Subject: College Basketball

• Larry Hughes: URL All-Star

  January 8, 2008

• The early days of "Psycho T" Tyler Hansbrough in Poplar Bluff

  March 26, 2008

• The early days of "Psycho T" Tyler Hansbrough in Poplar Bluff

  March 26, 2008

• Larry Hughes: URL All-Star

  January 8, 2008

• Female Final Four Frolics

  April 1, 2009

• St. Louis Eliminated from Final Four: 2012-2016

  The NCAA announced this morning the cities that will host the Final Four from 2012 to 2016, and St. Louis isn't one of them. From the press release: The committee received bid proposals from 10 cities – Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, North Texas, Phoenix/Glendale, San Antonio and St. Louis, all of which were named finalists. March 30, 2005 RFT insert. The last time St. Louis hosted the final rounds of the men's college basketball tournament was in 200

  November 19, 2008

• SLU Stomped By 16th Ranked Xavier

  While every college sports fan on the planet was busy nodding off to the most boring BCS National Championship in recent memory, SLU basketball got their asses handed to them by 16th ranked Xavier in their A-10 conference opener, losing 70-44.Luckily for them, even though the game was nationally televised nobody saw the beat-down. Not only were most people tuning into Florida-Oklahoma, the game was carried on CBS College Sports, which isn't available on any Charter cable package. Pretty sweet TV

  January 9, 2009

• Local College Hoops: A Rundown on The Rundown

  So what if March is still two months away? It certainly hasn't stopped ESPN's Joe Lunardi from updating his highly addictive Bracketology feature and projecting the entire 65 team NCAA tournament field despite the fact that most teams have only played one or two conference games and perhaps a pushover like "Lugnut Tech State A&M."Working off a combination of Lunardi's projection, the AP and ESPN/USA Today polls, and pure speculation, here comes the first ever Rundown ranking of the top ten l

  January 13, 2009

• Did Mizzou Hoopster 'Misremember' His Relationship to NBA Superstar?

  This courtesy of Deadspin. Apparently New Orleans Hornets Chris Paul, aka "CP3," has missed a lot of family reunions or freshman Missouri Tiger guard Miguel Paul made up a heck'uva story. (Roger Clemens might call it a "misremember.") In November, Miguel Paul told a reporter with the Columbia Missourian that he met his cousin Chris Paul for the first time following one of his high-school basketball games a couple years back.  Paul's cousin, New Orleans Hornets all-star

  January 14, 2009

• SLU Ski Team Loses to Richmond

  Just when I point out that SLU needs to give "veteran" players like senior Barry Eberhardt and sophomore Paul Eckerle more minutes, a game like the one yesterday against Richmond happens. SLU fought hard in their 70-62 loss, but with freshman point guard Kwamain Mitchell out with a concussion, they never really had a chance. Not only was Eberhardt completely lost on defense, coach Rick Majerus was forced to give significant minutes to SLU's incredibly inexperienced and overmatched freshmen

  January 26, 2009

• This Week

  December 16, 1998

• SLU vs. Duquense: A Rundown Diary

  SLU defeated Duquense at Chaifetz Arena last night, 78-74 in overtime. Here's a log of the game, updated this morning to include a few pictures and the highlights from coach Rick Majerus' post game comments.  Pre-game notes: The Billikens are coming off an impressive 88-58 at Fordham in which they shot a remarkable 63 percent from the floor. SLU may not be going to the postseason anytime soon but at least they're not the doormats of the conference anymore. How much does Fordham have to suck

  February 5, 2009

• How About Those Billikens?

  Mardi Gras kept me from joining the sold-out crowd on Saturday at Chaifetz Arena, so when I saw that Saint Louis University's men's basketball team somehow managed to beat Dayton 57-49, my eyes nearly popped out of my mildly hungover head.Just from speaking to others who attended and reading the Associated Press and Post-Dispatch accounts of the game, it sounds like the Billikens finally put it all together in one game for the first time all year. As one colleague noted, "It finally looks l

  February 23, 2009

• The Rebirth of Mizzou Basketball

  I hate the NBA pretty much unequivocally, and the college game is only marginally better.While it can certainly be a beautiful game at its best, when the execution is just right, most of the time modern basketball consists of a hulking giant who would be under investigation for massive steroid use in any other sport, dribbling the ball down the court, until he reaches a point about two or three feet outside the three point arc. At that point, he takes one final dribble, then runs about five step

  February 26, 2009

• Nothin' But Net

  March 24, 1999

• Men and Women's Wash U. Bears Headed to Final Four

  wustl.eduMen's coach Mark Edwards celebrated his 500th career win earlier this season.The Washington University men's basketball team knocked off the Nos. 1 and 3 seeds last weekend in the NCAA Division III tournament to advance to the semi-finals. This year's trip to the Final Four marks the third straight season in which the men's team has survived to the final rounds of the touney. Last year's team won the championship. The Bears, seeded No. 2, take on No. 23 Guilford College on Friday at 4 p

  March 18, 2009

• Eight Reasons Mizzou Will Make the Elite Eight

  Just before the Madness began last week, I laid out a lengthy list of reasons why Missouri would fail in the first few rounds of the tournament, pointing out a few of the Tigers' most glaring weaknesses and the dangers of each potential early round match-up.Just pretend this is a tiger next to eight cowboy hats and a huge number 8, ready to devour John Calipari and his Memphis Tigers.Now Mizzou has reached the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 2002 and they're one very difficult win away fr

  March 24, 2009

• Four Reasons Mizzou Will Make the Final Four

  Mizzou's win last night over Memphis combined all the ingredients for a March Madness special.A three-quarter court shot at the buzzer? Check. Enough bricks from the free throw line to rebuild Mizzou Arena? Check. 102 points against the most efficient defense in college basketball? Check.Yup, the Tigers are officially dancing with Cinderella at this point.We've already been both optimistic and pessimistic about the MU's bracket-busting chances here on the Rundown, listing 16 reasons why they wou

  March 27, 2009

• Time For Missouri Fans to Panic -- Mike Anderson Going to Memphis?

  All along through the tournament run that Mizzou just made, I would constantly hear from people, "Oh, Anderson's gone. Kentucky is going to snatch him up." But Kentucky wasn't going to take Mike Anderson. I thought they would go for a bigger name, a splashy move that makes bold headlines all over the country. I thought they would try to poach Billy Donovan away from Florida. Maybe even a guy like Jim Boeheim from Syracuse. Most of all, though, I always thought that John Calipari was going t

  March 31, 2009

• DECEMBER MADNESS

  December 22, 1999

• From Downtown!

  March 4, 2009

• How Orange Is Our Valley?

  March 5, 2008

• Big Man on Campus

  October 17, 2007

• Arch Madness

  March 1, 2006

• Valley Rally

  The Missouri Valley Conference tournament bounces into Savvis Center

  March 5, 2003

• Basketball by the Book: A Riverfront Times Investigation

  November 1, 2006

• Bank Shot

  Internet hoops junkies fuel Shawn Siegel's Jerry Maguire-like dreams

  March 30, 2005

• Bracketology

  Two SLU professors say they’ve solved the world’s most challenging math problem: your office NCAA pool

  March 22, 2006

• Bet on Black

  Glory Road relives the season college hoops smashed the color barrier

  January 11, 2006

• Full Court Pressure

  January 4, 2006

• Unreal Fouls Out of the Final Four

  The beer-drinking, the game-watching, the east-side partying: We took it all in so you wouldn't have to

  April 6, 2005

• Events

  March 30, 2005

• Welcome!

  March 30, 2005

• Fly Like an Eagle

  To Alton

  December 29, 2004

• Return of the Taller Ballers

  SLU's basketball season kicks off at Savvis

  November 3, 2004

• Best College Athlete

  September 29, 2004

• Tallboys

  The answer to Larry Bird's prayers for a white basketball savior might reside just off Highway 67 in Poplar Bluff

  September 1, 2004

• Bobs and Weaves

  You gotta have style at Spring Bling '04

  March 24, 2004

• Shooting Stars

  Tommie Liddell plays tortoise to Darius Miles’ hare in the annals of East Side High basketball lore

  February 18, 2004

• Underdogs

  Hoop dreams die hard for coach John Campbell and his Sanford-Brown Indians

  October 29, 2003

• Best Coach

  Brad Soderberg
  St. Louis University

  September 24, 2003

• Import Duty

  A former pro basketball player from Israel has to be bigger, stronger and faster for the American college game

  January 1, 2003

• Feed the Beast

  Everybody wants Hazelwood Central's Kalen Grimes and St. Louis' junior class of hoopsters. But recruiting in the city is a courtship dance and a high-maintenance affair.

  December 4, 2002

• The Defense Never Rests

  St. Louis University's Billikens get the ball rolling

  November 20, 2002

• Best College-Sports Team

  September 26, 2001

• Five Reasons Rick Majerus and SLU Will Make the Big Dance

  Image ViaNot even the mascot expected SLU to be this good.​Shhh! Don't tell anyone. We don't want to jinx it but the SLU Billikens are just a few wins away from an NCAA tournament berth.You may not have noticed since the Bills' games are rarely televised locally (and even when they are, they sometimes aren't) but Rick Majerus and Co. have won six games in a row and are in fourth place in the Atlantic-10, a conference that could conceivably send five teams dancing.How does that happen when ever

  February 22, 2010

• Mizzou Bungles Big Dance Bid; SLU's Cinderella Season Still Alive

  Image Via Losing to Nebraska is easy when you shoot like this​If the SLU Billikens needed a lesson on how not to lock-up an NCAA tournament bid on the eve of their showdown with Rhode Island in the A-10 tournament, Mizzou was happy to oblige. The Tigers, who finished fifth in the Big 12 in the regular season, got stomped in the first round of the conference tournament last night, losing 75-60 to lowly Nebraska. The loss puts the Tigers -- who were once all but guaranteed an at-large bid to the

  March 11, 2010

• Sweet! The Sixteen Best Player Names in the 2010 NCAA Tournament

  ​Let the Madness begin! Mizzou is dancing (despite their stumble in the Big 12 tournament) but unfortunately the slipper did not fit for the SLU Billikens, who were pummeled by Rhode Island in the Atlantic 10 tournament and left out of even the lowly NIT, where they could have faced an Illinois team whose bubble also burst on Selection Sunday.But enough of them and onto the bracket. Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse and Duke are the No. 1 seeds and Final Four favorites. Big names though they are in t

  March 15, 2010

• Study: Black Mizzou Hoopsters Graduate FAR Less Often Than Their White Counterparts

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirkhansen/ / CC BY 2.0Graduation rates for white vs. black players = out of whack​Here are some alarming race-related stats, released this week, to keep in mind as March Madness invades your thoughts and the entire universe. According to a study of 64 teams in the men's NCAA Division I Tournament, Mizzou's black basketball players show a 25 percent graduation rate. For white Mizzou players -- a pretty rare breed in the last ten years -- the rate was 100 percent.O

  March 18, 2010