RTC Weekly Primer: Don’t Sleep on Mid-December Games
Every Monday (sometimes Tuesday), Henry Bushnell will provide a look ahead at the week to come. He’ll discuss the week’s top storylines, preview the three most prominent and compelling games, put a...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: A Calm Before the Storm
Every Monday (and sometimes Tuesday), Henry Bushnell will provide a look ahead at the week to come. He’ll discuss the week’s top storylines, preview the three most prominent and compelling games, put a...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: The Wait is Over, Conference Season is Here…
The wait is over. The wait is finally over. For a month and a half now, college basketball has kept us intermittently engrossed. There have been glimpses of the beauty, sniffs of the joy. But beginning...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: An Ode to the Big 12
Money talks. It’s an unavoidable and unfortunate truth. In almost any facet of life, money is persuasive. Whether indirectly or directly, visibly or otherwise, it influences the decisions we make,...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: Hilton Magic, Yum!, and Battle Out West
The first two months of the college basketball season are all about landmarks. Okay, they’re not all about landmarks, but they are about building up to something more important, and landmarks help us...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: SEC Squishy Middle, Love for Big 12, Coach 1K, More…
Okay, okay, we get it… the Big 12 is awesome. I’ve made that pretty clear in past columns, and you probably don’t need me to tell you something so obvious. Monday night offered up yet another prominent...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: Duke’s Hell Week
The hurdles just keep on coming. That’s what Mike Krzyzewski and Duke must be thinking right now. After a glorious Sunday and heartfelt celebrations, including a hero’s welcome back home in Durham, the...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: At Long Last, It’s Basketball Season
It’s basketball season. At long last, it’s basketball season. It’s a shame that the general sports-loving public takes so long to realize that’s the case, but regardless of their failures and...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: Road Warrior Week as Pressure Mounts at the Top
As we approach Selection Sunday — and, yes, it is now a mere 33 days away — two ends of the spectrum dominate the college basketball conversation. One of those is the bubble. The other, of course, is...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: UNC-Duke, No. 1 Seeds, and a Tight Bubble
They say time flies when you’re having fun, so by the transitive property, they might as well say time flies during college basketball season. But seriously, this season seems to have sped by. Maybe...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: Who Can Make a Run in March?
It happens every year. Every single year. Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but more often than not, there comes a time in a college basketball season when the entire hoops world witnesses...
View ArticleRTC Weekly Primer: Regular Season Championships and Potential Cinderellas
The bubble is everywhere. You can’t escape it. Pick any site that covers college basketball, and one word inevitably appears when you visit it: “bubble.” Blind résumés are all the rage; Joey Brackets...
View ArticleChampionship Week Primer: Bid-Stealers and Teams to Watch
Championship Week is upon us. And while some mid-majors have already locked up their spots in the Big Dance, it’s time for the major conference tournaments to get under way. Here’s a brief look at each...
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