Although inevitably overshadowed by the excitement of college and pro football season, the horror of the child-rape and coverup calamity at Penn State, the seemingly endless drama of conference realignment, and the “nuclear winter” of the NBA, something wonderful has happened in the last week or so: college basketball season started. It actually tipped off on Monday, kicked into high… Read more »
Okay, so it’s not, er, quite as momentous as the birth of our third child. But I’m still irrationally excited about the arrival this afternoon of #tigerballz, part of my Mid-Majority Season 8 membership packet. As is Loyabelle, apparently, judging by this picture: Heh.
When we last left the #ZombieWAC, it was on life support after the near-death experience of almost losing Utah State and San Jose State to the Mountain West. That followed on the heels of seemingly getting a new lease on life that would allow it limp forward for some time as an Island of Misfit Mascots Division I Programs From… Read more »
The fifth-place finisher in the six-team Sun Belt West, Arkansas-Little Rock (19-16 overall, 7-9 in regular-season conference play, RPI #200), is your 2011 Sun Belt Champion, bound for the NCAA Tournament (almost certainly by way of Dayton) for the first time since 1990, thanks to the last-second heroics of conference player of the year Solomon Bozeman. What a game! Congratulations… Read more »
Florida International 53, Denver 49, final. The Pioneers’ season is over, ending with a profound whimper. DU finishes a deeply disappointing 13-17 overall, 9-8 in a weak Sun Belt, a first-round exit from the SBC tourney, and no postseason appearance. Those great expectations? Completely unmet. Yes, there were major injury problems with this team this year, and they have the… Read more »
Below is a CoverItLive window showing all the tweets on @PioneerPulse, automatically imported. This post will serve as my running “liveblog” of the Pioneers’ season. Feel free to respond either by commenting here or by tweeting something at @PioneerPulse. Pioneer Pulse tweets [Originally timestamped 2/5/2011 at 11:08 PM; bumped to top. -ed.]
It’s not DU-related, but Pioneer Pulse readers may enjoy my belated full blog writeup of “Brendan & DU Bally’s Excellent Above-the-Red-Line Adventure” to BYU-Wyoming and SDSU-Colorado State. Hopefully I’ll be going on another “Excellent Adventure” next week — to Hot Springs, Arkansas and then Greeley, Colorado. If Denver makes the Sun Belt title game, I’ll be in Hot Springs on… Read more »
Thursday’s heartbreaker at Louisiana-Lafayette and Saturday’s pratfall at North Texas, combined with other results around the Sun Belt, doomed Denver to a #3 seed in next week’s Sun Belt Tournament in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and a first-round game against East cellar-dweller Florida International (of Isiah Thomas fame) instead of a bye into the quarterfinals. That’s a real bummer, considering Denver… Read more »
Today’s unexpected and heartbreaking home loss to South Alabama, in which Denver blew a 15-point lead, badly damaged the Pioneers’ hopes of winning the Sun Belt West Division, and put at risk their chances of finishing in the Top 2 and thus earning a bye to the conference tourney quarterfinals in Hot Springs next month. The defeat dropped DU into… Read more »
As detailed in my liveblog, Denver walloped struggling Louisiana-Monroe, 65-37 at Magness Arena on Friday — and in the process, took back sole possession of the Sun Belt West Division lead, thanks to Louisiana-Lafayette’s win over Arkansas State. Here are the AP story and the Denver Post story on the DU-ULM game. Both include the money quote from leading scorer… Read more »