In 1-and-Done Era, Experience Wins Championships
(special h/t to Luke Winn for inspiring this analysis with his article here) You may have heard in recent days that Kentucky’s John Calipari has been filling up on the tasty nougat that has risen to...
View ArticleSingler’s Return = Duke #1
The SCOOP doctor, Jeff Goodman, is reporting that Duke all-american forward Kyle Singler is returning to Durham for his senior year. A formal announcement from Singler is expected in the next 24...
View ArticleWelcome, Dr. Emmert: Please Don’t Mess Up…
Yesterday on Seattle radio station KJR, NCAA president-elect Mark Emmert gave an interview with host Mitch Levy where he discussed his thoughts on some of the hot-button topics impacting collegiate...
View ArticleMorning Five: 09.29.10 Edition
And so it begins… Michigan State’s Korie Lucious will miss two to six weeks as a result of knee surgery to repair a small meniscus tear in his left wheel. It’s a relatively minor injury that Lucious...
View ArticleATB: The Day After
The Lede. Hopefully everyone was over their Jimmer hangovers by the time the games started tonight. Judging by Twitter, and…well, pretty much every sports outlet in the nation, the transitive verb “to...
View ArticleFinal Four Daily Diaries: Friday
RTC is at the Final Four in Houston, our sixth as a fan but our first as a member of the working media. What that means, exactly, we’re still trying to figure out, but we think it has something to do...
View ArticleRTC NBA Draft Profiles: Kyle Singler
Over the course of the next month until the NBA Draft on June 23, RTC will be rolling out comprehensive profiles of the 35 collegians we feel have the best chance to hear their names called by David...
View ArticleRTC NBA Draft Profiles: Kyrie Irving
Over the course of the next month until the NBA Draft on June 23, RTC will be rolling out comprehensive profiles of the 35 collegians we feel have the best chance to hear their names called by David...
View ArticleMorning Five: 10.05.11 Edition
Official practices start in a little over a week, but players around the country are already involved in conditioning and individual instruction as the season quickly approaches. As a result, we’ll...
View ArticleIs Ben Howland’s Job in Jeopardy?
The UCLA basketball program is 0-2 for the first time since Steve Lavin’s final disastrous year in Westwood. An 0-2 record isn’t necessarily the end of the world, but the Bruins haven’t exactly come by...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 01.18.12 Edition
Arizona turned the ball over 28 times last weekend in its split with the Oregon schools, and clearly head coach Sean Miller was none too pleased with that effort. During a Tuesday news conference at...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 03.09.12 Edition
Once again this morning, since we have got a couple other correspondents writing about the actual games at the Pac-12 Tournament, we will be focusing just on some off-the-court stuff in the Morning...
View ArticleAnthony Davis Named a Finalist for USA Olympic Team: Should He Make It?
Evan Jacoby is a regular contributor for RTC. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter. As international basketball continues to gain steam, so does widespread intrigue in the Summer Olympic Games. The...
View ArticleUCLA Week: Evaluating the Recent Past
There are no two ways around it, so we might as well get right to the punch: The past three seasons at UCLA, even with an NCAA Tournament appearance and win in 2010-11, is in the conversation for the...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 03.18.13 Edition
Yesterday, of course, was Selection Sunday, and it was revealed that five teams from the Pac-12 will play in the NCAA Tournament. There were a couple of surprises, most notably Oregon receiving a #12...
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