Top seeds are nearly unbeatable in the quarterfinals of the MVC Tournament over the last 27 years, but rarely have they faced teams early in the tourney as capable as they will this year.
Author: Adam Glatczak
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 27, 2018
We may not be in March just yet, but there’s no better notice that it’s just around the corner than the first college hoops conference tournament tipping off. The Atlantic Sun sat in the pole position for this season, the first of 32 tournaments to get underway Monday night already, nearly two weeks before Selection Sunday.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, February 25, 2018
As the college basketball world waited with the proverbial bated breath on Saturday for more fallout from the FBI investigation into recruiting in the sport, what it got instead was largely a bunch of ‘nothing to see here-check out the shiny object there!’ along with one major development.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 23, 2018
There have been too many teams this season that have spent as much time in the news for off-court reasons as their play. Arizona was in the news again for the first on Thursday, and very nearly for the second two, and neither for good things.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 21, 2018
The Southeastern Conference is almost certainly on the precipice of a banner year for NCAA Tournament berths. Just which of those teams will receive them, though, and what might happen with them when they get there, will continue to be a mystery of the wildest proportions.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Kansas’s run at yet another Big 12 regular season championship is still alive and well. Oklahoma’s run at a seemingly lock NCAA Tournament berth a couple weeks ago may well now be in peril.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, February 18, 2018
In recent years as the season has wound down and bubble talk has heated up, it’s seemed that many teams have all but felt a need to remind us why they were on the fence for selection to the NCAA Tournament. Squads stumbling and bumbling down the stretch, fanning on […]
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 16, 2018
For those who couldn’t resist all the curling and skiing at the Winter Olympics and watched hoops, it was yet another evening of highly ranked teams going down and streaks getting busted, something that has become the norm this year. The TV window of games that started at 7 p.m. Eastern time alone was enough to wear out the remote control as they came to an end.
Bracket preview reactions show need for philosophical discussions on tourney data
Even when there was no reason to be outraged, people were about the results of the NCAA’s bracket preview. Their misplaced anger shows the continued need for discussion of metrics-on all sides.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 13, 2018
With the increasing competitiveness of the Southeastern Conference in basketball, it was only a matter of time before coaches who we thought of as successes would instead be marked as failures and become casualties of the league’s improvement. That didn’t make it any less disappointing to see the news on Monday that Andy Kennedy and Mississippi had made what was termed as a mutual decision to part ways.
