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Thursday, November 21, 2024
On a busy day of conference tournament action, a regular season result is a big one for a preseason favorite. Plus a conference tournament roundup, more in the FBI investigation, and a coach is officially cleared of wrongdoing in a terrible accident.
A number of teams clinched hard-earned conference titles Thursday night, worthy achievements that deserve more notice than they sometimes receive. Also, the OVC race goes to the wire, and oh, the Pac-12…
This hasn’t been a season to remember for one of college basketball’s most consistent winners over the last few decades. Plus some Wildcats win at home, a tight race in the Midwest, a team out west remains winless in conference play, and suspensions are handed out from a brawl a day earlier.
After Saturday’s loss, what do we make of Kentucky at this point given that they have lost to their toughest opponents while beating up on worse teams? Plus lots of rivalry games were on tap, while one school couldn’t travel for their game and saw it canceled.
St. John’s took home the title in the Legends Classic in a great game, a win that is significant for the program and the coach in more ways than one. Ray Floriani has that and more notes from Brooklyn.
From before the season right to the bitter end, 2017-18 was a season to forget for the Pac-12. It can only get better from here for all of them, or so we think, and it gets really interesting trying to look ahead save for one idea: next season will be better.
With the ancient Great Alaska Shootout at its end with its 40th and final edition later this week, the Maui Invitational soon will move to a role in college basketball as not just the sport’s best in-season tournament, but also its oldest among eight-team tourneys.
Heading into the first full week of action, we had no major surprises, but a few close calls on Sunday that might not portend the best of things for a few teams.
It was a decidedly different year in the Pac-12 from the prior one, but there were some good highlights in the month of March and next season could see a decidedly different look to the standings.
It is redemption time for the SEC after a magical night continues a great NCAA Tournament run for the conference. Plus several coaching moves and early entrant decisions take up the news on the day.
