Ernie Kent Out At Oregon
Oregon head coach Ernie Kent has been fired, according to a report from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The first report about this actually surfaced during the second half of the Ducks’ Senior Day...
View ArticleMorning Five: 03.11.10 Edition
Folks, if there was ever a day in our history where we actually fit the word ubiquitous in our little slogan at the top of the screen there, today is that day (ok, maybe tomorrow and Saturday too)....
View ArticleRTC Live: Pac-10 Qtrs – California vs. Oregon
We’re here at the conference tournament quarterfinal round at what we like to call the best mid-major league in America, the Pac-10 Conference. Cal might be a ‘favorite,’ but that term is relative in...
View ArticleThe Argument for the 96 Team Tournament? 31 Fewer Hot Seats
Since the whispers started about the NCAA expanding March Madness to 96 teams opinion on the issue has been divided into camps: the traditionalists (bloggers) and the radicals (coaches). Wait a minute....
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.10.10 Edition
A couple of years ago we posted an article about teams taking advantage of a bylaw allowing them to start their season early by playing overseas once every four years. Coming into this season Oregon...
View ArticleSummer School in the Pac-10
Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 and Mountain West Conferences. Around the Pac-10: Down Times: Last season was clearly one of the low points in Pac-10 basketball history. It took...
View ArticleRecruiting Rumor Mill: 09.27.10 Edition
After a prolonged absence from the summer circuit it appears like Sonny Vaccaro, who was once quiet possibly the most powerful man in AAU basketball, is making his triumphant return. As Gary Parrish...
View ArticleEulogy For an Old Barn: Oregon’s McArthur Court
Kenny Ocker is an RTC contributor. Oregon’s basketball game Saturday against Arizona State on the surface seems to just be an early-season Pac-10 Conference game between two teams that started off...
View ArticlePac-12 Morning Five: 3.13.12 Edition
After at least a week, and more likely months of conjecture, it’s official: the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament is head to Las Vegas. In a news conference schedules for this afternoon, the...
View ArticleMorning Five: 04.12.12 Edition
Last night the college basketball world was hijacked by announcements from Shabazz Muhammad and Nerlens Noel about where they would he headed next season. The news from Muhammad’s camp leaked before...
View ArticleOregon Week: Evaluating The Recent Past
In what could be considered one of the top few-year spans in recent Pac-10/12 history, Oregon was right in the thick of it from 2006-08. Ernie Kent led the Ducks to back-to-back NCAA Tournament...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: The Halloween Edition
Happy Halloween, everyone. Arizona will treat its fans to an exhibition against Humboldt State tonight at the McKale Center. Exhibitions are usually for the die-hards, but probably more than a few...
View ArticleMarching To Vegas: Washington Loses, Conference Groans
From the moment it was first rumored, the relocation of the conference tournament to Las Vegas has created quite a buzz among Pac-12 basketball fans. Adam Butler (@pachoopsAB) of PacHoops will be here...
View ArticlePac-12 M5: 11.29.12 Edition
UCLA lost its second player in just four days on Wednesday when it was announced that junior center Joshua Smith had left the team. After not practicing on Tuesday due to weight issues and to mull...
View ArticleThe Civil War: For Oregon and Oregon State, One Game Says It All
Kenny Ocker (@kennyocker on Twitter) is an RTC correspondent. He filed this report after Sunday night’s Civil War game between Oregon State and Oregon in Corvallis. After December drags on with a...
View ArticleMorning Five: 04.01.14 Edition
South Florida appears to have its next coach and hopefully he has completed the coursework that he says he has. Yesterday, the school announced that Orlando Antigua would be its next head coach....
View ArticlePac-12 Coaching Turnover: Montgomery Out; Kent In; Robinson Holds
At the end of the Pac-12 Tournament, it seemed like we would get through this offseason with just one Pac-12 head coaching change – Washington State, where Ken Bone’s five-year run in Pullman was...
View ArticleYour Way-Too-Early 2014-15 Pac-12 Power Rankings
Another season in the books; another Pac-12 disappointment. We’ve got plenty of time to look back on the 2013-14 season, but it is onward and upward from here as we briefly look ahead to next year....
View ArticlePac-12 Post-Mortems: Washington State
Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll go through each Pac-12 team one by one and recount the season that has just completed and begin to turn the page to what we might see next season. Today, Washington...
View ArticlePac-12 Offseason Wrap-Up
With basketball season now officially a speck on the horizon, it is time to dig back in and begin the trek that will eventually drop us off at the Final Four in Indianapolis on the first weekend of...
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