Roadblog - Black Cat
I’m nowhere near half as pretty, but it seems that I’ve been an angel of death recently — in a basketball sense. I hadn’t really noticed it until recently, when my Blue Ribbon boss Chris Dortch sent me an e-mail about it. It read, in part:

Game! Of! The! Night! 1/14/2009 - Drake at Illinois State
There's a lot of relativity, onion-peeling and head-shaking involved in mid-major analysis. It's generally accepted that the Missouri Valley is headed to a second consecutive one-bid year, because there isn't the kind of high-powered team, or the nonconference wins, that Selection Committees like to see.. You figure it out.

Davidson ready to face the ACC
The great American banking center of Charlotte, N.C., lies at the tender, barbecue-basted heart of ACC country. It's the home of the 2008 ACC men's basketball tourney, and the Observer is widely regarded as the conference's newspaper of record.

Good Morning Hoops Nation January 20
WASHINGTON -- In the next several days, you're likely to read many accounts of these days by special columnists (even some sportswriters) who have spent the last few days being whisked from inaugural ball to celebrity gala, who've worn tuxedos to fine restaurants and will sit in special boxes watching the swearing-in -- so close to the podium as to see the pebble-grain pattern on the Bible.

The Boubacar 1-30-2008 (Badlands Edition)
We were looking for a logo to replace the up-arrow that the former Mid-Continent Conference chose when it changed its name over the summer. We don't particularly like the new name, or the idea that "mid" is somehow negative (glass.. half full!). We also believe that the Badlands Conference moniker shows off the actual region most of these teams are from, and it's kind of Bad-Ass as well.