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Sports Central
March 13, 2013
Jean Neuberger |
The Rise of the New Big East While realignment killed some rivalries and made dramatic changes to the geographic map, seven Catholic schools got it right. Instead of creating new leagues and identities, they went back to their roots. They'll be better off for it, as will college basketball.   |
Sports Central
December 24, 2012
Corrie Trouw |
A League of Their Own These are the end days of the current college sports conference structure. Recent developments have all-but-assured the destruction of the Big East, and even best of breeds like the SEC and Big Ten will look much different than their obsessively regional previous incarnations. |
Sports Central
January 18, 2006
Alfons Prince |
One Conference Standing Alone The Big East has shown through the first couple of weeks of 2006, that it is the best conference in college basketball. |
Sports Central
March 18, 2005
Kevin Ferra |
The Big East: The Bigger Domination Big East basketball doesn't get nearly the credit, prestige, or overall recognition for being a dominant basketball, if not the most dominant college basketball conference the league has seen recently. |
Sports Central
April 9, 2014
Jonathan Lowe |
Tourney Learning For the second time in four years, and the fourth time in 16 seasons, the Huskies became the rulers of men's college basketball (only to be joined by the women's team Tuesday night). |
Sports Central
September 30, 2011
Andrew Jones |
2011-12 College Basketball Preview As the NBA lockout makes little progress and rumors about players heading overseas abound, college basketball awaits, ready to play because you can't get locked out when you don't make any money. |
Sports Illustrated
May 21, 2003
Kelley King |
Hurricane Watch Two conferences are wooing Miami Athletic Director Paul Dee, whose decision -- to keep Miami in the Big East or bolt for the Atlantic Coast Conference -- could shake up the college sports landscape. |
Sports Central
January 16, 2006
William Geoghegan |
Memphis Finds the Best of Both Worlds The Memphis Tigers might be wondering why they ever wanted to be in the Big East. |
Sports Central
October 11, 2003
Eric Williams |
The More Things Change The impending defections of Miami, Virginia Tech, and B.C. aside, don't cry for Big East basketball. |
Sports Central
January 9, 2006
Jonathan Lowe |
The Inauguration of a Superconference? The Big East conference is large enough to always see success in the NCAA tournament. |
Sports Central
April 12, 2006
Michael Beshara |
In Defense of the BCS As enjoyable as college basketball's March Madness may be, college football's BCS provides the opportunity for both a more exciting and more just crowning of a national champion. |
Sports Central
January 30, 2006
Andre Watson |
Random College Basketball Thoughts Surprises in the ACC... Blunders in the Big East... Knockout in Knoxville?... NCAA should do something about scheduling... |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Top 10: Highest Paid College Basketball Coaches Take a look at what the top ten highest paid college basketball coaches, out of those programs that made the 2006 NCAA tournament, were getting in salary and perks, and what they've done to merit that level of compensation. |
Sports Central
June 8, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
Expansion Talk Sweeping the Nation What happens over the next few months could definitely change the landscape of college football. |
Sports Central
September 9, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
The Cardinals' Dilemma In college football, more than any other sport, the early games matter due to a system that is reliant on human subjectivity. It's why millions love the sport and are frustrated with it at the same time. |
Sports Central
May 19, 2011
Kevin Beane |
Early-Season College Hoops Matchups It takes until pretty close to the season for all the Division 1 schools to say, "okay, here is our schedule" to where it can be reliably released to the media. |
Sports Central
May 23, 2012
Jean Neuberger |
The Newest Game Changer It was just an announcement of a bowl game. Yet, in this never-ending maze of realignment in college athletics, it was a day that could possibly live in football infamy. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2007
Wailele Sallas |
What About the Little Guy? Our college football society has taken away the little guy and replaced it with overpowering BCS schools that have a golden ticket to the big game. |
Sports Central
December 24, 2005
Andre Watson |
ACC Season Beginning to Heat Up The Atlantic Coast Conference has long been one of the best conferences in college basketball. And this year is no exception. |
Sports Central
December 22, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
Atlantic Coast Calamity As of last week, the ACC had just one ranked team, normally an unthinkable phenomenon in most seasons approaching the holidays and conference play for everybody. |
Sports Central
January 28, 2014
Adam Russell |
Now is Time to Radically Change College Football The NCAA needs to completely revamp what its football conferences look like, how games are scheduled and how the post-season selections are made. |
Sports Central
February 23, 2009
Andrew Jones |
March Madness Conference Predictions Here's a look at who will potentially represent each conference, focusing especially on the mid-majors and who actually has some potential to make it past the first weekend. |
Sports Central
January 6, 2010
Andrew Jones |
Realigning College Football's Conferences The Big Ten announced last month that it would be seeking an expansion from 11 to 12. |
Sports Central
December 14, 2005
Alfons Prince |
Huskies Gearing Up For a Title Run? Early in the 2005 college basketball season, the Connecticut Huskies have shown the nation that they have re-tooled and are ready for a return trip to the Final Four. |
Sports Central
April 6, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
The Tournament Team The NCAA tournament has proven not only that a variety of players with differing talent levels can win a title, but that there are an infinite number of ways to win the necessary games. |
Sports Central
October 27, 2004
Adam Russell |
Facelift in Order For College Football What college football needs is a complete overhaul of how it's structured, from the conference alignments to how the schedules are made up to determining a playoff system. |
Sports Central
January 16, 2013
Greg Suttich |
March Madness Starts in January As we near the end of another NFL football season, we start to feel the blues. But then March comes and the event called March Madness gets us back on our couches cheering and fist-bumping over our favorite team while keeping our brackets and a pen within arms reach. |
Sports Central
January 1, 2013
Jonathan Lowe |
The Immaculate Collection It's been poked and prodded over for the couple of weeks. The pre-Christmas announcement for the seven Catholic (and non-football) universities to leave the Big East conference is still in its formative stages. But the decision's real, and the move's coming. |
Sports Central
August 14, 2013
Andrew Jones |
An Anti-Conference Approach The past few years have seen a plague of movement in college football conferences to the point where the names don't even make any sense anymore. |
Sports Central
May 7, 2014
Corrie Trouw |
The New ACC/Big Ten Challenge This week, the ACC and Big Ten announced the slate for this fall's 16th (!) ACC/Big Ten Challenge to something aspiring to lukewarm excitement. |
Sports Central
April 23, 2012
Jean Neuberger |
SMU's Gamble on Larry Brown The Mustang program has been a financially loaded mid-major for years, still struggling to reach the BCS level following the aftermath of the death penalty that hit their football program. |
Sports Central
November 13, 2003
Jonathan Lowe |
Stories in the Spotlight With March Madness and the Final Four ready to spark imaginations for the next four months, here are the top four thoughts that are waiting to be experienced in full by the final buzzer of the college basketball season (or beyond). |
Sports Central
January 19, 2006
Sara Normand |
Bearcat Basketball Taking Hit After Hit The University of Cincinnati men's basketball program has had a run of bad luck, including the firing of a successful head coach and an injury to a star player. |
BusinessWeek
March 25, 2010
Jason Zengerle |
March Payday Madness No one makes more money from the annual NCAA tournament than big-time college basketball coaches. Are they worth their astronomical paychecks? |
Sports Central
October 1, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Ranking College Football Conferences There are too few games in the college football season for a subjective ranking system to matter all too much. |
Sports Central
March 12, 2012
Andrew Jones |
NCAA Tournament Thoughts and Provocations I love the NCAA tournament. This week is my favorite week in the entire year. From Selection Sunday until the final game the following Sunday, I am addicted to basketball. |
Sports Central
October 9, 2004
Jonathan Lowe |
A New Tactic It's only been a few weeks, but the refurbished ACC looks to be a success on the football field. The new-blood Hurricanes and Hokies are standing on their own, with a 3-1 conference record to boot (all right, one of those victories was against Duke). |
AskMen.com
December 10, 2003
Steve Seepersaud |
Why Is The NCAA Downsizing? While money is a major reason colleges cut sports teams, it certainly isn't the only reason. |
Sports Central
July 31, 2008
Brian Cox |
ACC Has a Lot to Prove in 2008 Why does the ACC have so much to prove? In the grand scheme of the picture in college football, they haven't mattered in the last eight years. Here's a look why. |
Sports Central
March 1, 2006
Andre Watson |
College Basketball Thoughts Revisited As we head into March Madness, the Big East is the strongest conference in the country. |
Sports Central
March 17, 2011
Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: NCAA Tourney Bric-A-Bracketology What happens in the dark room once the NCAA Selection Committee convenes? |
Sports Illustrated
March 21, 2002
Frank Deford |
Ladies first Look to the women of UConn to see basketball's best... |
Sports Central
March 8, 2012
Adam Russell |
Confusing Geographical Lines When I was a kid, I excelled at U.S. geography, partially because I knew my college football conferences like the back of my hand. And they all made sense. |
Sports Central
March 20, 2010
Vito Curcuru |
Who's Hot and Cold in Big Ten Expansion Talk Hot: William Blair Company -- Why is an investment firm hot? The Chicago Tribune recently reported that this investment firm evaluated five schools: Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Missouri, Syracuse, and Rutgers for the purpose of Big Ten expansion. |
AskMen.com
Brandon Lang |
2007 March Madness Predictions What's the key to winning during March Madness? Play the underdogs |
Sports Central
November 29, 2004
Eric Williams |
First Impressions of the New Season The college basketball season has started anew and the first impressions of the new season have been made. |
Sports Central
January 19, 2009
Ross Lancaster |
The Year of the Major Conference In college basketball, this year may go down as the Year of the Major Conference. |
Sports Central
May 29, 2014
Jean Neuberger |
Time For NCAA Mid-Majors to Act In a world where the premier conferences are seeking autonomy and building more power through the new college football playoff, the mid-major conferences appear ... stuck. |
Sports Central
March 25, 2009
Ross Lancaster |
Missed Opportunities and No Cinderella The media-driven creation of parity in college basketball is dead. |
Sports Central
October 15, 2005
Seth Berkman |
Preseason Sweet 16 Power Rankings Everybody was raving about Duke this summer and it's hard to argue with the talent they have coming back. |
