Thou Shalt Not Tech the Cheerleaders…
Ray Floriani of College Chalktalk is the RTC correspondent for the MAAC and NEC Conferences. When he’s not writing, he serves as a basketball official in various New Jersey amateur leagues. SOUTH...
View ArticleSome Floor Time With The Big Time
Ray Floriani of College Chalktalk is a contributing writer for Rush The Court. In his spare time, he officiates basketball at various levels and recently had the occasion to share the floor with a...
View ArticleMorning Five: 11.19.09 Edition
The holidays are approaching and lucky for us, Karen Sypher truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Ms. Sypher was charged today by a Louisville grand jury with the federal crime of retaliation...
View ArticleATB: Karl Hess Isn’t Invited to Our Thanksgiving Dinner Either
Sean McDonough Rips Karl Hess. Rarely will you hear an announcer publically call out an NCAA basketball official by name for a terrible call, but during the second half of the Vanderbilt-Arizona game...
View ArticleMorning Five: 01.25.10 Edition
Thoughts and prayers from the RTC family to Samford head coach Jimmy Tillette, who collapsed on the bench Saturday during a game versus UNC-Greensboro. He was in the process of being airlifted to UAB...
View ArticleMorning Five: 10.07.10 Edition
Has anyone else noticed that the little countdown clock above is down to seven days and change until Midnight Madness hits? Yeah, thought so. One of the problems with MM (inasmuch as there can be a...
View ArticleMorning Five: 12.07.10 Edition
For those of you who, like us, are into such things, Ken Pomeroy added the player ratings to his website late last night. Some of the more interesting findings after one month of the season?...
View ArticlePlayers Still Struggling With Foot-in-Mouth Disease
It’s nothing new that athletes love to talk. Mostly about themselves, but sometimes about completely unrelated things too. Such as… girlfriends, coaches, other players, fans, referees, or anything...
View ArticleA Rational Discussion of ACC Officiating
I waited a few hours to write this article because I wanted a chance to digest the game and get past the officiating. Instead it became about the officiating in NC State‘s loss to North Carolina, which...
View ArticleATB: Big Dance Day One Roundup — Two Upsets, Top Four Seeds Roll, Defending...
Tonight’s Lede – It’s madness, baby!!! The real start of the NCAA Tournament arrived on Thursday afternoon, as did the collective drop of productivity from employees across the country. March Madness...
View ArticleATB: Absolute MADNESS – Chaos Ensues As Round of 64 Concludes…
Tonight’s Lede – Thursday was a fairly slow first day of NCAA Tournament action, producing just two total upsets and leaving much to be desired in terms of thrilling finishes. Friday was a completely...
View ArticleATB: Fantastic Final Four – Buckeyes Squash the Orange, Carolina Misses...
This Weekend’s Lede. The Final Four is set and ready for action with some of the biggest storylines in years. There were no Cinderella stories on this second weekend, as the Elite Eight was comprised...
View Article2011-12 Season Recap: The 12 Most Iconic Moments of the Season
Evan Jacoby is a regular contributor for RTC. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter. A season in sports often gets remembered by a handful of different memories that fans can recall when thinking...
View ArticleIn Revisiting Block/Charge Call, NCAA Encourages Fundamental Defense
Who knows what’s gotten into the NCAA lately, but it’s actually getting more and more things right as far as rule changes go. Last night at midnight a new rule went into effect allowing coaches...
View ArticleTen Tuesday Scribbles: On Illinois, Undefeated Teams, A Blown Call Nobody...
Brian Otskey is an RTC columnist. Every Tuesday during the regular season he’ll be giving his 10 thoughts on the previous week’s action. You can find him on Twitter @botskey. Illinois fans, here is my...
View ArticleMorning Five: 10.16.13 Edition
Maybe we should just start calling this post the Wiggins Five, given how often Andrew Wiggins is finding his way into it without having played a single minute of college basketball. But yesterday’s...
View ArticleBobby Dibler, Pac-12 Officiating Coordinator, May We Never Hear From You Again
Adam Butler of Pachoops.com (@pachoopsab) joins us as a guest columnist for the second straight year. He took in the Pac-12 Media Day on Thursday. He took to the stage rather unassumingly and...
View ArticleJabari Parker’s Skill Set Reminiscent of Versatile Past Duke Stars
Countdown to Craziness, Duke’s version of Midnight Madness, was held before a packed Cameron Indoor Stadium on Friday night. The evening featured a variety of entertainment, but the feature act was the...
View ArticleMorning Five: 10.24.13 Edition
The last time anyone saw UCLA’s mammoth center Josh Smith, this equally hilarious but also pathetic GIF was the result. To everyone else, the Airball Layup Incident may have been just another amusing...
View ArticleHalloween Tricks and Treats For Hoops Fans Everywhere
As an army of ghosts, goblins, witches and werewolves prepares to descend upon neighborhoods from coast to coast, we thought it might be worthwhile to hand out a few tricks and treats of our own before...
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