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Saturday, January 11, 2025
A quick look at key results and/or top stories from the night before, as well as a look ahead to key games during the season, to lead a reader into the new day
Only one game is left in what has been a wild season, which has us wondering if there is just a little more of that left. Plus a Wildcat continues to rack up the big honors, a Bearcat may be leaving early, and another conference maneuver may not be happening for now.
Saturday night’s NCAA Tournament national semifinals revealed the two teams that will be playing for the national title Monday night, but it also told us something else: Villanova is the best team of this college basketball season.
Two more tournaments are in the books, leaving just one standing. Plus another national award, more coaching developments and a couple of players are leaving school to turn pro on the eve of the national semifinals.
After another impressive performance in the final game of the 2018 National Invitation Tournament, the springboard has officially been set for Penn State next season.
The one postseason tournament that uses a series is once again going to a deciding game. Plus another tournament’s final is set, future ACC players are in the spotlight in a big high school game, and unsurprising NBA Draft early entrants announce their plans.
The NIT championship game matchup is set, and the semifinals could hardly have been more different. Plus coaching changes dominate the other news, including who is staying, and another star-studded field will be in Maui in another year.
It took less than eight minutes for San Francisco to deliver a scorching shooting display that put the Dons in complete control of the first game of this year’s College Basketball Invitational championship series. USF turned the tables on previously red-hot North Texas, getting off to an almost unconscious start […]
After so many doubts, Kansas is in the Final Four in this wild college basketball season. Plus the field is set with a recent repeat team, and a long-time coach may end up at his alma mater decades after he played there.
In so many ways, Loyola Chicago has been an incredible story this postseason, and the Ramblers’ run will continue improbably in the Final Four.
Friday night couldn’t match Thursday in terms of surprises, but certainly gave us good games with high seeds advancing. Plus a long-time coach is out in Philadelphia, another one is not going anywhere in the CAA, and transfer news that hurts a rebuilding effort.
