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.
The Morning Dish
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
The Morning Dish – Monday, February 20, 2017
The Bison continue their consistent winning in one of the academic leagues. Plus a team out west finally gets a conference win, big games in the Big Ten, key injuries, and a coach sounds off on matters with other coaches.
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 – Saturday, February 18, 2017
Oakland makes the Horizon League race a little more interesting as it winds down. Also, for the second straight Friday, it was a good night to be a road team.
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 – Monday, February 13, 2017
One of the last games of the weekend ends in dramatic fashion and might lift a long-suffering program back into the NCAA Tournament. Plus another team picks up a big win, a rebuilding team sees a career end early, and some other off-court news that thankfully did not end up worse.
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?
