Monday reminded anyone who didn’t notice or remember that Leonard Hamilton can coach. Plus tragedy strikes in the junior college ranks, a star does something no player ever has on an eventful day, and the MEAC race just got a lot more interesting.
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The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 7, 2020
In the early going, the standings in one conference look very little like the preseason poll, especially with the lone undefeated team having a nice lead. Plus the Mountaineers win a slugfest, a Blue Devil is out for a while and another ACC player succumbs to a constant source of pain for the season.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 17, 2019
Tennessee may have a very different look, but the Volunteers appear to be in fine shape if Saturday’s result is any indication. Plus a nice road win for a mid-major favorite, and a few other interesting results on a day dominated by football.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Almost as infuriating on Monday as a deserving championship contender being kept from a real shot at a national title solely because of collusion is how so many networks covering college basketball continue to run away from a prime opportunity to do something different on that night.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 7, 2018
Conference play may be still just getting rolling, but we’ve had more than enough to talk about already, from highly ranked teams going down to upstarts making moves. Here is a potpourri of thoughts from another crazy Saturday-and we’ve just started January: Before Thursday, who ever would’ve thought that the […]
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 – Tuesday, December 27, 2016
One way to get an otherwise obscure game into the college basketball spotlight-at least relatively speaking in a time on the sport calendar when bowl games of even the most mediocre variety hold sway-is to be the only game on the schedule for an entire day.
2015-16 MEAC Post-Mortem
After a couple years of North Carolina Central serving as the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s meanest team on the block, the MEAC held considerably more suspense in 2015-16.
2013-14 MEAC Post-Mortem
The 2013-14 season was N.C. Central’s year in the MEAC, as the Eagles completed their four-year ascent to the top of conference.
Three coaching legends lose on the same day
It’s not every day that three of the greatest coaches ever lose a game on the same day. Yet that’s what happened on another Saturday full of noteworthy games, as Syracuse suffered its first loss on the season, Duke lost at home to put an end to a long home winning streak and Connecticut lost as well.