Pac-12 M5: 10.23.14 Edition
Let the dissection of the Pac-12 media poll begin. The league will have its media day from the San Francisco headquarters today, and the schools will be represented by each head coach and a few select...
View ArticlePac-12 Season Preview: Stanford Cardinal
The Pac-12 microsite will preview each of its league teams over the next few weeks, continuing today with Stanford. Stanford Cardinal Strengths: Losing an all-league player (Dwight Powell) and one of...
View ArticlePac-12 Media Day Roundup: Part Two
Adam Butler (@pachoopsab) of Pachoops.com is back for another go-round on his March to Vegas. He covered the Pac-12 Media Day on Thursday. Part I of this two-part series, which covered USC, Washington...
View ArticleOne on One: A Pac-12 Preview With Jon Wilner
Rush the Court is back with another edition of One on One: An Interview Series, which we will bring you throughout the preseason with previews of each of the major conferences. With the college...
View ArticleACC M5: Early Season Tournaments Part I Edition
Note: To gauge relative team strength, we are using current Kenpom ratings. Charleston Classic: Fresh off Monday’s big upset over Florida, Jim Larrañaga‘s squad is looking to make some more noise in...
View ArticleWrapping Up the Pac-12 and Looking Ahead to 2015-16
The National Championship game is now more than a week behind us and the Final Four is almost two weeks back. Stanford’s “magical” NIT run ended 14 days ago and Arizona’s loss to Wisconsin in the Elite...
View ArticleWest Coast Bias: Pac-12 Media Day Happenings
They say the media doesn’t pay attention to anything that happens out West, but no such claim could be made yesterday. Here is a team-by-team breakdown of the 2015 edition of Pac-12 Media Day, in order...
View ArticleThings We Think We Know in the Pac-12
It’s been a long and enjoyable summer, but, while staring out the window at a Los Angeles rainstorm, it’s clear that summertime has come and gone, my oh my. No need to worry, though; that just means...
View ArticleStanford Preview: Life After Randle and Brown
In the next three weeks leading up to season tipoff, the Pac-12 microsite will be evaluating each of the league’s 12 teams. Today, we head to Palo Alto. Stanford Cardinal It feels like we are entering...
View ArticleBurning Questions: Pac-12’s Best Coach
In recent weeks, we’ve gone through the best point guards, big men and wings in the conference. But why stop there? We need to fill in the entirety of the program. So, today, we asked our contributors...
View ArticleReviewing Day One at the Pac-12 Tournament
The Pac-12 Tournament got underway on Wednesday in Las Vegas. Four games; three total blowouts; one marginal blowout. Still, lots went down. Let’s dig in quickly below. Washington 91, Stanford 68 Are...
View ArticleWhen to Fire Your Head Coach?
Mixed in here with the end of the regular season and the start of the postseason is another far less festive time of the college basketball season: firing season. Johnny Dawkins, Joe Scott, Trent...
View ArticlePac-12 Burning Questions: Can Stanford Return to Glory with Jerod Haase?
After eight seasons of slightly better than mediocre basketball, Stanford finally pulled the trigger after a 15-15 season and fired longtime coach Johnny Dawkins. Although the decision barely made a...
View ArticleStanford Basketball Yearning For Its Glory Days (Or Is It?)…
You look around Maples Pavilion and you see empty rows of seats. If you look hard enough, I’m sure you could even find columns of seats right up to the not-all-that-high Maples ceiling. There’s empty...
View ArticleWhat’s Trending: NCAA Tournament Edition
What’s Trending is a column examining the week that was in college basketball social media. Matthew Eisenberg (@matteise) is your weekly host. Looking back at the first two rounds of the 2019 NCAA...
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