The first Saturday of the new year brought us a rarity in college basketball during conference play: a day with few meaningful upsets of any kind. Nineteen nationally ranked teams played on Saturday. Eighteen of them won. The only one that didn’t (Virginia Tech) was playing on the road against […]
Month: January 2017
The Morning Dish – Saturday, January 7, 2017
The first of a few showdown games in the Atlantic 10 went about as expected – a close one. Plus an ACC team gets a player back, and a winter storm leaves its mark down south.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 6, 2017
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has furnished more than its share of scoring machines in the league’s 36-year history, and Fairfield’s Curtis Cobb put his name among some heady company Thursday night.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 5, 2017
There’s a whole lot of the 2016-17 college basketball season left, but there won’t be a lot more regular season dates more captivating than Wednesday night was across the national landscape.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 4, 2017
One Big 12 team earned a signature win Tuesday night, the kind that may well be a golden ticket right into the NCAA Tournament in March. Another Big 12 team had a chance to do the exact same thing-and missed in excuciating fashion. Texas Tech and Kansas State are two of […]
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 3, 2017
On the second day of 2017, a medium-weight college basketball schedule included quite a few games, though few of the high profile variety. Regardless of the stories developing early in some conferences (the Metro Atlantic and Southland being turned upside down, for example), it can’t be ignored that the biggest […]
The Morning Dish – Monday, January 2, 2017
Sunday capped off a wacky first weekend of conference play, and could be the start of quite a couple of months. Plus a tough loss for an Atlantic 10 team that already lost another player.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 1, 2017
Good morning, Happy New Year and welcome to 2017! Wishing all a blessed and prosperous year ahead.