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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
A few days after Eastern Washington and Portland State played a three-overtime game that ended with two players scoring 45 points each and EWU finally winning 130-124, Alabama and South Carolina did their best to wrestle the mantle away for wildest game of the season. On Tuesday, the Crimson Tide […]
It wouldn’t be a college basketball season without Belmont finding a way to make ripples with its excellence, and sure enough, the Bruins are at it again.
As the fourth season of the American Athletic Conference continues, one team emerges as the best. Plus a Musketeer may be hurt and a Boilermaker departs in addition to the game action on the day.
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.
Don’t we seem to write this same story every year for Michigan State? And, for that matter, Richmond too?
As conference play gets under way, some teams look like contenders and others like pretenders. Plus one conference saw some road wins, and a battered and bruised team goes to 2-0 in early conference play.
This morning, when they inevitably think again about the opportunity that got away last night, Minnesota players and coaches will have to remind themselves time and again: it was only one game.
There is hope once again at a school that has had a tough couple of decades, though we’ve heard that tune before. Plus a couple of SEC home losses and another hit to a Big Ten team that has taken a few during the first month and a half.
A long losing streak in a city rivalry comes to an end, and not a moment too soon. Plus another Spartan goes down and Kentucky catches a cold instead of something else.
Cincinnati won the battle against Iowa State Thursday night, and then the Bearcats went ahead and won the war too.
