Behind the Numbers: The Other Guys of the Year
Kellen Carpenter is an RTC contributor. The Player of the Year race in college basketball is an interesting and bizarre thing. The most talented player is rarely selected, and the winner is seldom a...
View ArticleChecking in on… the MAC
Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference. A Look Back Overall, Mid-American Conference teams went 5-7 in last weekend’s BracketBusters. Not great, but not bad either....
View ArticleO26 Primers: Atlantic 10, MAC and MEAC Tourneys
RTC’s Kevin Doyle, author of the weekly column, The Other 26, and the Patriot League Correspondent, will be providing conference tournament previews for all non-BCS conferences. With the completion of...
View ArticleRTC Conference Primers: #18 – Mid-American Conference
This conference primer was prepared by the RTC staff. If you are knowledgeable about the MAC and have an interest in becoming the correspondent for this league, please e-mail us at...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.15.12 Edition
In what seems to be a summer rite of passage involving several of the top recruits entering college basketball, UCLA’s Shabazz Muhammad is the latest and greatest elite prospect whose eligibility the...
View Article2012-13 RTC Conference Primers: Mid-American Conference
Ethan Back is the MAC correspondent for RTC. Top Storylines Will Ohio Be Able to Reach the Sweet Sixteen Again? After an extremely successful season that ended in an overtime loss in the Sweet Sixteen...
View ArticleBig East M5: 12.06.12 Edition
Teams that wear various shades of orange from ‘T’ states should probably quit scheduling Georgetown. In their last two games, the Hoyas gave up a combined 77 points against Tennessee and Texas....
View ArticleBig East M5: 12.07.12 Edition
Some of the speculation circling the Big East‘s media contract negotiations sound fairly dire, but conference officials and commissioner Mike Aresco remain optimistic. While the league expected to...
View ArticleMurderers’ Row: Five of the Most Ruthless O26 Non-Conference Schedules
Both Long Beach State’s Dan Monson and Oakland’s Greg Kampe are on record in saying that their philosophy of building extremely difficult non-conference schedules, among other things, helps with...
View ArticleConference Tournament Primer: Mid-American Conference
Championship Fortnight continues with yet two more conference tourneys tipping off today, so what better way to get you through the next week of games than to break down each of the Other 26′s...
View ArticleCan Michigan Survive This Storm?
Last weekend was not a good weekend for John Beilein’s Michigan team. Most notable among the afflicting issues was a ground-shaking loss to NJIT, the biggest upset by point spread (NJIT was a...
View ArticleA Soft December Just What the Doctor Ordered For Michigan State
Michigan State’s non-conference schedule has been defined by missed opportunities – first against Duke, then Kansas, then Notre Dame – and now, for the first time in years, it will enter Big Ten play...
View ArticleMAC Primer: Sifting Through a Crowded Pack of Contenders
According to KenPom’s average efficiency rankings, the MAC is currently the 12th-best conference in college basketball, behind the Mountain West and Missouri Valley and just ahead of the Ivy League and...
View ArticleO26 Weekly Awards: Pepperdine, Keifer Sykes, James Whitford & Miami (OH)…
Throughout the season, the Other 26 microsite will run down our weekly superlatives, including team, player, coach and whatever else strikes our fancy in that week’s edition. O26 Team of the Week...
View ArticleWhat’s Trending: Closer and Closer to February
What’s Trending is a column examining the week that was in college basketball social media. Griffin Wong (@griffwong90) is your weekly host. #AveryStrong This past Saturday’s game in Lincoln was...
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