Saturday featured some rivalry games as well as big matchups that lived up to their billing, providing some great finishes.
Tag: NCAA
Saturday Notes – December 5, 2015
Although college football took center stage on Saturday, there was plenty of good action on the hardwood as well, and here are some thoughts from notable games on the day.
Was hiring Larry Brown really worth it for SMU?
Larry Brown has certainly made SMU relevant, and they have had success. Has it come at too great a cost in light of the NCAA coming down on the program?
College basketball’s NBA fixation on full display with proposed rule changes
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee formalized what had become ever-more obvious in recent years: that it is a sport with a serious man crush on the NBA.
Rule changes are no magic bullet for increasing scoring
Rule changes are almost certainly coming, and a big stated goal is increasing scoring since that is down. We should be wary of a belief that simply changing rules will have that effect, because there are other factors that play a role in that.
Scoring a Division I problem, not a college hoops problem
If one takes a wide view of college basketball as a whole and examines the numbers, there is only one conclusion to come to: scoring isn’t a college basketball problem. It’s a Division I college basketball problem.
Saturday Notes – January 10, 2015
Conference play is now in full swing, and on Saturday we saw a number of games tell us something about teams and conferences in the early going. In that respect, one conference appears to be standing out right now.
Saturday Notes – December 20, 2014
A busy Saturday is in the books, and we saw the matchups get better, the results continue to be noteworthy and tell us more, and a couple of the games needed a lot of extra time to decide.
Saturday Notes – December 13, 2014
A look back at a somewhat less busy Saturday, where overtime games seemed a bit more common and one team fell from the ranks of the undefeated in arguably the best game of the day.
Saturday Notes – December 6, 2014
We look back at quite a day of basketball, highlighted by early upsets and then some good matchups, plus a few sneaky-good wins for some teams on a busy day.
