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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 15, 2014
Jonathan Lowe |
American Bad Rap-sody UConn basketball is left on an snowy island. They are trying to forage a new identity as the perceived bell ringer for the newly-formed American Athletic Conference. In doing so, it appears that they've taken a major hit in terms of marketability through no fault of their own. |
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
May 7, 2009
Kevin Beane |
Big Ten Expansion Musings Here's a look at who the most viable candidates for Big Ten expansion would be. |
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
May 17, 2012
Kevin Beane |
The Rise and Fall of the WAC The WAC has gone, in the last 30 years, from second tier to third to fourth to conference non grata and, in all likelihood, is not going to be a conference beyond 2013, or at very least not one that plays football at the Division 1-A level. |
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
November 5, 2007
Corrie Trouw |
NCAA Basketball Program Power Rankings This NCAA hoops program power ranking forms a ladder for coaching ascension. |
Sports Illustrated
September 25, 2002
Frank Deford |
Father Football Notre Dame feels the pull between pigskin and academics. |
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... |
Sports Central
February 19, 2014
Corrie Trouw |
The Death of the Middle Class Rivalry What happened to college basketball's middle class rivalry? |
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. |
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
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 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 Illustrated
February 20, 2001
Seth Davis |
Bubble Trouble With so many bids to the NCAAs locked up, the fight for the remaining few will be frenzied... |
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
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
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 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
November 22, 2010
Andrew Jones |
The Bane of Auto-Bids This year has been quite an anomaly in college football. TCU and Boise State have been making noise for a few years and everybody seems to keep hoping that they'll finally make the coveted step into the National Championship Game. |
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
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
August 5, 2013
Jean Neuberger |
Beefing Up Schedules It was a packed house at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham, listening to SEC Commissioner Mike Slive talk about basketball. |
Sports Central
July 7, 2009
Seth Doria |
Cincinnati Back in the Big East Game Unless you're a complete college basketball junkie, the sport wasn't exactly a hot topic around your Fourth of July barbecues this weekend. |
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
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
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
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). |
Sports Central
October 25, 2013
Corrie Trouw |
Ranking the Preseason Hoops Tournaments With so many classics and tip-offs on the calendar for college basketball, here is a quick guide to the ones we should most look forward to this year. |
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
August 30, 2012
Kevin Beane |
Haves and Have-Nots of High School Football I was happy when high school football rolled around last week with lots on national television, while college football is still a week away. |
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
November 12, 2008
Ross Lancaster |
A Quiet, Exciting Beginning You don't have to be one of these huge college hoops fans to know that North Carolina is the prohibitive favorite to take home the title. |
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
February 23, 2006
Kevin Beane |
The New Trends of College Basketball In the Big East, bet on Marquette at home... In SEC country, I like how LSU, like Virginia Tech, seems to have something to prove... In the Pac-10, go with the underdog in rivalry games... etc. |
Sports Central
March 15, 2010
Corrie Trouw |
Your Date For the Big Dance When you fill out your brackets, pick upsets with confidence. And, of course, pay attention to this analysis. |
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
December 3, 2008
Wailele Sallas |
65 Reasons and the BCS Ain't One Here are 65 reasons why college basketball is better than college football. |
Sports Central
December 17, 2012
Andrew Jones |
Enough Already It is time to put an end to all of the distractions that college sports provide. And that needs to happen by telling teams what conference they are in. |
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
August 25, 2005
Adam Russell |
Top 10 Non-Conference Games in '05 Some of the most interesting matchups and exciting games to watch are non-conference games. Of the top 10 non-conference matchups, 9 take place in September. |
Sports Illustrated
November 21, 2000
Kelley King |
Darkened Knights There are many reasons why Rutgers should win in football, but the Scarlet Knights continue to lose |
