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Thursday, November 28, 2024
A college basketball season like 2015-16 deserved better than the past few rounds of the NCAA Tournament had provided, and Monday night a thoroughly enjoyable year received a fitting sendoff with one of the great Final Four championship games in the sport’s history.
Villanova’s national championship may be a game-changer, although that won’t be apparent right away.
Ted joins us minutes after the thrilling national championship game to wrap it all up with some final thoughts.
It all comes down to one game, and the participants look very deserving. Plus a former All-American returns to his old state, a legend has a medical procedure, and more to the draft.
In so many ways, the NCAA Tournament has consistently, without fail delivered one quality game after another for literally decades, and nowhere has that consistency been more able to be counted on than in the Final Four. All of which makes Saturday’s results more surprising, yet perhaps also indicative of the way this year’s tourney has gone.
The one tournament that uses a series to determine its champion has a dramatic final. Plus coaching moves lead the way, and a Tiger will try out the NBA Draft but could return.
In this edition, we look at all the news outside of basketball games going on this week, then the last three games in the NCAA Tournament.
Years from now, perhaps the best compliment one will be able to give one of the most talented senior classes in the history of George Washington basketball is that not only did they go out as champions, but they also went out playing their very best.
The college basketball season is a journey in every way, and few demonstrated that better this year than Old Dominion. The Monarchs’ 2014-15 campaign was truly a long and eventful one, full of ups and downs, successes and disappointments. It may not have always lived up to expectations on the outside, but there were plenty of reasons for that. Still, it would be hard to argue that ODU didn’t make the best of it.
The championship game for the 79th annual National Invitation Tournament is set, and it’s a worthy one with two very good teams. How good? Put it this way: if Oklahoma and Syracuse end up playing in the NCAA Tournament final on Monday, their combined win total will be less than that of the two playing in the NIT title game.
