Conference play took over for the first Saturday of 2020, and along the way road teams had a fair amount of success. We take a look at notes from many of the day’s games as it was a busy day of action.
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The Morning Dish – Saturday, January 4, 2020
Road wins were hard to come by in the Big Ten until Friday night, when it suddenly became a good night to be a road team, especially one surging team in particular. Plus two teams go in different directions in the Big East, a stunning rally ends with a buzzer-beater in the MAAC, and better news out of Miami concerning a coach.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 3, 2020
It was the second day of the new year, but also still bowl season, and a couple games went almost as long as a college football contest as Purdue and Minnesota went double overtime and UMKC and Seattle went even longer.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 2, 2020
San Diego State remained undefeated and continued one of the season’s best early stories, gritting out a win over recent nemesis Fresno State on New Year’s Day. The Mountain West, American and Southern Conference were among the few busy to start 2020.
Essay: A night of high school hoops
The sixth annual Jack Stone Shootout was held at St. Mary High School and is becoming a holiday tradition in northern New Jersey. Three games were on tap, including one for the championship on one late December day.
The Morning Dish – January 1, 2020
2019 ended with a reminder of how conference play is different, especially having to go on the road. Plus a shocker in Ames, a near-shocker in the Big East, and a mix of conference and non-conference games closed out the year.
Chaos has been fun but scoring, standing around areas of concern for college basketball
The first two months of the college hoops season have been fun for the upsets, yet not all is well. Scoring is going down again and there are too many players standing around on offense.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 31, 2019
In a Big East opener, a team that was expected to be pretty good was just that down the stretch to get a key road win. Plus a tough team to figure out down south, road teams are winning early in one conference, and a few other notable results include a milestone win.
The Morning Dish – Monday, December 30, 2019
West Virginia is having the kind of year many expect of Bob Huggins’ teams, and they got the kind of win most figured they would get at some point last year but never did. Plus the Flames go down for the first time, the Jayhawks get a win and then a scare, and a Spartan misses a game due to injury.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 29, 2019
We conclude a league-by-league look at the biggest surprises of the season’s first two months, plus a recap of Saturday’s action including Kentucky outlasting Louisville, Cal State Fullerton stuns UCLA and UC Riverside’s improbable comeback.
