(SportsNetwork.com) – A new team will be crowned the Conference USA Tournament Champion for the third year in a row as 12 teams head to Legacy Arena at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex to battle for an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament field. Louisiana Tech (24-7, 15-3) earned the top-seed for the conference tourney after […]

Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – A lot of cotton will be cut and a plethora of hardwood floors will be stormed by waves of ebullient fans by week’s end. It’s that time of year, Championship Week is in full swing. Some teams that are already locks to make the NCAA Tournament will vie to improve their […]

Irving, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – UTEP men’s basketball head coach Tim Floyd will be suspended for Saturday’s game at Southern Miss for violating Conference USA’s sportsmanship policy, the league has announced. In the Miners’ loss to conference-leading Louisiana Tech on Thursday, Floyd took exception to a loose-ball foul near the midpoint of the second half. He […]

Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – It’s normally Kentucky, Florida and somebody else from the Southeastern Conference in the NCAA Tournament. Not this season. Kentucky is still undefeated, Florida isn’t on the radar and countless others are shockingly jockeying for bubble position. The last time college football’s best conference sent as many as six teams to the […]

Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Former Big East Conference rivals get together on Saturday afternoon, as the Syracuse Orange attempt to hand the seventh-ranked Villanova Wildcats their first loss of the season. Syracuse usually runs roughshod through the non-conference portion of its schedule, but Jim Boeheim’s squad has already lost three times. The Orange were able […]

It’s likely to be a similar story in 2014-15, with Kentucky and Florida ranked inside the preseason top-10 and everyone else fighting to prove their worth. For the second straight season, Kentucky enters the year as the No. 1 team in the nation, and while last year’s squad suffered some growing pains during the regular […]