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Sunday, December 22, 2024
The last postseason tournament standing is now the NCAA, as the CBI champion has been crowned with a big jump from the prior year. Plus a bug is going around one Final Four team, more coaching developments, and could some testimony not come out after all?
As the Final Four beckons, in this podcast we focus on coaching changes of note, the three tournaments besides the NCAA Tournament, and then look ahead to Saturday night’s national semifinals.
DePaul and South Florida played a second straight terrific game in the final series of the College Basketball Invitational. Also, coaching vacancies filled at Fairfield and William & Mary and early NBA entries.
After a superb career, Rick Byrd is off to a well-earned retirement. The Belmont coach will be missed, and should go down as one of the all-time greats.
A special year for Boulevard rivals in Nashville is still going for Lipscomb, which in dramatic fashion clinched its first-ever trip to New York City for the NIT semifinals..
Monday night saw still more coaching changes due to firings, as well as a position still on hold at Nebraska. Also, Colorado advances in the NIT and Coastal Carolina drills West Virginia in CBI.
Arizona State and St. John’s hardly put on a basketball clinic Wednesday night, but the Sun Devils advanced and now try to be the next team to make an NCAA Tournament run from the First Four. Plus, NIT, CIT and CBI recaps, including Brown continuing a historic season.
Tuesday saw the end of the tenures of a pair of Philadelphia basketball institutions. One was known to be imminent; the other was not. Also, Belmont & Fairleigh Dickinson get their first NCAA tourney wins, and NIT, CBI and CIT recaps.
The day after Selection Sunday was conspicuously light on news this year. It did include a few coaching changes, plus the first Division I postseason tournament tipping off with NJIT trying for another run in the College Insider tourney.
The field of 68 is set at last, after much discussion about the bubble, and there is much to think about from top seeds on to who didn’t make it. Plus a few last championship games, some injury updates, and other postseason tournaments announce their fields as well.
