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Sunday, December 22, 2024
Robert Morris is the type of small eastern private school that fits in so perfectly in the college basketball landscape. Tuesday night, though, the Colonials may as well have been Kentucky, for the role of villain they took on in the Northeast Conference championship game.
On the scale of chic topics in basketball in general, free throws is near the bottom. But like special teams in the NFL playoffs, you better believe free throws will be important this month.
While hustle is always appreciated and encouraged in basketball, increasingly there are times it gets out of control and safety becomes an issue.
It was a great night for a few players in the Ivy League while the race evened up. Plus the Horizon League has a regular season champion, the Gators have some personnel questions, and the Miners will be short a coach on what will be a very busy day of action.
We should know who the Pac-12 Coach of the Year will be after Sunday. Plus a team can’t go to their locker room, an expected showdown may have lost its luster, and a Cardinal is long gone with the regular season almost over.
A MAAC rivalry continues, with the first place team holding serve in a close one. Plus some drama in the Ivy League, a showdown in the Horizon League and a couple of players have family members dealing with health matters.
Milwaukee has faced obstacles since well before the start of this season, but the Panthers continue to press on and have become a thorn in the side of their Horizon League brethren this year with performances like Tuesday’s against Oakland.
Non-conference play is pretty much in the books. In light of that, how do the conferences stack up based on what we’ve seen over the past couple of months? We take a look here.
More conference quick looks as we near the start of the college basketball season…
Wisconsin-Green Bay has waited a long time to get back to the level of its NCAA Division I glory years of the 1990’s, but the Phoenix did so in a big way in 2013-14.
