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Thursday, December 26, 2024
The Big East is getting by just fine. Here is how good the Big East has been so far this year: nine of its 10 teams are so far undefeated. Villanova is 5-0. So are Providence and Creighton. Xavier and Seton Hall are 4-0. Georgetown, St. John’s and Butler are 3-0. Shoot, even DePaul is 2-0.
Today’s the day we’ve been waiting for, the college basketball season opener. A few things we’re looking to see this weekend, and really in the first month of the season, as well as a preview of some of the top games tonight.
The West Coast Conference had a nice year in 2013-14, to be sure. For a time, though, it looked like it would be even more than that.
Baylor beat an improved team to advance to the NIT title game with a few players coming up big. They will take on Iowa on Thursday night.
Saturday wasn’t just about football conference championships. It had North Carolina and Kentucky matching up on the hardwood in a game that lived up to its billing, and a few more teams had good wins on Saturday as well.
Among other recent stories about coaching changes and NBA announcements, the Hurricanes hired a new coach in George Mason’s Jim Larranaga. The weather might be nice, but the climate at Miami might have Larranaga sweating pretty soon.
After Connecticut’s defensive battle for the championship, there’s plenty of talk disparaging the value of an NCAA Tournament title. That’s a bunch of baloney and discredits one of the toughest post-season formats of any sport at any level.
Despite a great season in which four Mountain West teams received NCAA Tournament bids, none of them has a good draw to make a deep run.
Despite strong seasons, the selection committee didn’t reward the Atlantic 10 and Mountain West conferences with many good seeds.
If you’re looking for a couple of dark horse Final Four contenders, head west to Utah, home of some dangerous Aggies and Cougars.
