Among all the oddities of this college basketball season, when all is said and done there will be few harder to explain than this: a game between Illinois and Rutgers may go down as one of the best and most entertaining games of the entire year.
Tag: Illinois
The Morning Dish – Monday, January 11, 2016
The coaching carousel gets started at a place with some high expectations not being met. Plus surprises in the ACC and Big Ten, another team remains undefeated, and a Wildcat sidelined.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 24, 2015
Oklahoma is finding a nice home away from home in Hawaii. And Hawaii should be quickly becoming a favorite of TV networks for furnishing exciting games at home on the island.
Scanning the nation: the best from November in college basketball
Reflecting on the first (half) month of the college basketball season, we look back at some of the bests, worsts, achievements and trends from November:
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 1, 2015
The easy thing to do after the College of Charleston’s resounding win over LSU Monday night would be to talk about all that’s wrong with the Tigers. With that in mind, we’ll focus first on just what the Cougars are doing right.
2014-15 Big Ten Post-Mortem
Seldom does a team enter a season with high expectations and then fulfill predictions of greatness in almost every way possible the way Wisconsin did this year.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 5, 2015
We’re just getting started on March, prime time for the college basketball season, but on Wednesday we couldn’t help but look back for a day, as the day marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Hank Gathers,
The Morning Dish – Saturday, February 21, 2015
Will the picture in the SEC after Kentucky get any clearer on a busy day ahead? Plus a conference title nears, Ivy League rivals maintain, and one player is ready to head to his third school in his college career.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 13, 2015
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.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, February 1, 2015
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.
