New Mexico State last week before making his choice. “I really like...
View ArticleFour Thoughts: Louisville vs. Seton Hall Edition
Game recaps are boring. If you want to read them, search your local newspaper or the Associated Press. With the Big East Tournament upon us, we figured we would try to offer four thoughts about several...
View ArticleBig East Summer Capsules: Louisville Cardinals
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 ArticleAward Tour: The Struggles of Ranking Cody Zeller
David Cassilo is an RTC columnist who also writes about college basketball for SLAM magazine. You can follow him at @dcassilo. What do we do about Cody Zeller? That’s what we’re asking after his...
View ArticleLouisville Has The “Best” Fan Base In The Country: Says Who?
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. College basketball fan bases are a personal and intensely provincial point of debate. Fans of teams around the country take their...
View ArticleNotes and Quotes From the Inaugural AAC Media Day
American Athletic Conference luminaries gathered in Memphis Wednesday as the league held its first men’s basketball media day, offering thoughts on the inaugural season of the still in-flux league....
View ArticleRule Change on Hand-checking Poses Issues for Louisville and Russ Smith
With every new college basketball season comes tweaks to the rules of the game, and this year’s version may cause problems for the defending national champions. A major point of emphasis this year will...
View ArticleESPN Insider Projects AAC Among Nation’s Top Conferences
The American compares favorably to the best conferences in the country in ESPN Insider‘s 351-team projections that were released Friday. Led, unsurprisingly, by Louisville at #2, the American placed...
View ArticleA Quick Examination of the AAC Non-Conference Slate
Highlighted by the annual renewal of college basketball’s best rivalry, the American has plenty of compelling games to offer before its first in-conference games tip off on New Year’s Eve. The...
View ArticleEvaluating AAC Non-Conference Schedules: The Bad and the Ugly…
We looked at the best of the AAC non-conference schedules in Part I, after explaining a bit of what makes for a good non-conference schedule. This season, there’s quite a bit more bad than good, which...
View ArticleLet’s Make Some Room Atop the American for Cincinnati
It seemed like the AAC’s first season of existence would be a banner year with defending champion Louisville joining, a talented UConn team shut out of the tournament in 2012-13, and a Memphis club...
View ArticleWho Won The Week? Louisville, Marcus Smart, Michigan and The Citadel…
Who Won the Week? is a regular column that outlines and discusses three winners and losers from the previous week of hoops. The author of this column is Kenny Ocker (@KennyOcker), a Spokane-based...
View ArticleFour Teams in the Preseason Top 10: Banner Year for the ACC?
The Atlantic Coast Conference looks poised to have a dominant season among basketball’s top conferences, boasting four of the nation’s preseason top 10 teams in Duke, North Carolina, Virginia and...
View ArticleMontrezl Harrell Provides Louisville With Consistency While Guards Fluctuate
An uncontested putback slam off an offensive rebound put Louisville forward Montrezl Harrell on the board. Just 24 seconds later, the Louisville pressure forced a turnover in the backcourt, providing...
View ArticleWhat Happened to the ACC’s Preseason All-Americans?
On Tuesday, Louisville head coach Rick Pitino told the Louisville Courier-Journal that he had stripped junior star Montrezl Harrell of the Cardinals’ team captaincy. While Pitino claims that the...
View ArticleWithout Chris Jones, Louisville’s Fatal Flaw is Tough to Mask
Louisville’s first game of the post-Chris Jones era looked a lot like the the last one in which the senior point guard suited up. The Cardinals struggled to score, fell behind, went on a second-half...
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