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Joe Cravens
Joseph Dale Cravens (born March 9, 1954) is a former American college basketball coach. He was the head coach at Weber State, and the interim head coach at Utah for most of a season. Born and raised in Scottsburg, Indiana, Cravens played college basketball at Brunswick Junior College in Georgia and transferred to Texas–Arlington for his final two seasons. He was an assistant coach for a year at his alma mater, then at Southwest Texas State in San Marcos for three years, and returned to Texas–Arlington. In 1985, he joined the staff of new head coach Andy Russo at Washington in Seattle for four years in the Pac-10, then went to Utah under new head coach Rick Majerus in 1989. In mid-December, Majerus required major heart surgery and Cravens took over as interim head coach of the Utes in the WAC for the remainder of that After four years in Salt Lake City, Cravens was hired as head coach at Idaho in Moscow in April 1993, succeeding Larry Eustachy, and led the Vandals on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottsburg, Indiana
Scottsburg is a city within Vienna Township and the county seat of Scott County, in the U.S. state of Indiana, about north of Louisville, Kentucky. The population of Scottsburg was 7,345 at the 2020 census. History Scottsburg was platted in 1871. The city was named for Horace Scott, a railroad official. A post office has been in operation at Scottsburg since 1873. The Scott County Home, Scottsburg Courthouse Square Historic District, and Scottsburg Depot are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography Scottsburg is located at (38.685361, -85.769597). According to the 2010 census, Scottsburg has a total area of , of which (or 99.63%) is land and (or 0.37%) is water. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and cold Midwest winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Scottsburg has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Demographics In 2003 Scott County was removed from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Athletic Conference
The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texas. Due to most of the conference's College football, football-playing members leaving the WAC for other affiliations, the conference discontinued football as a sponsored sport after the 2012–13 season and left the NCAA's NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A). The WAC thus became the first Division I conference to drop football since the Big West Conference, Big West in 2000. The WAC then added men's soccer and became one of the NCAA's eleven Division I non-football conferences. The WAC underwent a major expansion on July 1, 2021, with four schools joining. The conference reinstated football at that time and now competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MountainWest Sports Network
The MountainWest Sports Network, also known as The Mtn. (stylized as the mtn.), was an American college sports television channel. Launched on September 1, 2006, it was dedicated to the Mountain West Conference (MWC), including studio programs following the conference, live events, and documentary-style programs profiling the conference's members. It was the first such network of its kind in the United States. The network was a joint venture between the conference's two rightsholders, CBS Corporation and NBCUniversal (initially via Comcast). History The MountainWest Sports Network launched as part of the conference's new television deals with CSTV and Versus (later known as CBS Sports Network and NBCSN), which jointly replaced ESPN. It was the first cable sports network in the United States to be devoted to a single college athletic conference —a business model that would later be emulated by Power Five conferences such as the Big Ten, SEC, and ACC. The channel initially stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena
Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena (Spokane Arena) is a multi-purpose arena in the northwestern United States, located in Spokane, Washington. Opened in 1995, it is home to the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League. Facility Construction With an aging Spokane Coliseum, along with a need for a larger facility more than twice the coliseum's capacity, the Spokane City Council and Board of Spokane County Commissioners formed the Spokane Public Facilities District (SPFD) to acquire, construct, own and operate sports and entertainment facilities with contiguous parking facilities. In 1990, the SPFD board members unanimously agreed on the following recommendations made by an economic feasibility/market study. The recommendations were: *To build an arena opposed to a domed stadium *An arena that could seat 12,000 to 14,000 with expansion capabilities *To build the new arena on city-owned land located adjacent to the old coliseum with on-site parking for 2,000 automobiles Voters rej ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2003 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 18, 2003, and ended with the championship game on April 7 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Superdome. A total of 64 games were played. The Final Four consisted of Kansas, making their second straight appearance, Marquette, making their first appearance since they won the national championship in 1977, Syracuse, making their first appearance since 1996, and Texas, making their first appearance since 1947. Texas was the only top seed to advance to the Final Four; the other three (Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma) advanced as far as the Elite Eight but fell. Syracuse won their first national championship in three tries under Jim Boeheim, defeating Kansas 81–78 in what would be Roy Williams' final game as head coach of the team; he would depart to become the head coach at North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002–03 Wisconsin Badgers Men's Basketball Team
The 2002–03 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 2002–03 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Bo Ryan, coaching his second season with the Badgers. The team played its home games at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Wisconsin finished 24-8, 12-4 in Big Ten play to finish as outright regular season champions for the first time since 1947. In the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament in Chicago, top-seeded Wisconsin was upset by Ohio State. The Badgers received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the fifth seed in the Midwest Region, where they won twice in Spokane, then lost to No. 1 seed Kentucky by six points in the Sweet Sixteen at Minneapolis. Roster : Schedule , - !colspan=12, Regular Season , - !colspan=12, Big Ten tournament , - !colspan=12, NCAA tournament : References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sky Conference
The Big Sky Conference (BSC) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I with football competing in the Football Championship Subdivision. Member institutions are located in the western United States in the eight states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Four affiliate members each participate in one sport: two from California are football–only participants and two from the Northeast participate only in men's golf. History Initially conceived for the Big Sky was founded on July 1, 1963, with six members in four of the charter members have been in the league from its founding, and a fifth returned in 2014 after an 18-year absence. The name "Big Sky" came from the popular 1947 western novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr.; it was proposed by Harry Missildine, a sports columnist of the '' Spokesman-Review'' just prior to the founding meetings of the conference in Spokane in February 1963, and was adopted w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Abegglen
Ron Abegglen (August 19, 1937 – December 19, 2018) was a college basketball coach. Professional career Abegglen was head coach of the Weber State Wildcats team from 1991 to 1999 and at the University of Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves from 1986 to 1991. At Weber State, he led the Wildcats to an upset of North Carolina in the first round of the 1999 NCAA Tournament. As of the end of the 2019–20 season, Abegglen is the only coach since the NCAA eliminated first-round byes in 1980 to defeat the Tar Heels in the first round. The Wildcats then pushed Florida to overtime before losing 82–74. Four years earlier, Abegglen's Wildcats, a 14-seed, upset Michigan State 79–72 and came within two points of upsetting Georgetown. The 1995 and 1999 upsets the deepest runs by a Big Sky team since Idaho Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogden, Utah
Ogden is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,321 in 2020, according to the US Census Bureau, making it Utah's eighth largest city. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history,Maia Armaleo "Grand Junction: Where Two Lines Raced to Drive the Last Spike in Transcontinental Track," ''American Heritage'', June/July 2006. and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a convenient location for and |
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel, St. Gallen a.o.). , coordinates = , largest_city = Zürich , official_languages = , englishmotto = "One for all, all for one" , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , religion = , demonym = , german: Schweizer/Schweizerin, french: Suisse/Suissesse, it, svizzero/svizzera or , rm, Svizzer/Svizra , government_type = Federalism, Federal assembly-independent Directorial system, directorial republic with elements of a direct democracy , leader_title1 = Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Council , leader_name1 = , leader_title2 = , leader_name2 = Walter Thurnherr , legislature = Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palouse
The Palouse ( ) is a distinct geographic region of the northwestern United States, encompassing parts of north central Idaho, southeastern Washington, and, by some definitions, parts of northeast Oregon. It is a major agricultural area, primarily producing wheat and legumes. Situated about north of the Oregon Trail, the region experienced rapid growth in the late 19th century. The Palouse is home to two land-grant universities: the University of Idaho in Moscow and Washington State University in Pullman. Just eight miles (13 km) apart, both schools opened in the early 1890s. Geography and history The origin of the name "Palouse" is unclear. One theory is that the name of the Palus tribe (spelled in early accounts variously as Palus, Palloatpallah, Pelusha, etc.) was converted by French-Canadian fur traders to the more familiar French word , meaning "land with short and thick grass" or "lawn." Over time, the spelling changed to Palouse. Another theory is that the region' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Eustachy
Larry Robert Eustachy (born December 1, 1955) is an American college basketball coach, most recently the head coach of the Colorado State Rams men's basketball, Colorado State Rams He was previously the head coach at Idaho Vandals men's basketball, Idaho and Eustachy was the Associated Press, AP Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year, Coach of the Year in 1999–2000 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2000 after leading 1999–2000 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team, Iowa State to the Elite Eight in the 2000 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, NCAA tournament. Coaching career Idaho At age 34, Eustachy became a head coach at Idaho in April 1990–91 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team, 1990, succeeding Kermit Davis, who left the Palouse for Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball, Texas A&M after consecutive Big Sky Conference, Big Sky 1990 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament, titles and 1990 NCAA Division I men's basketball tourna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
