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Sunday, December 22, 2024
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.
As the regular season starts drawing to a close, a few more regular season titles are decided or almost decided. Plus the story in Omaha continues to develop and a Volunteer is likely to miss another game.
Oakland makes the Horizon League race a little more interesting as it winds down. Also, for the second straight Friday, it was a good night to be a road team.
Conference play beckons and has even started in a number of conferences. With that, we take a look at how they shape up based on the non-conference performances.
Chances are, you will want to get a program more than ever with the many transfers. Plus more conference preview notes and exhibition games.
For a year at least, the Horizon League harkened back to some glory years, with a collection of individual talent the conference hasn’t seen in perhaps a long time.
No league has sent the college basketball coaching carousel spinning more in the last month than the Horizon League, which is tied with the West Coast Conference for most coaching changes this offseason (so far) with four each.
It’s been a combined 30 years since Wisconsin-Green Bay and Fairleigh Dickinson have made the NCAA Tournament. For that reason and many others, both will be very welcome additions to this year’s NCAA tourney field.
Tthe unabashed chaos of the conference tournaments this year may have reached a climax Monday night, with a pair of teams losing-and maybe even three-who will now be talked about at length for the next week. Then again, the night was pretty much par for the course for this season, so we shouldn’t be surprised in the least if/when it continues.
Three more bids go out, with a dramatic ending and one that could have led to an odd outcome. Plus a surprise in one semifinal win, and a few more regular season finales were mixed in with the tournaments.
