We roll on with a look at our favorite games for every day of the season, our ultimate dream road trip through an entire college basketball year, with a look at January.
Author: Adam Glatczak
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Good morning. With just two days remaining before the 2017-18 season commences (at last), we roll on with Hoopville’s preseason briefs on all 32 NCAA Division I conferences: The Mountain West’s slippage continued last year, as a once reliable multi-bid conference (many forget the league put five in the NCAA […]
A game a day for the 2017-18 season: December
Continuing a look at our favorite games for every day of the 2017-18 college basketball season. We started yesterday with November, and today we continue with December:
A game a day for the 2017-18 season: November
It doesn’t matter how realistic television sets get, or how much fun it might be to follow social media feeds during a sporting event. There is no substitution for being there. And never will be. With that, we present our ultimate road trip for the season if we could have one.
2017-18 CBB Preview Questions: The one giant, unquantifiable variable
Of the many questions one can conjure up entering a season (Who’s the national title favorite? Why is Team XYZ only a 7 seed and not a 6 in someone’s preseason bracketology? How much more hideous can court designs get?), all of them take on a trivial quality this year, even more than they ever might have in the past.
The Morning Dish – Saturday, November 4, 2017
We continue Hoopville’s preseason quick look at all 32 NCAA Division I conferences with the Big East, Big Sky, Big South and Big Ten. Plus: exhibition news.
The Morning Dish – Friday, November 3, 2017
Welcome back to the Morning Dish for the 2017-18 season. With college basketball opening day just a week away, we begin quick looks at each conference entering the season, in alphabetical order:
Twenty teams to keep an eye on in 2017-18
Presenting our annual list of what we simply call our list of teams to keep an eye on coming into the season. Some fall in the category of up-and-coming teams or sleeper picks. Some are powers. Some are just teams we enjoy watching. In most cases, we just think these are teams you’re going to be hearing from before the end of this year.
Dark day for college basketball also presents golden opportunity
As much of a dark of a day as Tuesday’s FBI indictments were was, it also was a great day presenting ample opportunity to make college basketball better, and to do better for our youth.
End of Great Alaska Shootout sad day for college hoops
A Thanksgiving college basketball tradition will come to a close after this season with the end of the Great Alaska Shootout. And the sport will lose a little bit of its flavor because of it.
