North Carolina beat Syracuse in a game where both offenses were very good. The difference was largely in what the Tar Heels did inside the arc.
Month: January 2017
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 18, 2017
For a day that looked like an uneventful one when surveying the schedule of games for the night, Tuesday was anything but a dull one in college basketball. A career ended early, a coaching veteran returning, a coaching tiff in the always-entertaining Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, and an en fuego shooting […]
Scanning the Nation January 17, 2017: notes from across college hoops
We’re well past the turn of the new year now, settled firmly into conference play, and around-the-clock talk of bracketology and Joe Lunardi on ESPN 25 hours a day is just around the corner (in the rare case with that network, this is not a bad thing-there’s never enough of affable Joe in February and March). Here are some notes from around college basketball:
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 17, 2017
In a sport where lack of quality exposure is regularly decried yet creativity and innovation are so frequently lacking, the Big East and Fox Sports 1 deserve a call as a welcome exception to the norm. The same partners that brought forth the sweet idea of a New Year’s Eve […]
Notre Dame’s late successes not simply a case of Irish luck
Notre Dame is the only ACC team that is undefeated in conference play early on, and they have made it to this point with a lot of big plays late in games to pull out close ones.
Box score Breakdown: St. Bonaventure 73, Fordham 53
Ray looks at St. Bonaventure going a little ways from home to get a win, as well as other road teams in the Atlantic 10 having some success in the early going.
The Morning Dish – Monday, January 16, 2017
There is at last some hope for Georgia Tech, even though it is early in a coach’s tenure. Plus a traditional Missouri Valley contender finally gets their first conference win, and some top high school players are honored.
Saturday Notes – January 14, 2017
On a day where the best matchup ended up being a dud in the second half, a few conferences continue to be very competitive in the early going.
Miami’s Larranaga beats the odds in getting to 600 wins
Jim Larranaga picked up his 600th career win, and a big part of that journey has been quite remarkable. There is surely more to come.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 15, 2017
Super mega ultra conferences can collect members like teenage boys once accumulated baseball cards. They can even brag about having 10, 11, 12 NCAA Tournament contenders. That will never change this fact: there is no substitute for a double round-robin conference race in college basketball. The Missouri Valley Conference is […]
