It was the second day of the new year, but also still bowl season, and a couple games went almost as long as a college football contest as Purdue and Minnesota went double overtime and UMKC and Seattle went even longer.
Tag: Missouri-Kansas City
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 29, 2019
We conclude a league-by-league look at the biggest surprises of the season’s first two months, plus a recap of Saturday’s action including Kentucky outlasting Louisville, Cal State Fullerton stuns UCLA and UC Riverside’s improbable comeback.
2018-19 WAC Post-Mortem
It was another very solid year for the unsung WAC, which continued its comeback with seven teams going to the postseason. One member still loomed large over the rest, though: New Mexico State.
The Morning Dish – Friday, December 28, 2018
Creighton mowed down Missouri-Kansas City in the only game in NCAA Division I Thursday night, but the Bluejays and their high-powered offense have work to do over the next few months to make the NCAA Tournament.
2017-18 WAC Post-Mortem
Quiet as it’s been kept amid constant questions of its future, the WAC has become a solid basketball conference, and that was especially the case this past season.
2016-17 WAC Post-Mortem
If ever there’s a league that deserves to gloat a little bit, it’s the Western Athletic Conference, the once-proud league that has struggled to survive in recent years but fought back with a very nice 2016-17 season.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 21, 2017
You can collect the votes right now, and probably don’t even need to count them, the choice is so obvious. In a stunning upset, the winner for the breakout performance by a conference (non-NCAA Tournament edition) goes to the Western Athletic Conference.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 13, 2016
It’s never too early to start picking up quality wins, even when you compete in a conference as tough as the Big East. And there’s no better attention-grabbing win at this time of the non-conference season than to knock off an undefeated team.
2015-16 WAC Post-Mortem
The WAC’s demise has been much-noted over the years, sometimes with almost a morbid glee, but the league is still playing basketball and actually had three very nice teams this year.
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.
