Morning Five: 07.06.11 Edition
Duke will be undergoing a significant transformation after losing Kyrie Irving, Nolan Smith, and Kyle Singler and to help get the team ready they are heading to China and Duabi in August. Although we...
View ArticleRTC Summer Updates: Horizon League
With the completion of the NBA Draft and the annual coaching and transfer carousels nearing their ends, RTC is rolling out a new series, RTC Summer Updates, to give you a crash course on each Division...
View ArticleMorning Five: 10.12.11 Edition
Indiana self-reported a violation to the NCAA yesterday, specifically the contacting of recruit Gary Harris by head coach Tom Crean on October 6 even though the period for allowable contact ended on...
View ArticleBig 12 Morning Five: 10.12.11 Edition
The news of retired Valparaiso coach Homer Drew’s cancer diagnosis spread across the Internet thanks to a tweet by former Valpo player and current Michigan State guard Brandon Wood yesterday evening....
View ArticleRTC Conference Primers: #22 – Summit League
Charlie Parks is the RTC correspondent for the Summit League. You can find him on Twitter at @CharlieParksRTC. Ed. Note — yesterday’s Summit League primer was actually a re-publish of the summer...
View ArticleRTC Conference Primers: #13 – Horizon League
Jimmy Lemke of PantherU.com is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League. You can find his daily ramblings @PantherU or @JimmyLeMKE on Twitter. Reader’s Take I Last season, the Horizon League put...
View ArticleSet Your TiVo: Opening Night
Brendon Mulvihill is an RTC contributor. You can find him @themulv on Twitter. See bottom of the post for the Official RTC Star System. The 2011-12 college basketball season tips off with the regional...
View ArticleAfter the Buzzer: Coaches vs. Cancer, Indeed…
Tonight’s Lede. Year the Fifth. Welcome back for another year of late-night — or overnight, depending on where you are — coverage of the nightly events in college basketball. When we started this...
View ArticleChecking In On… the Horizon League
Bill Hupp is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League. Follow him on Twitter (@Bill_Hupp) for his thoughts on hoops, food, Russian nesting dolls and life. Reader’s Take Take Our Poll The Week...
View ArticleChecking in on … the Horizon League
Deepak Jayanti is the RTC correspondent for the Horizon League. Follow him on Twitter (@10thYearSeniors) for his thoughts on college basketball. Reader’s Take Take Our Poll Halfway Checkpoint Don’t...
View ArticleMorning Five: 03.29.12 Edition
After speaking with its former coach Bruce Weber, Southern Illinois has decided to go in a different direction and announced Barry Hinson as its new basketball coach. Hinson, who previously coached at...
View Article2012-13 RTC Conference Primers: Horizon League
Ethan Back is the Horizon League correspondent for RTC. Top Storylines The Departure of Butler: It’s pretty crazy to think that the Horizon League has produced two of the last three runners-up in the...
View ArticleBracket Prep: LIU-Brooklyn, South Dakota State, Valparaiso, Bucknell
Over the course of the last two nights, four more teams made their Big Dance dreams a reality. As each of the 31 automatic qualifiers plays their way into the Dance over the next week, we’ll take some...
View ArticleBracket Prep: Midwest Region Analysis
Throughout Monday, we will roll out our region-by-region analysis on the following schedule: East (9 AM), Midwest (11 AM), South (1 PM), West (3 PM). Here, Bennet Hayes (@HoopsTraveler) breaks down...
View ArticleACC M5: 03.22.13 Edition
ACC Sports Journal: ACC Sports Journal‘s Wake Forest Insider wrote the most comprehensive article on Ron Wellman and Jeff Bzdelik‘s tenure at Wake Forest that I’ve ever read. It also might be the best...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.13.13 Edition
Every year ESPN’s 24 Hours of Basketball feature is one of the highlights of the early-season schedule. This year’s version should be no different as ESPN has another loaded slate. Outside of the...
View ArticleBracket Prep: Valparaiso, Robert Morris & North Dakota State
As we move through Championship Week, we’ll continue to bring you short reviews of each of the automatic qualifiers to help you fill out your bracket next week. Here’s what you need to know about the...
View ArticleNCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.21.15 Edition
March Madness is finally upon us, and we here at RTC are here to make everything a little bit easier for you. From the First Four until One Shining Moment, we’ll be dropping daily tidbits of knowledge...
View ArticleO26 Never-Too-Early Top Five (and More)
Don’t look now, but college basketball season is only seven months away! Okay, so that may seem a bit far off, but it’s never too early to gin up a little excitement for the sport we love. Let’s...
View ArticleValparaiso’s Bandwagon Filling Up Fast
You can look in the back if you wish, but the Valparaiso bandwagon is just about standing room only at the moment. In mid-November. Imagine what it might look like by March. There’s good reason, of...
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