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Thursday, November 21, 2024
One Big 12 team earned a signature win Tuesday night, the kind that may well be a golden ticket right into the NCAA Tournament in March. Another Big 12 team had a chance to do the exact same thing-and missed in excuciating fashion. Texas Tech and Kansas State are two of […]
Depending on how one wants to look at it, the Mid-American Conference in 2015-16 again fit into its seemingly perpetual niche as a good-but-not-great league, or is teetering on a breakthrough. Take your pick.
Like so many conference foes now, Indiana and Michigan are more acquaintances than consistently fierce rivals, the product of today’s bloated leagues where yearly home-and-homes are no longer a given. Still, their only meeting this year looked juicy on paper, matching one top 25 team and another not far from it.
Some college basketball thoughts in mid-January, as we start to settle into the grind of conference play for the next 1 1/2 months:
One of what may turn out to be the games of the year in the Missouri Valley took place last night. And now, with one its back pocket, Wichita State gets ready for what may be another one.
Weekly thoughts from following the goings around all of Division I college basketball.
Doubleheaders at Madison Square Garden are as much a part of the fabric of college basketball as the ball itself or Bill Raftery. There is nothing better, and only a few things that even compare.
The independents are dead. Long live the independents. NJIT’s 72-70 win at Michigan will go down as the biggest upset of this season and one of the biggest in a long time. This one is going to remembered for a long, long time.
With November turning to December, we’re on what is easily the quietest month of the college basketball season. There are good reasons for that, of course (final exams) and not so good ones (far, far too many guarantee games).
No more are the days when, in projecting the best teams in the Mid-American Conference, one could eliminate half the deck before even starting their breakdown.
