Back in football season, I noted how little attention BC got from the local media. That doesn’t change come basketball season. The Boston Globe’s lone article on the game was really just part of a notes article listed under women’s basketball.
Eagles are pitted against a tough foe: Skinner is wary of seventh-ranked Panthers
The Boston Herald isn’t any better.
Apparently the word of the day is “wary.” How about the word of yesterday?
BC wary of a Pitt fall: Eagles face revitalized opponent
Oh. Well, wary on then.
Over to the Pittsburgh papers. Two columns on Pitt. One repeats the meme: Dixon was the right choice. Look, I’m not trying to hate on Dixon. The guy is doing more than you could hope in his first season. The team is obviously playing hard and well under him. I’m just saying that there needs to be a little perspective before you just declare that this was the right choice. What if the team flames out in a first round upset in the NCAA Tournament (I can’t believe I get to type that — the presumption, the arrogance)? Or what happens if they don’t make it past the first or second round of the Big East Tournament? It really will take a year or two to get to the point where you can better evaluate this.
The other is from radio guy Madden. Madden talking Pitt hoops? Madden talking hoops at all? I guess that is what happens when the NFL draft is still 2 1/2 months away, the Penguins are trying to hang on until the lock out/strike and the Pirates just suck. Well it’s a piece about how this team is better than last year’s team. I think a compelling case could be made, but his reasoning isn’t particular compelling.
Cook has a lazy columnist crutch — the one liner grab bag with a few things to say about Pitt. And one cheap shot for all the Penn State haters
What has it been? A month since a Penn State football player has been arrested? I’m not sure, but I think that’s a record.
A couple nice articles on Jaron Brown and his realistic expectations for life after Pitt (hint, not the NBA).
Both beat reporters for the Pittsburgh papers lead with the story of Craig Smith of BC and the fact that he came from California because USC and UCLA weren’t interested. I think everyone is just about sick of the winter weather.
