Southern
Head coaches in this league, perhaps by nature, are a self-effacing bunch. When queried for their 2006-07 conference favorites, most offered a long list of teams that they felt could contend. None of the lists contained their own teams. 

MMBOD Feb 14 - Matt Witt - Eastern Kentucky
Eastern Kentucky was one of the great feel-good stories of last season, completing a five-year rebuilding program by winning 22 games and winning the OVC championship. One of the primary symbols of that team was a pass-first, shoot-last point guard who set the Colonel's tempo with a steady staccato drumbeat.

Tourney Central 3/13/2011 (Day 13)
With its 11th-straight victory, BU (21-13) earns the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Holland scored 23 of his game-high 27 points in the second half en route to earning the league's Reggie Lewis Most Outstanding Player honors for the tournament.. via Boston University .

Good Morning Hoops Nation February 26
ATHENS, Ohio -- As was noted in this kind piece by the newspaper I spent my college career wishing I could work for, next week marks the beginning of what we're really here for, what this is really all about. The conference tourneys mark the third of the four seasons within a season in college basketball, and by far the most wonderful.

The Tin Medalists
During the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, a group of social psychologists performed a test involving second and third-place finishers. They found that bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists, in general — they had made the stand instead of empty-handed but for a participant’s medal, a diploma and mandated drug test.