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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
With a light day, as well as a relative lack of questions about this year’s bracket, it allowed some time to let this year’s NCAA Tournament bracket marinate a bit. And here’s a thought: this year’s tourney has a lot of really good first round matchups.
A long day of quarterfinal action in the Big East Tournament is in the books, and here are some notes from the day’s action.
There was still doubt even coming into Wednesday night, but you can say it now: Northwestern is going to the NCAA Tournament.
The road to the Big 12 regular season title goes through Kansas. Still. Again.
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.
It’s become obvious in recent years that the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee, commonly known by most as the selection committee for the sport’s tournament field, feels the need to regularly throw out trial balloons under the guise of making the event “better.” Even if those balloons are filled with lead.
We’re well past the turn of the new year now, settled firmly into conference play, and around-the-clock talk of bracketology and Joe Lunardi on ESPN 25 hours a day is just around the corner (in the rare case with that network, this is not a bad thing-there’s never enough of affable Joe in February and March). Here are some notes from around college basketball:
Three distinct events, all exceptional and special in their own way, led the college basketball schedule Tuesday. They were unique, poignant, just fun, or all of the above, and it’s impossible to feature mention one but not the others.
In its 34th year, the venerable Maui Invitational is college basketball’s premier in-season tournament, with its three days rightfully earning a reputation as some of the most anticipated of all of the non-conference season.
The toughness that helped Villanova win a national championship a year ago was on display for the country to see, just two games into the Wildcats’ defense of their title.
