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Thursday, December 26, 2024
A battle for second place was easily the best of the big TV games on the night, with the winning team getting a big boost from an emerging role player. Plus a mismatch in the Big 12, a clear leader in the Patriot League, and a Cyclone is done for the season and perhaps his college career.
At long last, every single Division I team has won a game this season, with the Delta Devils finally doing it on Monday night after a long road this season. Plus things go from bad to worse for one team, and one program is already making a coaching change.
The result of a big in-state rivalry is ripe for over-reacting on either side, and we look at how one might do that as well as how we should read the result. Plus another good win by a conference trying to bounce back, a Spartan gamely battles after tragedy, and a very rough start down south.
Monday night saw still more coaching changes due to firings, as well as a position still on hold at Nebraska. Also, Colorado advances in the NIT and Coastal Carolina drills West Virginia in CBI.
Continuing our look at every conference before the season, this Sunday we check in on the Patriot League, SEC, Southern, Southland and SWAC. Plus, more exhibition results including close shaves for Colorado, Detroit Mercy, Illinois State and Rider.
Good morning. With just two days remaining before the 2017-18 season commences (at last), we roll on with Hoopville’s preseason briefs on all 32 NCAA Division I conferences: The Mountain West’s slippage continued last year, as a once reliable multi-bid conference (many forget the league put five in the NCAA […]
North Carolina State winning at Duke surprised just about all of the college basketball world. It probably shouldn’t have. For the seemingly never-ending enigma that is N.C. State basketball, Monday night’s 84-82 win at Cameron Indoor Stadium was all too fitting. The Wolfpack have been making a living for years of […]
While college football again staged its light beer version of a national title game on Monday-and used an interminably long amount of time and an equally way-too-long list of cable channels to do so-the vast majority of NCAA Division I college basketball conferences once again punted on an opportunity for some […]
The competition between Southern and Texas Southern for title of the best program in the Southwestern Athletic Conference continues to be hot, and that was only enhanced in 2015-16.
Polls do matter. A case could be made that the All-America first team is already wrapped up right now. And it’s not at all hard to envision Oklahoma and Kansas playing two or three more times this year, including perhaps again in April.
