It’s that time of year again, college basketball’s silly season with coaches seemingly coming and going left and right, stacking up at traffic lights while waiting for each other to proceed to their next job.
Author: Adam Glatczak
2017 NCAA Tournament first week review: unpredictability light so far
The first rounds of the 2017 NCAA Tournament weren’t a bad six days. But competitive games are basically a minimum standard in the tourney. We crave unpredictability, yet this year’s tourney is lacking it.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 21, 2017
You can collect the votes right now, and probably don’t even need to count them, the choice is so obvious. In a stunning upset, the winner for the breakout performance by a conference (non-NCAA Tournament edition) goes to the Western Athletic Conference.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 19, 2017
Through five days, the 2017 NCAA tourney has become marked by its lack of surprises, and Saturday was no different, regardless of what seeds say.
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 17, 2017
With all respect to the four teams eliminated in play-in games, Thursday always marks the start of the NCAA Tournament as most know it. As far as opening days go, it was somewhere in the middle.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 16, 2017
The postseason is just a couple days old, and already it’s been one wild ride for the Pac-12.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Much the same as the NFL season opening on a Thursday night or Major League Baseball beginning on a Sunday night, the NCAA Tournament beginning with play-in games on a Tuesday night-starting with two 16 seeds against each other-will never feel right. That said, as long as the NCAA continues playing its First Four, then Tuesday night was a pretty good start for a tourney.
The Morning Dish – Tueday, March 14, 2017
With a light day, as well as a relative lack of questions about this year’s bracket, it allowed some time to let this year’s NCAA Tournament bracket marinate a bit. And here’s a thought: this year’s tourney has a lot of really good first round matchups.
Bracket impressions: Little changes with selection committee fixations
As a whole, this year’s selections for the 2017 NCAA Tournament were not filled with a ton of injustices in selection. Before handing out bouquets, though, it must be noted: that does not mean they were without significant errors.
Selection Sunday morning 2017: One projection of the NCAA Tournament field
On the morning of Selection Sunday, here is our one-time-only projection of the NCAA Tournament field, including who will be in, who won’t-and who should be and shouldn’t be.
