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Saturday, November 23, 2024
Much the same as the NFL season opening on a Thursday night or Major League Baseball beginning on a Sunday night, the NCAA Tournament beginning with play-in games on a Tuesday night-starting with two 16 seeds against each other-will never feel right. That said, as long as the NCAA continues playing its First Four, then Tuesday night was a pretty good start for a tourney.
In Part 2 of our podcast, we talk about the ACC Tournament and others that have found new homes in light of comments made by a prominent coach that got quite a reaction, then we talk about the NCAA Tournament bubble as that subject begins to dominate conversation for a couple of more days.
Wake Forest and Pittsburgh advanced in the ACC Tournament’s opening round, and did so in contrasting games.
In a tumultuous few years for the Horizon League, Northern Kentucky has come along at just the right time to provide a bright spot.
As conference tournaments beckon, we get ready for lots of lobbying for teams’ at-large candidacy to the NCAA Tournament and highlight one team that will be much-talked about. Plus a shocker in Orlando and an important result in the Big Ten lead the way.
We touch on Player of the Year candidates, the wild ACC featuring a still-slumping Virginia team and a really hard-luck Clemson team, an SEC program where the bottom is falling out, the final weekend in the CAA and much more.
Poor Clemson. The Tigers’ repeated close calls in the Atlantic Coast Conference this year have almost become a cruel joke. Even when it looks like they can’t lose, they still do.
In our latest podcast, we start with coaching news in the ACC, then go to a few recent games. A surging Big East team and an amazing rally in the Big 12 lead the discussion after that.
The road to the Big 12 regular season title goes through Kansas. Still. Again.
Notes from around the country as we close out January and get ready to hit the stretch run of the season and the back half of conference play…
