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Sunday, December 22, 2024
The end of the 2015-16 season marked the end of an era in the Missouri Valley Conference, and that’s saying something in a 109-year old conference where names like Oscar Robertson, Larry Bird, Wes Unseld and Ed McCauley grace the list of former stars.
February can be over any day now. After all that happened on a deliciously eventful Wednesday night, we’re sufficiently primed and ready for March, and the best month on the sports calendar can’t get here soon enough.
It was a historic – and almost perfect – day for a 109-year-old conference, plus a coach is not happy with the NCAA and a light day of tournament action ahead of one full of championship games.
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.
The Missouri Valley Conference continues to claw out a spot just outside the top tier conferences in college basketball, and it did so again in 2014-15 with a noticeably improved product.
To some, Liberty is a sleeping giant program that been far more asleep than a giant since joining D-I almost 30 years ago. The school’s coaching history, though, has been…interesting? Quirky? Bizarre? Take your pick.
The thinking seems to be that the main motivation for St. John’s to be ready to hire Chris Mullin is that the school wants to follow the Fred Hoiberg model of hiring an alumnus who was a former NBA front office before making a splash as a college coach, but the Red Storm will get far more with Mullin.
The norm in March is that our spectacular finishes traditionally come in the NCAA Tournament. Maybe even conference tournaments. March Madness knows no boundaries, though, and while the National Invitation Tournament isn’t normally thought of as the home for of the amazing, on Wednesday it furnished what should go down […]
Officially, the NCAA Tournament begins Tuesday night with a pair of games, part of the “First Four” as it is known. Manhattan and Hampton square off first in a tussle between two 16 seeds, followed by Mississippi and BYU in a tilt of 11 seeds. Unofficially, these are still the games that a lot of brackets are going to let you slide on picking, in order to have a little more time to get your picks ready for your office pool or friendly competition with friends.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (March 7) – Sometimes, in order to fully appreciate a team’s season, one has to take a look at what was expected of them before it. In the case of Loyola (Ill.), if one would’ve told Rambler fans before the season that their team would win 19 games and advance to the semifinals of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, they would’ve been tickled pink.
