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Sunday, December 22, 2024
Of the many questions one can conjure up entering a season (Who’s the national title favorite? Why is Team XYZ only a 7 seed and not a 6 in someone’s preseason bracketology? How much more hideous can court designs get?), all of them take on a trivial quality this year, even more than they ever might have in the past.
Welcome back to the Morning Dish for the 2017-18 season. With college basketball opening day just a week away, we begin quick looks at each conference entering the season, in alphabetical order:
The FBI has zeroed in on college basketball in a big way, and what has happened may be the beginning of a massive hit to the sport. We discuss what we know thus far in our latest podcast.
In our latest podcast, we talk about the NBA Draft, of course, but spend much more time on the happenings at Ohio State and Louisville and the implications starting next season.
Louisville light sanctions-and reaction to them-continues trends of big boy schools pushing the envelope, even when caught red-handed.
If you only look at the preseason expectations of the ACC and the end results, then compare them, you miss the great journey that the conference provided in 2016-17.
16 teams now remain in the NCAA Tournament, and chances are, there is at least one or two among them that you did not expect. And likewise, there is probably a team or two that you expected to be alive that is not. It was that kind of weekend. The […]
Dayton dealt another big blow to Rhode Island’s NCAA Tournament hopes and in devastating fashion. Plus road teams dominate the night, a Husky is suspended and a few Cardinals return.
Virginia put on another of its performances that is pure Virginia. Kansas put on another of its performances that is pure Kansas. Two of college basketball’s signature programs right now were in vintage form Monday night in winning what were easily the two marquee games of the evening, even if […]
The wild week in college basketball continues, with home teams ruling the roost quite often. Plus another team is fined for court storming, another Cardinal guard will be out of action, and a sad development with a former college coach.
