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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Miami continues to win without big man Reggie Johnson as other players continue to play an increased role. The Hurricanes just finished a tough stretch of road games with impressive results, and when Johnson returns this team should only be that much better.
Peyton Siva’s value to a deep and talented Louisville team was driven home in Monday night’s win at Connecticut. The game was a tale of two halves, with Siva playing no role in one and a big role in the other.
Charlotte doesn’t have a star and won’t produce box scores that will jump out at you. But the 49ers have depth and balance, play good defense and take shots they can make offensively, and they are now 14-2 overall and 2-0 in early Atlantic 10 games.
Thursday night’s loss at Bryant might look like a good night for Quinnipiac in the offensive department. But look a little further and that doesn’t appear to be the case, as old demons showed up again along the way.
There are more indications all the time of how far Bryant has come since its Division I beginning as plenty of program” firsts” in the Division I era keep coming. More of them came on Thursday night in the Bulldogs’ 103-95 win over Quinnipiac.
When you’ve won over 900 games, as Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim has, there are bound to be some unusual ones along the way and some won without big-time stars. Wednesday night’s win in Providence was one of both.
Niagara had a chance for a road win and a little more momentum early in MAAC play. But rebounding and turnovers combined to doom them in a game where they built up a 19-point lead early that they surrendered en route to a tough loss.
Florida had just the ending to their non-conference slate they needed on Sunday. The 79-58 margin at Yale tells the story for the game but doesn’t tell why it looks good for Florida going forward.
If DePaul is going to make the kind of jump in the Big East they may be capable of this season, they’ll have to finish games better than they did on Saturday night at Providence. They built up a 22-point lead, only to see it dwindle into single digits before they sealed it.
Whether or not North Carolina State ultimately meets the expectation many have of them as ACC favorites is an open question as conference play commences. That remains unchanged after pulling out a 78-73 win at Boston College on Saturday.
