The Sun Belt was one of the best-kept secrets of the college basketball season, with improved teams and an improving cache of star power leading to its best year collectively in more than a decade.
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Scanning the Nation: Notes from the first weekend of Jan. league play
It was a rather docile first full weekend of January, early in the conference portion of the college basketball season. Here are some quick hit notes from around the country, from A (Arizona) to…well, at least W (Western Illinois):
The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 8, 2017
The first Saturday of the new year brought us a rarity in college basketball during conference play: a day with few meaningful upsets of any kind. Nineteen nationally ranked teams played on Saturday. Eighteen of them won. The only one that didn’t (Virginia Tech) was playing on the road against […]
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 3, 2017
On the second day of 2017, a medium-weight college basketball schedule included quite a few games, though few of the high profile variety. Regardless of the stories developing early in some conferences (the Metro Atlantic and Southland being turned upside down, for example), it can’t be ignored that the biggest […]
2015-16 Sun Belt Post-Mortem
The Sun Belt Conference provided the biggest surprise of the 2015-16 college basketball season, as Arkansas-Little Rock rose from 13 wins to 30 under a first-year coach.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 24, 2016
George Washington’s experienced core of seniors Patricio Garino, Kevin Larsen and Joe McDonald has accomplished a lot in four years together, so adding another milestone to their careers and to the school’s history books is a fitting ending for the three.
Scanning the Nation Notebook: Atlantic 10, Wisconsin, Siena, Notre Dame & more
Looking around the country with our weekly notebook, checking in on the Atlantic 10, Wisconsin, Siena, Louisiana-Lafayette and others.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Monmouth has knocked off one college sports giant after another this year. Plus: Bo Ryan retires from Wisconsin.
The Morning Dish – Friday, December 4, 2015
Just over a week ago, UCLA was losing to Wake Forest in the Maui Invitational for its second loss in two days. Just under three weeks ago, the Bruins lost at home to Monmouth in their season opener. After last night, though, UCLA now holds one of the true trump cards that likely any team will hold all season.
A game a day for the 2015-16 season: December
Continuing our look at our favorite games for every day of the season, our ultimate dream road trip, if you will. We started on Monday with November, and today we continue with December.