Part 6 of our year-by-year deep dives looking at the NCAA Tournament bubbles past brings us to the years 2010-14. The 68-team tourney arrives, TV commentators go ballistic about VCU’s selection in its Final Four year, and inspired picks in 2012 and 2013 are followed by a decided shift in committee philosophy the next year.
Tag: Louisiana Tech
The Morning Dish – Friday, December 6, 2019
A big win for a program that has been quietly solid for a while is the latest sign that this could be a year where they break through for the postseason. Plus a comeback win down south, the Irish take a personnel hit, and there is at least some good news with a future three-game series.
2018-19 Conference USA Post-Mortem
Old Dominion won the regular season and tournament titles in Conference USA, which was actually an improved conference again but whose razor-thin difference between many squads mean it didn’t always show.
College Basketball Tonight – March 25, 2019
In the latest edition of College Basketball Tonight, we look back on the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. We also bring on a bracketologist to talk about how this field came together and bring in a head coach for some insights on the games and his program, then conclude with a look at coaching changes and the regional semifinals coming up.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Notes on the opening night of college basketball, which was essentially for diehards only after being buried by poor decision-making that set the season’s start date on…Election Night? The night did include a few upsets and some individual standouts amidst a mass of buy games.
2017-18 Conference USA Post-Mortem
Middle Tennessee State, Old Dominion and Marshall led a vastly improved Conference USA this year, one that yet again pulled a surprise in the NCAA Tournament.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Road wins are gold in college basketball, and Mississippi State and Michigan both had chances for major non-conference road wins Tuesday night. One of the two capitalized.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, November 23, 2017
Happy Thanksgiving. While the Battle 4 Atlantis has been one of the premier early season tourneys in recent years, this year’s event looked very top-loaded. Thursday proved otherwise.
A game a day for the 2017-18 season: December
Continuing a look at our favorite games for every day of the 2017-18 college basketball season. We started yesterday with November, and today we continue with December:
2016-17 Conference USA Post-Mortem
Middle Tennessee State followed up its stunning 2016 NCAA Tournament victory with a thoroughly dominant season, easily the class of Conference USA in 2016-17.