For the best-kept secret among conferences in college basketball this season, look no further than the Colonial Athletic Association, which also just so happens to be the league with the very best conference race this year.
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2014-15 Summit League Post-Mortem
When it comes to conference realignment, few have made wiser moves than when the Summit League added North Dakota State and South Dakota State, which the two schools proved again in 2014-15.
Scanning the Nation Notebook – February 20, 2015
Some brief college basketball thoughts as we near the end of February and now March and tournament time is just around the corner:
2013-14 Summit League Post-Mortem
The Summit is the league that refuses to go away. More than that, it actually seems to improve with all the changes, and this past season was a great example of that.
Horizon League Notebook – Scheduling Issues and Cupcakes
If you’re inferring some annoyance on the part of this writer with schools scheduling “cupcakes,” well, you’re inferring correctly. In addition to Detroit’s game this past week with Aquinas, Jimmy Collins’ vaunted UIC team played D-II Lewis College (a school I’d never heard of), and on its upcoming three-game home stand, Cleveland State will play both D-III La Roche College and D-III Notre Dame College (that’s not the Notre Dame we all know and love – the one CSU should be playing). If any of these schools find themselves on the wrong side of the bubble for an at-large NCAA bid (or for an NIT bid), they need look no further than their own schedules to learn why.
