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Thursday, November 21, 2024
The Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament opened Thursday in Brooklyn, N.Y., under the guise of another money grab, er, “expanding its ‘brand.’” And while the meat of the event is still to come starting today, the early rounds still featured teams presumably playing for their NCAA Tournament lives. And all of them have lost already.
Another instant classic between two teams that nowadays always seem to give us one. Plus a bigger comeback out west, a fan has something to say to a coach, and many key games in conference races all over.
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.
Virginia put on another of its performances that is pure Virginia. Kansas put on another of its performances that is pure Kansas. Two of college basketball’s signature programs right now were in vintage form Monday night in winning what were easily the two marquee games of the evening, even if […]
Notes from around college basketball as we are in the late stages of January and endless bubble talk is just around the corner:
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has furnished more than its share of scoring machines in the league’s 36-year history, and Fairfield’s Curtis Cobb put his name among some heady company Thursday night.
Road teams were the story of the night in college basketball on Wednesday. Now there’s something you don’t say often in this sport at the end of November.
In its 34th year, the venerable Maui Invitational is college basketball’s premier in-season tournament, with its three days rightfully earning a reputation as some of the most anticipated of all of the non-conference season.
Though the Patriot League slipped a bit in 2015-16, it was still as competitive as ever. The league tournament then had quite a bit of history made to cap it all off.
We’re on the doorstep of March now, so there isn’t much that has been left uncovered in a season, but the question must be asked: is there a better secret in college basketball this year than Fresno State?
