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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Even before Mark Gottfried said it on Friday, you could see it: North Carolina State is now more ready to win the games it needs to. They weren’t ready early in the season, when they had some opportunities, but they showed this weekend at the ACC Tournament that they are in a better place now and at a good time.
For two weeks, nearly every team in Division I will get a chance to earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The road to the Big Dance starts with 30 conference tournaments — the Ivy League gives its auto bid to the regular-season champ. We preview each conference tournament as […]
Before Friday’s Big East Tournament semifinal games, a lot of talk centered on the matchup a night earlier between Notre Dame and South Florida, a game played at a very deliberate pace. What impact might that have on the Irish’s matchup with Louisville?
A detailed look at Syracuse’s win over Connecticut highlights a look back at Thursday’s Big East Tournament action, with a few other notes added.
Let’s give Steve Donahue credit for what he did get out of this young Boston College team. The youth of this team has been well-chronicled. The big question now that the season is over is just what there is to build on for next season.
A look back at the first round of the ACC Tournament, where there was success among first-year head coaches, Maryland had a couple of bright spots in its win, NCAA implications in an upcoming game, and Virginia Tech battling through another close game.
Although it wasn’t quite as bad as last season, this was hardly one for the books for Wake Forest. After an 82-60 blowout loss against Maryland on Thursday, the Demon Deacons finished 13-18 overall. That doesn’t seem so bad, and a few teams had worse records, but look deeper and you see a team that, quite simply, was not good.
Ron Hunter is a terrific addition to the Colonial Athletic Association coaching ranks. That could have been said before the season given his track record and the impression he made on Media Day in October, but after the CAA Tournament it bears repeating because it was so obvious.
Old Dominion’s Kent Bazemore is someone young basketball players could stand to learn from. It’s been enjoyable to watch him go from a player who needed to redshirt as a freshman to one of the CAA’s best players.
In theory, the next six days should be quite stressful for Drexel and head coach Bruiser Flint. As the regular season champions of the CAA, they are guaranteed a bid to the NIT, but naturally hope the NCAA Tournament comes calling. Flint doesn’t seem stressed at all about it, however, and his experience is a key factor in that.
