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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Good Tuesday morning. As the regular season is now just three days away, we continue Hoopville’s preseason rundown of all 32 NCAA Division I conferences: The Northeast Conference in recent years is annually one of the most balanced leagues in the country. This year there is a clear favorite, though, […]
The ACC was highly competitive, yet had a familiar look at the top, and then it turned on the jets with a big NCAA Tournament.
With the 2015-16 season now complete, attention turns to news about college basketball players making decisions on entering the NBA Draft-some going, some thinking of going, some staying.
It all comes down to one game, and the participants look very deserving. Plus a former All-American returns to his old state, a legend has a medical procedure, and more to the draft.
It’s regular for defending national champions to not go out easily in the NCAA Tournament, and one would expect that to be doubly true when that defending champion is Duke.
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.
The beauty of the NCAA Tournament is not just the upsets, the near-upsets and the close games. Of course, they certainly are a big part of it, and we saw at least two of those categories tapped in games Thursday such as those between Yale and Baylor, Arkansas-Little Rock and […]
The ACC Tournament was surprising in the lack of surprises, as only one of the 13 games saw the lower seed win.
The ACC Tournament is about to start, and there’s a good deal of balance, meaning the champion will likely have run a gauntlet by the time it’s over.
The first two NCAA Tournament bids went out on Saturday, and you can’t blame either coach if they got a little emotional. Plus a full day of tournament action, a coach gets the dreaded “vote of confidence”, and winning was especially hard for one team this year.
