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2005-06 East Carolina Men's Basketball Preview
Before we can look toward the 2005-06 basketball season, we must reflect upon what has brought us to this point. In 2001-02, East Carolina joined Conference USA, one of the nation's premier basketball conferences, under the direction of former head coach Bill Herrion and orchestrated by former Director of Athletics Mike Hamrick.
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2005-06 Houston Men's Basketball Preview
After leading the University of Houston to its best season in a decade, Tom Penders has the Cougars poised to return to a place they have worked hard to get to, but haven't been since 1992. Last season, his first at UH, Penders guided an undersized, often out-manned team to an 18-14 record and a NIT berth.
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2005-06 Marshall Men's Basketball Preview
The Marshall men's basketball team begins the 2005-06 campaign with an abundance of fresh faces and a transformed a.. itude as the Thundering Herd launches into its new Conference USA affi liation, the sixth conference Marshall has been a part of for men's basketball, and the seventh conference move overall. The Herd spent the previous eight seasons as a member of the Mid-American Conference, and advanced to the quarterfinal round (top eight in the conference) in fi ve out of the last six years, and in each of the last two seasons.
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2005-06 Memphis Men's Basketball Preview
If people see Memphis head coach John Calipari this summer, they may see the Tiger mentor with a huge smile on his face. The reason? For the first time in his six years at Memphis, every Tiger player that was supposed to return is coming back. In other words, no one left early for the professional ranks. The Tigers return seven letterwinners, including a duo of experience in senior Rodney Carney and sophomore Darius Washington Jr. Senior Waki Williams and sophomore Joey Dorsey -- both of whom came on strong late in the season -- also return.
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2005-06 Rice Men's Basketball Preview
This season's Rice Owls basketball team will be vastly different than last year's squad. Missing are two of the top-10 scorers in Rice history in Michael Harris and Jason McKrieth. Harris finished his career as Rice's all-time leading scorer and rebounder, while McKrieth concluded his career as the Owls' seventh all-time leading scorer. Point production this season will certainly be more evenly distributed. Instead of two guys (Harris and McKrieth) averaging 35 points, don't be surprised if the Owls have four or five players averaging 10 or more points per game.
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2005-06 SMU Men's Basketball Preview
The 2005-06 basketball season holds high hopes for the Mustangs. The team will be young with only two seniors, but second-year head coach Jimmy Tubbs believes this team has the right attitude as it works toward the goal of returning SMU to the NCAA Tournament. The Mustangs finished 14-14 in Tubbs' first season as they steadily improved throughout.
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2005-06 Southern Miss Men's Basketball Preview
When it comes to rebuilding a Division I men's basketball program, one can insert any clich? they choose. Whether it's the one where "Rome wasn't built in a day," or the saying that "anything worth doing is worth doing well," one can make the correlation that it takes time to build a competitive, successful program. Regardless of the terminology used, one can be sure that the wanted and desired results won't happen instantaneously.
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2005-06 Tulane Men's Basketball Preview
Back in August, it was apparent that the 2005-06 season would offer plenty of change for the Tulane Green Wave basketball program. After all, the team would be led by a new coach in former Maryland assistant Dave Dickerson, and would play in a "new" Conference USA, featuring six new programs.
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2005-06 Tulsa Men's Basketball Preview
Tulsa basketball is in transition. The past two seasons haven't been anything what Golden Hurricane fans have become accustomed to since the 1980-81 basketball season when Nolan Richardson took a whole new team to the NIT Championship. In the next 23 years, Tulsa basketball became synonymous with success.
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2005-06 UAB Men's Basketball Preview
Talent ... depth ... experience ... tenacity: All words to describe the stable of thoroughbreds Mike Anderson and the UAB Blazers have waiting for their call to the post in 2005-06. The Blazers are coming off a 22-11 campaign in which they made their second straight NCAA Tournament appearance and eye-popping postseason upset. They led the nation in steals for the third straight season - something no other program has ever done.
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2005-06 UCF Men's Basketball Preview
After taking a quick glance at the UCF Golden Knights roster, it is hard to imagine that a team that returns seven letterwinners from last season's 24-9 squad could have a new look. Likewise, it is hard to believe that a team that loses three starters who helped guide it to two consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament would be unchanged in their absence.
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2005-06 UTEP Men's Basketball Preview
Over the last two years, UTEP has won 51 games. Putting that in perspective, UTEP owns more victories than Arizona, Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, Kansas, Oklahoma, Stanford, Syracuse, Texas, Texas Tech, Wake Forest, Washington or Wisconsin during that span.
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