By its own lofty standards, the Big Ten has had a rather lousy basketball season. It’s hard to have much sympathy for a conference that practically prints money, but one supposes the league deserved a night like Thursday for its troubles this year.
Tag: Michigan
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 19, 2018
When Saint Mary’s suffered two disappointing losses in November at the Wooden Legacy tournament, the Gaels could’ve easily allowed it to affect their entire season. Rather than getting down, though, the Gaels just got to work at getting better.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Duke is nobody’s underdog in college basketball. And yet, when the Blue Devils have played Miami (Fla.) of late, they’ve come out on the losing end more than not, to the point where when they beat the Hurricanes it’s almost a-gasp-upset?
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Road wins are gold in college basketball, and Mississippi State and Michigan both had chances for major non-conference road wins Tuesday night. One of the two capitalized.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 21, 2017
With the ancient Great Alaska Shootout at its end with its 40th and final edition later this week, the Maui Invitational soon will move to a role in college basketball as not just the sport’s best in-season tournament, but also its oldest among eight-team tourneys.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Minnesota and Providence provided one of the best matchups of the young season, something we’ve come to expect from the Gavitt Games, which gets it right better than most conference challenge events.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 12, 2017
If Friday’s open of the college basketball season was a celebration (even if an unsatisfying one, with its smorgasbord of lousy guarantee games and non-Division I opponents), then Saturday must’ve been the hangover. At the least, the second day of the season is a reality check. It’s a reminder of not only how poorly college hoops starts its year, but also how a current attempt to address it gets it all wrong.
A game a day for the 2017-18 season: January
We roll on with a look at our favorite games for every day of the season, our ultimate dream road trip through an entire college basketball year, with a look at January.
2016-17 Big Ten Post-Mortem
Caleb Swanigan and Purdue’s backcourt answered major questions in resounding fashion in 2016-17, leading the Boilermakers to a Big Ten title.
The Morning Dish – Monday, March 20, 2017
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 […]
