The Sun Belt conference comes into this with their heads high after Florida Atlantic did the conference proud by thumping Memphis 44-27 in the New Orleans Bowl. The Owls come back primed to win the conference and get back to a bowl game. Troy was hit hard by graduation but has plenty of talent to fill those positions. The WarHawks of UL-Monroe will be looking to build on their huge upset of Alabam ... read more
The MWC was the first non-BCS conference to have a representative in a BCS bowl game in 2004. This may be the year the MWC conference gets a team back in the top tier of bowl games. The BYU Cougars have won 16 straight conference games they win by an average of 20 points per game and are coming off of a bowl game victory over UCLA. The Utah Utes have played BYU to the wire the last two seasons and ... read more
The Western Conference has lived up to its billing of competitive playoffs in the early series. Throw out the Lakers running all over the defenseless Nuggets in the first round and the rest of the series have been competitive. The Lakers received a scare in the second round versus the Utah Jazz when Kobe hurt his back on a jump shot. The Laker fans were soon relieved to see their MVP shake off th ... read more
As expected, The Boston Celtics will be facing the Detroit Pistons in the conference finals. The paths that both teams traveled to get to this point were not the blueprints that the regular season laid out for. The Celtics came into the playoffs with the best overall record of 66-16. They also had the best road record in the league with a record of 31-10. We would have never believed the Celtics ... read more
It’s been three weeks since the NBA Playoffs started and there is no clear cut favorite to be the champion. Three of the four semi-final series are all knotted up at two games apiece. The Pistons have the only decisive 3-1 lead and did so without the services of their veteran point guard Chauncey Billups. Just last week the home teams in these series had won all eight home games with conviction. T ... read more