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Saturday, November 23, 2024
North and south, east and west, there were high-level games and fantastic finishes last night. We’ve still got more than a month yet until we get to March-including a Leap Year day-but it felt like a snapshot from the greatest basketball month of the year.
Maybe now we can all put Dayton’s one loss this season far in the rear-view mirror and start calling the Flyers for what they are: a legitimate top 20 team right now.
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.
Unwatchable? In a state of crisis? We challenge anyone who watched even some of the college basketball action on Saturday to come to those conclusions.
The end of both halves of Thursday night’s Michigan-Illinois game exposed once again just how ugly college basketball is when coaches cannot just let their players…play.
A young UCLA team continues to grow up, and the Bruins may be hitting a growth spurt at just the right time. Nearly written off just a couple weeks ago, UCLA has responded with three straight wins to jump back into the national conversation.
One can’t help but be sad for Virginia Commonwealth senior guard Briante Weber, the walking symbol of Havoc whose college career is over after he tore his ACL, MCL and meniscus Saturday in the Rams’ surprising 64-55 loss to city rival Richmond.
Of all the leagues in the college basketball landscape, few are as much fun to follow as the Missouri Valley Conference.
A busier Friday night than usual featured a head-scratcher in Miami. It was also a good night for the Pac-12 to close it out, while SEC teams got a couple of wins and SMU will get some much-needed help.
It bears repeating over and over: college basketball teams are not static entities over the entire season. They change and hopefully continue to grow and improve. What a team is in November is not what it will be in March.
