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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Saturday’s college basketball day had all kind of major storylines featuring many of the sport’s biggest name schools. Would like to take a moment, though, to recognize a league at the other end of the spectrum, maybe as far from the biggies as can be in NCAA Division I.
“Anybody can beat anybody” is a cliché. It’s also being proven on a regular basis early in this college basketball season. The upsets keep coming this year, and if there’s one thing we’re learning early this college basketball season, it is that you cannot take anyone lightly. That seems to go especially for NCAA Division I newcomers and transitional members.
The weekend has featured several instances of something we don’t see often: BCS conference (or Group of Five, or whatever term you want to use) teams taking to the road against good non-BCS teams.
Unexpectedly, Stephen F. Austin had a banner year and made national headlines with its play, providing a number of highlights for the Southland Conference in 2013-14.
