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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
As little order as there has been in college basketball this year, an NCAA Tournament Elite Eight that so far includes a 3 seed, two 9 seeds and an 11 seems strangely appropriate. A bizarre season and bizarre NCAA tourney became only moreso Thursday, as lower seeds won three of […]
Jacksonville State played a quarterfinal game against North Texas in the College Basketball Invitational Wednesday night, but it could be easily forgiven if the Gamecocks’ minds were on other things this week. JSU’s campus in Alabama was hit hard by an EF-3 tornado Monday night, leaving widespread damage throughout. Among […]
Two teams have punched their tickets to New York in contrasting fashion, with two more to come. Plus a big man is gone from Austin as expected, a Cyclone will test the waters, and a Tiger could return a little ways into next season.
With the NCAA Tournament down to 16 teams now and the number of teams still in their seasons dwindling, coaching news continues to take precedence in the sport’s silly season. Monday included hirings and rumors of near hirings, in many cases proceeding now after the conclusion of teams’ seasons made […]
Sunday completed a first NCAA Tournament weekend that had plenty of history made, and it was as wild as we have come to expect from what has transpired thus far this season. Also, a big man is not conceding that his college career is over just yet.
As the 2018 NCAA Tournament field starts to whittle down (we’ve eliminated 44 teams already-incredible), easily the two best stories of the tournament’s first week have been identified with a pair of underdogs who are precisely what makes this event what it is.
History of the kind some of us never imagined occurring happened on Friday night. It was shocking in so many ways. Plus injury questions abound heading into the next round, while the next head coach at one school may have more headaches from the outset.
After a distinctly dull first round a year ago, it can be argued-quite easily, in fact-that the first round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament already has delivered more. And college hoops fans can be most thankful for it.
Short bench, poor shooting, young, Syracuse still found a way to come back late to defeat Arizona State in an NCAA Tournament play-in game, another example of a good coaching job by Jim Boeheim this year.
Being a small, relatively unknown, Franciscan Catholic school is plenty enough to appeal to the average, underdog-loving fan of the NCAA Tournament, but St. Bonaventure provided all the more reason to for fans to take notice with its play Tuesday night.
