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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Two days into the 2015 NCAA Tournament have felt kind of like trying to start up the family roadster after she’s been sitting idle in the garage for a couple years. It’s taking a little time to get the engine warmed up, but slowly it’s getting back up to speed.
Tuesday night was a moment New Jersey Institute of Technology awaited for 10 years. Unfortunately for the Highlanders, it didn’t last nearly as long as they hoped.
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.
If you haven’t seen any BYU games yet this year, you should. In fact, you should see as many of them as possible. The end of Kyle Collinsworth’s college career is near, and when it’s finished college basketball will lose one of the truly unique players it has had in many years.
As much as almost any teams in the country, Gonzaga and Saint Mary’s are programs both known for offense, but their latest meeting was one marked with defense.
The 38th annual Great Alaska Shootout wrapped up Saturday night. The event is not what it used to be, and that’s too bad for Anchorage-and for college basketball.
Championship Week leading up to the NCAA Tournament provides us all sorts of memorable moments, but almost every year we are reminded that sometimes it is at a cost.
We look back at a busy Saturday with a number of big matchups, many of which lived up to their billing and also had an impact on the top of the standings in conferences, plus a big accomplishment for one player.
With the college basketball season building up to its crescendo next month, we should be focusing on the teams and players and how well they’re playing. Instead, we’ve had a run of injuries and illness of late, and it continued on Saturday:
We are still barely past the halfway mark of this college basketball season, but there’s a question that probably should start getting pondered a little bit: Is Utah a Final Four contender?
