Ken Davis, who took the Drake basketball team to a top 25 ranking, moved on to Providence. The AP Coach of The Year compiled 28 wins this year and took Drake to its first tournament appearance since 1971.
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Madison Square Garden once again hosts a showdown between the top teams of one of the best conferences in the country. The top 7 teams are all in the RPI top 32, so who's gonna win?The Contenders: #1 Georgetown - The Hoyas will have to focus out of the gates, as their first round game will be   more...
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Former Virginia, Xavier, and Providence coach Pete Gillen, who now works for CSTV, wrote a rather depressing column for the NY Post on Tuesday: "WELL, even though Georgetown is gone, three of my Final Four teams are alive - which is unusual. I've had a bad decade - I got fired, no friends, no   more...
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After one of the most hectic personal months in recent memory, ISWT makes a valiant return on Thursday night for the biggest card of the week. It's been a while and I apologize. However, there were some things going on behind the scenes in my life that had to be handled and they were easily more   more...
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Nothing out of the ordinary to report from the Pete last night, as Pitt dominated a poor Providence team, coming away with a 82-63 win that simply helped Pitt keep pace in the Big East. The Panthers are sitting in 5th place, a half-game behind UConn (who beat Pitt) and a half game ahead of   more...
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I'm not sure which man is despised more in Morgantown right now, Ronald Ramon or Rich Rodriguez. Thanks to a clutch three pointer as time expired last night, the former of those two knocked off the WVU basketball team in a game that the Mountaineers needed to, and should have won. Rodriguez, as we   more...
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Which Big East team is best?Syracuse took a hit with the loss of Eric Devendorf (ACL) and Villanova will struggle to replace Cassiem Drummond (broken foot). Pittsburgh has suffered some injuries, too, but I think they were overrated to start. Louisville has been a disaster.ESPN.com's Andy Glockner   more...
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Starting off with a huge play on Saturday with the Buckeyes and Bulldogs. While I'm not taking anything away from Butler and their fantastic guard tandem of A.J. Graves and Mike Green, Ohio State will cover tonight with a huge bloated number. There is absolutely no way -- after being embarrassed by   more...
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For the first time following the thrilling buzzer-beating win over West Virginia, Pitt will take the court tonight, this time taking on the Friars of Providence College. The Friars (13-10, 4-7 Big East) are struggling, so it doesn't look to be a tough game for Pitt. Still, Providence has a win at   more...
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