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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
On a busy day of conference tournament action, a regular season result is a big one for a preseason favorite. Plus a conference tournament roundup, more in the FBI investigation, and a coach is officially cleared of wrongdoing in a terrible accident.
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.
Bucknell continues to rule the Patriot League, and that doesn’t seem ready to change very soon.
Three distinct events, all exceptional and special in their own way, led the college basketball schedule Tuesday. They were unique, poignant, just fun, or all of the above, and it’s impossible to feature mention one but not the others.
Though the Patriot League slipped a bit in 2015-16, it was still as competitive as ever. The league tournament then had quite a bit of history made to cap it all off.
We’ve written a few times this year about Texas-Arlington and Arkansas-Little Rock, two of the most surprising teams in the country and squads that could be legitimate NCAA tourney at-large contenders in March based on their stellar non-conference performances. Alas, their first meeting of the season on Saturday was muted, and it wasn’t because of a snowstorm.
With Monday night being a mostly quiet one on the college basketball schedule, it left us a little more time to think of former Butler center Andrew Smith, as he enters yet another battle. Sad news in the college basketball world was shared Monday morning by Andrew Smith’s wife Sam, […]
Going into the 2015-16 season, we wanted to highlight what we see as the best game of the day, for every day of the regular season. The games we would go to every day, if we could.
The Patriot League remains in a good place, as it had a highly-competitive race as expected and should see more of the same next season as well.
The Patriot League’s first season with ten programs was a highly successful one, but there is plenty of reason to believe there are even better days right around the corner.
