Defense wins championships and yadda yadda, but Saturday at the NCAA Tournament was a day when offenses were on full display and took center stage in every game.
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The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 17, 2016
Two days into the 2015 NCAA Tournament have felt kind of like trying to start up the family roadster after she’s been sitting idle in the garage for a couple years. It’s taking a little time to get the engine warmed up, but slowly it’s getting back up to speed.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The NCAA Tournament’s First Four started the tourney with a whimper on Tuesday, and it ended Tuesday night with a whimper as well.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 15, 2016
It turns out people do appreciate the National Invitation Tournament after all, far more than universally assumed. All it took was a little postseason saturation-the same thing that college football somehow seems immune to.
The Morning Dish – Monday, March 14, 2016
The new-look Selection Show wasn’t exactly a hit with viewers on top of the selections themselves. Plus three other tournament fields come out, one conference commissioner isn’t happy, and coaching changes continue.
2015 NCAA Tournament Final Review: A solid tourney by historical standards
Collectively, the 2015 NCAA Tournament was a roller coaster. There was the high of the first few days before the tourney slipped into mediocrity in its middle rounds, only to rise high again for a big finish at the end, worthy of all the history of such a splendid event.
The Morning Dish – Friday, April 3, 2015
Brad Stevens and Shaka Smart once seemed they might be long-tenured at their schools when both were consistently spurning numerous job offers despite repeated opportunities to move on to bigger (paying) things. A couple years later, though, both are gone now to new challenges.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, April 2, 2015
To some, Liberty is a sleeping giant program that been far more asleep than a giant since joining D-I almost 30 years ago. The school’s coaching history, though, has been…interesting? Quirky? Bizarre? Take your pick.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, April 1, 2015
We’re all biding our time until the Final Four games on Saturday, but all news is not just coaching changes and players coming and going (mostly going) as college basketball’s other tournaments are also wrapping up this week.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 31, 2015
The thinking seems to be that the main motivation for St. John’s to be ready to hire Chris Mullin is that the school wants to follow the Fred Hoiberg model of hiring an alumnus who was a former NBA front office before making a splash as a college coach, but the Red Storm will get far more with Mullin.
