On a day where five automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament went out, there was bigger news that was not as positive. Plus, yes, five bids did go out, another championship matchup is all set, and a few more tournaments get underway.
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The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 18, 2020
One Big East team that had some non-conference success has continued to find ways to lose in Big East play, and did so again on Monday night. Plus a couple of different TV game results, two teams have at it when the game ends, and another conference comes out in support of something with transfers.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Duke is nobody’s underdog in college basketball. And yet, when the Blue Devils have played Miami (Fla.) of late, they’ve come out on the losing end more than not, to the point where when they beat the Hurricanes it’s almost a-gasp-upset?
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Almost as infuriating on Monday as a deserving championship contender being kept from a real shot at a national title solely because of collusion is how so many networks covering college basketball continue to run away from a prime opportunity to do something different on that night.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 14, 2017
The ACC has unquestionably supplanted the Big 12 as the toughest league in college basketball this season, but while the two conferences continue to share billing on ESPN’s Big Monday package, the former continues to serve as a warm-up to the latter considering the regularly memorable games the Big 12 provides on this night.
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 – Tuesday, January 10, 2017
While college football again staged its light beer version of a national title game on Monday-and used an interminably long amount of time and an equally way-too-long list of cable channels to do so-the vast majority of NCAA Division I college basketball conferences once again punted on an opportunity for some […]
2015-16 SWAC Post-Mortem
The competition between Southern and Texas Southern for title of the best program in the Southwestern Athletic Conference continues to be hot, and that was only enhanced in 2015-16.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 15, 2016
It turns out people do appreciate the National Invitation Tournament after all, far more than universally assumed. All it took was a little postseason saturation-the same thing that college football somehow seems immune to.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 9, 2016
With all of the basketball history at Villanova, it’s hard to believe the Wildcats had never been the No. 1-ranked team in the country in the 67-year history of the Associated Press poll until yesterday.
