First-year member Liberty and Lipscomb combined for one of the best two-team conference races in the country as the Atlantic Sun once again struck gold with another new addition.
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The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 27, 2018
We may not be in March just yet, but there’s no better notice that it’s just around the corner than the first college hoops conference tournament tipping off. The Atlantic Sun sat in the pole position for this season, the first of 32 tournaments to get underway Monday night already, nearly two weeks before Selection Sunday.
2016-17 Atlantic Sun Post-Mortem
The Atlantic Sun’s signature program, Florida Gulf Coast put together another stout year with regular season and tournament titles and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
2015-16 Atlantic Sun Post-Mortem
It would be hard to find a league that had a more suspenseful and more meaningful final day of its regular season than the Atlantic Sun Conference did this year.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 26, 2016
In a college basketball year that has been defined by unpredictability, we dare say that the host of downright thrilling conference races is a story developing late that is also becoming a signature mark of this season.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, February 21, 2016
There is no substitute for double round-robin conference schedules where every team plays each other twice, home and away. For those of us who thoroughly enjoy and believe in the double round-robin format, the Atlantic Sun and Northeast Conference have been as good as it gets this year.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 19, 2016
Is it possible Minnesota found a way to beat not just one team but two on Thursday? The Golden Gophers’ 68-63 triumph over Maryland will go down as one of the very biggest “how’d that happen?” results in a season that has had plenty of them, but did it also hurt Wisconsin?
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 12, 2016
Temple has been one of the more schizophrenic teams in the country this year that of late has been giving us a taste of just how good it can be when right. Thus, it was only fitting that the Owls’ game against Connecticut on Thursday was a microcosm of their season.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 2, 2016
This season, there are no surprises when a top-5 team goes down. Frankly, it’s also almost never a surprise when Louisville is the group defeating such a highly ranked squads. Still, the Cardinals’ 71-65 win over No. 2-ranked North Carolina on Monday was bigger than some and maybe most this year.
The Morning Dish – Saturday, January 16, 2016
An entertaining game is unfortunately followed by a very less-than-entertaining melee. Plus a home team takes over late in the Atlantic 10, cancer hits the basketball world again, and a Tiger’s career may be in jeopardy.
