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Sunday, December 22, 2024
On a day where tournament action slowed temporarily, a game outside of tournaments was as good as advertised featuring a young but very talented team. Plus the other results of the day include a couple of monster individual efforts and a big road win for an Ivy League team.
Don’t look now, but Monday night might have some evidence that the Blue Demons are about to be relevant again. Plus a big win out west and a transfer will have to sit the year, which isn’t sitting well with a person close to him.
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?
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.
Two teams entered the day undefeated and remain that way, and both are led by great coaches and there is some irony in who they are. Plus a busy day for the Big Ten, another conference seems tough to figure out right now, and an important big man is done for the year.
The NCAA’s changes to allow time in June for players to be evaluated with their school teams was well-intentioned, but reality is a little more complicated. Plus a light night of game action, a heart procedure appears to have gone well, and a longer deal for a coach in North Carolina.
It’s an unfortunate fact of the current college hoops climate that schools like Northeastern taking on an Alabama are facing a must-win in mid-November, but the Huskies capitalized big.
