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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
When it came to trying to make the biggest splash, Wednesday night was a virtual game of ‘Can You Top This?’ across the college basketball landscape. Multiple teams came up with big wins. Really big wins. As in, the type of wins that some may point to in mid-March as […]
A great rivalry game has a thrilling ending, but the big story didn’t involve someone on either team. Plus a key season-ending injury and a coach ejected for no apparent reason on a light night.
Reflecting on the first (half) month of the college basketball season, we look back at some of the bests, worsts, achievements and trends from November:
It all comes down to one game, between two teams projected to go far and two teams who met earlier this year. That earlier meeting doesn’t really give us much to go on, though.
The NCAA Tournament continued to bless us with great games on Saturday night, one of which will be remembered more than the other for obvious reasons.
Officially, the NCAA Tournament begins Tuesday night with a pair of games, part of the “First Four” as it is known. Manhattan and Hampton square off first in a tussle between two 16 seeds, followed by Mississippi and BYU in a tilt of 11 seeds. Unofficially, these are still the games that a lot of brackets are going to let you slide on picking, in order to have a little more time to get your picks ready for your office pool or friendly competition with friends.
The NCAA Tournament has set its field, and some teams are happy and some are not. Plus a couple of teams changed coaches and one team that’s dancing will be without a key player unless they go far.
Texas Southern has done it again, this time with a buzzer-beater. Also, it wasn’t a very good day for the Pac-12, while a few favorites won comfortably on the day.
Tuesday night was ready to be pronounced as quite the dud, one of the more disappointing nights of the young season so far when it comes to anticipated games not being competitive.
Ah, it’s started already. We’re still a couple weeks away from final exams for most schools, a time when especially it seems like highly favored schools need to pay a little extra attention in games that they should win easily. But we saw several teams have more trouble than expected in games Tuesday night that all expected to be blowouts.
