It’s been an excellent 41st year for the venerable Sun Belt Conference, and one that is showing no signs of dampening as the regular season winds down and conference tournament time approaches.
Author: Adam Glatczak
The Morning Dish – Sunday, February 19, 2017
With teams fighting for regular season titles and positioning themselves for conference tournaments, yesterday might’ve been Statement Saturday across the country.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 17, 2017
After unexpectedly making as much news as just about any team in the country a year ago, Monmouth has been conspicuously quiet on the national scene this year. But don’t be fooled.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 16, 2017
As we hit the second half of February, the college basketball season is officially on its stretch run. With that, talk about “bubble” teams will dominate the sport for the next month. When one is on the topic of teams on the fence, they had best make time for Providence. […]
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Virginia Tech had just about every excuse imaginable to lose a game Tuesday night against one of the ACC’s lowest-rated teams. That the Hokies didn’t is almost certainly the sign of a program ready to take the step of making its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 10 years.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 14, 2017
The ACC has unquestionably supplanted the Big 12 as the toughest league in college basketball this season, but while the two conferences continue to share billing on ESPN’s Big Monday package, the former continues to serve as a warm-up to the latter considering the regularly memorable games the Big 12 provides on this night.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, February 12, 2017
After the NCAA men’s basketball committee’s first in-season release of the top seeds in advance of the tourney, we have to wonder something: Was the NCAA’s attempt to create in-season “buzz” with a college football-inspired in-season ranking of a portion of the field a flop?
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 10, 2017
There was a huge conference game played in North Carolina Thursday night, one hyped by big names beforehand. The game was part of a series that has regularly provided drama of late, and once again delivered with spades. Of course we’re talking about the big one in the Big South played Thursday between UNC Asheville and Winthrop,
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 9, 2017
Seton Hall started off Wednesday making news for reasons any school would rather not, and just over midway through the first half of its game against Providence on Wednesday, the news wasn’t looking very good, either.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 8, 2017
A few days after Eastern Washington and Portland State played a three-overtime game that ended with two players scoring 45 points each and EWU finally winning 130-124, Alabama and South Carolina did their best to wrestle the mantle away for wildest game of the season. On Tuesday, the Crimson Tide […]