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Wednesday, December 25, 2024
After higher seeds routinely won the first couple of days, the Missouri Valley Conference highlighted a day where several lower seeds won. Plus one more regular season title has been clinched, a blueblood disagrees with some allegations levied against them, and the show will go on for one school next week.
Wofford is going to be a much-discussed team between now and March, but a look at the entire resume-not just Quadrant 1-should say surefire NCAA tourney team. The Terriers also won a dandy in overtime Thursday night at East Tennessee State. Plus: buzzer beaters galore.
Early wins at Notre Dame and Texas brought attention to and raised expectations for Radford this season, but also served as reminders of what they have to do to repeat as Big South champions and get back to the NCAA Tournament.
The defending Big South champions are grabbing the spotlight at a different time of the year than might usually happen, and doing so with defense. Plus Big Ten play gets underway with road wins, while a Big Ten team playing out of conference gets another double-double from its big man.
Radford has made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009, after which there was a tough time. It took a lot of close games for the current group to grow into a winner, to the point where they are very much at home in such games.
