At tonight’s Big Sky title game, courtesy of MockSession: Here’s the photo I took as that was happening: UPDATE: Northern Colorado is going dancing! And I was there to see it! Indeed, much like Kyle and Bally did at Long Island tonight, DU Bally and I rushed the floor with the UNC students: For more photos and video, see my… Read more »
Last night, the league I’ve been following all season (because of my Pioneer Pulse blog), the Sun Belt, provided us with what The Mid-Majority calls the “first eternal highlight reel moment” of this Championship Fortnight: a game-winning #superhoop by Arkansas-Little Rock’s Solomon Bozeman, showing why he was the conference’s player of the year: The entire ending of the game, particularly… 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 »
If the blog looks all screwy this morning, with a big blank space in between the blog content and a tiny right sidebar, view my stylesheet and hit reload on your browser, then come back to this page and again click reload. That should fix it. What I’ve done is create a massive right sidebar for ScribbleLive-fueled live coverage (largely… Read more »
With five days till Selection Sunday, we’re getting closer and closer to the 16th annual Living Room Times basketball pools — NCAA men’s, NCAA women’s and NIT. And I can’t wait!! This year, the men’s NCAA pool will have a newly compressed entry deadline, thanks to the First Four a.k.a. #quadPIG, which can no longer be ignored, as the #PIG… Read more »
The Space Shuttle Discovery is wrapping up its final mission, and this morning the crew was awakened by none other than William Shatner, putting a new twist on the “Star Trek” opening-theme voiceover: When I heard this on CNN, it gave me goose bumps. I kid you not. (NERD!!!)
I’ve been doing most of my March Madness talk on Twitter, but with less an a week till Selection Sunday, it’s high time for a bubble overview. Here’s where things stand right now, per a slightly tweaked version of Andy Glockner‘s breakdown: LOCKS: Arizona, BYU, Cincinnati, Duke, Florida, Georgetown, Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State,… 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 »