Presenting our annual list of what we simply call our list of teams to keep an eye on coming into the season. Some fall in the category of up-and-coming teams or sleeper picks. Some are powers. Some are just teams we enjoy watching. In most cases, we just think these are teams you’re going to be hearing from before the end of this year.
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2016-17 American Athletic Conference Post-Mortem
As Wichita State joins the American Athletic Conference, we are seeing which programs are consistently carrying the flag early on, and a couple of surprising programs that are not.
The Morning Dish – Saturday, March 11, 2017
Friday brought us a day full of drama and decisiveness, great games and important results all the way around. We also saw one team continue to remind us that they can make a big run later this month.
Scanning the Nation January 24, 2017: On Wake Forest, Tulsa, Bucknell and more
Notes from around college basketball as we are in the late stages of January and endless bubble talk is just around the corner:
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 29, 2016
Remember when Oregon was a heavy favorite in the Pac-12 and a Final Four favorite heading into this season?
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 27, 2016
Fairly hidden from the national conscious in the Mountain Time Zone, Utah is hardly the first place most think of as a hotbed for college basketball. Tobacco Road it is not-in so many ways-but when it comes to consistent quality among its NCAA Division I programs, few can match The […]
The Morning Dish – Thursday, November 24, 2016
Wishing a blessed and Happy Thanksgiving to all today. A pair of top 10 ACC teams faced similar opponents on Wednesday, with dramatically different-but ultimately successful-results.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Now the season has arrived. The 2016-17 college basketball season has its first real splash moment of the season in its first signature upset of the year.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 6, 2016
We continue our preseason quick glance at the conferences by checking in with the MAC, MEAC, MVC and Mountain West.
2015-16 American Athletic Conference Post-Mortem
The American did well to place teams in the NCAA Tournament in 2015-16, but appears to be a conference still seeking a clear identity and a signature program.