This year’s NCAA Tournament has not brought us many true upsets, but it will bring us a Sweet 16 full of history, though.
Author: Adam Glatczak
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 22, 2015
When it comes to the lists of the very best teams in March, the current list of usual suspects starts with names like Arizona, Duke, Kentucky, Michigan State. It’s high time another school was added to that elite hierarchy in the sport.
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 20, 2015
As far as drama goes, Thursday at the NCAA Tournament was as about as good as it can get. But there’s also a good chance that such games aren’t going anywhere and are going to be the norm this year. And maybe for the foreseeable future.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 19, 2015
Calm in the face of daunting situations. Both Robert Morris and Dayton had it Wednesday night, and as a result, both are moving on in the NCAA Tournament.
Crisis? Tuesday’s First Four showed college hoops is far from it
The opening games of the NCAA Tournament showed yet again that college basketball is not a sport in crisis, just one with some rough edges that can be softened.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The NCAA Tournament opened last night with its First Four games. For entertainment value, the night could not have gone much better.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Officially, the NCAA Tournament begins Tuesday night with a pair of games, part of the “First Four” as it is known. Manhattan and Hampton square off first in a tussle between two 16 seeds, followed by Mississippi and BYU in a tilt of 11 seeds. Unofficially, these are still the games that a lot of brackets are going to let you slide on picking, in order to have a little more time to get your picks ready for your office pool or friendly competition with friends.
Bracket impressions: Committee missed it with Indiana, Texas, UCLA
If there was ever an advertisement for the NCAA Tournament going back to 64, the magic number for the tourney at its peak and the one that makes the most sense, this season is it.
Selection Sunday morning: One projection of NCAA Tournament field
With so many years of “bracketology” and the resulting better understandings of the NCAA Tournament selection process that has come from it, there are many years where predicting the teams in the field is not that much of a mystery, sometimes almost easy even. This year is not one of those years.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 15, 2015
Unwatchable? In a state of crisis? We challenge anyone who watched even some of the college basketball action on Saturday to come to those conclusions.
