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Sunday, November 24, 2024
With the ancient Great Alaska Shootout at its end with its 40th and final edition later this week, the Maui Invitational soon will move to a role in college basketball as not just the sport’s best in-season tournament, but also its oldest among eight-team tourneys.
Another quiet weekend included college football again making for light schedules, plus some underwhelming fields in eight-team tournaments. Here are some quick-hit notes from the third weekend of November and second of the hoops season:
By now there should be no surprise to it anymore, but that doesn’t make it any less notable just what a job Texas-Arlington has done in becoming one of college basketball’s most impressive road teams.
We may be barely a week into the college basketball season, but it’s not hard to make an argument that a number of teams and conferences just might be already entering the most important 7-10 days in their regular seasons.
Minnesota and Providence provided one of the best matchups of the young season, something we’ve come to expect from the Gavitt Games, which gets it right better than most conference challenge events.
The first three days of the college basketball season have been largely uneventful, not surprising when schedules are littered with endless guarantee games and schools seemingly have little interest in even playing at all so early in November. Here are some quick-hit notes looking around the country after the first weekend of regular season hoops:
If Friday’s open of the college basketball season was a celebration (even if an unsatisfying one, with its smorgasbord of lousy guarantee games and non-Division I opponents), then Saturday must’ve been the hangover. At the least, the second day of the season is a reality check. It’s a reminder of not only how poorly college hoops starts its year, but also how a current attempt to address it gets it all wrong.
Good morning, and welcome to the 2017-18 college basketball season. With games starting this morning, we conclude Hoopville’s preseason rundown of all 32 NCAA Division I conferences:
We conclude our look at our favorite games for every day of the season from November through February, our ultimate dream road trip through an entire college basketball season.
We are now on the eve of the regular season, which is just one day away. We move on with Hoopville’s preseason rundown of all 32 NCAA Division I conferences:
