Neither Oakland nor Iona are likely to win the regular season championship in their respective conferences. It also should surprise just about no one if either or both are in the NCAA Tournament a month from now.
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The Morning Dish – Monday, February 1, 2016
A Pac-12 coach continues to remind us that he’s pretty good. Plus no surprises in one Midwest conference, a leader in another puts some distance between themselves and others, and an NBA star delivers a nice video after tragedy hits.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 29, 2016
North and south, east and west, there were high-level games and fantastic finishes last night. We’ve still got more than a month yet until we get to March-including a Leap Year day-but it felt like a snapshot from the greatest basketball month of the year.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 20, 2016
If there was any temptation to dismiss the NCAA Tournament chances of Georgetown, North Carolina State and UNLV, all three provided reasons Tuesday why you shouldn’t do that yet. The night was emblematic of this never-count-a-team-out season, as these perennial NCAA Tournament contenders earned unlikely victories.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Sad news was received by the college basketball world Tuesday as former Butler center Andrew Smith passed away after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 25 years old.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 31, 2015
Whether a team is contending for a conference championship or an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, there is never a bad time or place to win games on the road in conference play.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Coming into this season, it was natural and perfectly fair to wonder just how SMU would be affected by the postseason ban this year that was part of NCAA sanctions against the program this summer. The Mustangs are providing an authoritative answer so far.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 2, 2015
The heating up of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge was rightfully the main event heading into Tuesday night, but several incredible individual performances also became a story.
Scanning the nation: the best from November in college basketball
Reflecting on the first (half) month of the college basketball season, we look back at some of the bests, worsts, achievements and trends from November:
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 29, 2015
The 38th annual Great Alaska Shootout wrapped up Saturday night. The event is not what it used to be, and that’s too bad for Anchorage-and for college basketball.
