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Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Of all the teams near the top of the rankings-scratch that, in the top 25 rankings at all-Cincinnati has been the mystery team of this season. And while the Bearcats will still be that for some time for many, they at least should have answered some questions Wednesday night.
The Great Alaska Shootout closed out a great run last night. Sadly, it did not get the final round of respects it deserved, but that didn’t stop it from delivering one final thriller for those who enjoyed so many over the years in this long-running event. The 40th and final […]
Last year was the end of a storied run in the Missouri Valley Conference, and the 2016-17 season was too, as Wichita State concluded a 68-year run in the league.
Even without Wichita State, the Missouri Valley Conference has plenty of schools in it that have proven rather recently very capable of being very, very good. The conference needs some of them to be again.
Ever so slowly, one of the Missouri Valley Conference’s historic programs is starting to work its way back into becoming a factor again after a long climb.
The end of the 2015-16 season marked the end of an era in the Missouri Valley Conference, and that’s saying something in a 109-year old conference where names like Oscar Robertson, Larry Bird, Wes Unseld and Ed McCauley grace the list of former stars.
The Missouri Valley Conference continues to claw out a spot just outside the top tier conferences in college basketball, and it did so again in 2014-15 with a noticeably improved product.
Gonzaga finally gets back to where they made it 16 years earlier, when they first rose to prominence. Plus a distinguished group of coaching winners, a few more coaching moves, and a big man plans to help a Big Ten team.
A bad day for No. 2 seeds tells us a lot about the winners, including one with a coach whose legend grows. Plus a near miss for one conference, other top seeds move on, and more coaching news emerges.
As a whole, this wasn’t the best year for the Missouri Valley Conference. But one team stood out in a big way nationally.
