Quite a drop off from the NIT to the CBI. You have to pay money to play in the CBI. I suppose it gives a team some post-season experience that they can build on.
And it is my understanding that all games will be played at Daytona Beach. They have moved away from the campus sites. Home field...
The A-10 is a better conference than the MVC - there's really no debate. It isn't unreasonable for Loyola to think they could dominate the A-10 over time. However, there is a many a case of an a program jumping into deeper waters and sinking. Tulsa's basketball's program has never reached the...
It gets back to the question "Would you rather ISU end a successful season by winning the Lending Tree Bowl or by making a deep run (or even winning) the FCS national championship?" The Orange Bowl appearance by NIU a decade or so ago was truly an exception that is highly unlikely to be...
if that is true, the future AAC just seems like a bad conference to me. Few winning traditions and no natural rivalries - it is going the way of Conference USA fast.
The travel is something that is easy to forget because it is not just men's basketball, but all the other sports from men's cross country to women's soccer. A geographically spread out conference stinks for the students and for the athletic travel budgets. WSU has to travel to East Carolina for...
Redbird fans don't have a lot to cheer about, so we should take what we can get. I loved seeing Wichita get beat by Drake. My heart is singing for joy. Don't be surprised if, 10 years from now, Wichita has returned to mediocrity. And if Cincinnati and Houston should ever bolt the AAC for the...