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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
For the second time in three days, a big-time matchup for a tournament championship was at least as good as advertised. Plus several more tournament final matchups are set, a concerning development in Nashville, and a first loss of the season in a blowout.
Texas picked up its marksmanship and got a career performance from Kerwin Roach in a signature win over North Carolina. Plus, Thanksgiving tourney action including Virginia & Wisconsin advancing at Atlantis, surprises by Fresno State and Hawaii and more.
Notes on the opening night of college basketball, which was essentially for diehards only after being buried by poor decision-making that set the season’s start date on…Election Night? The night did include a few upsets and some individual standouts amidst a mass of buy games.
Notes, numbers and factoids reviewing the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, including the 1985 retro feel of this year’s Final Four group.
As little order as there has been in college basketball this year, an NCAA Tournament Elite Eight that so far includes a 3 seed, two 9 seeds and an 11 seems strangely appropriate. A bizarre season and bizarre NCAA tourney became only moreso Thursday, as lower seeds won three of […]
With the first weekend in the books and the second one almost here, a look at a few notes is in order, from UMBC’s historic upset to Syracuse’s confounding zone defense and the inspiration of Sister Jean.
Sunday completed a first NCAA Tournament weekend that had plenty of history made, and it was as wild as we have come to expect from what has transpired thus far this season. Also, a big man is not conceding that his college career is over just yet.
History of the kind some of us never imagined occurring happened on Friday night. It was shocking in so many ways. Plus injury questions abound heading into the next round, while the next head coach at one school may have more headaches from the outset.
As Championship Week nears its climax on the big Saturday, we look at a pair of semifinals and a lot of bubble teams that may be sweating it out on Sunday.
As a big day of championship games beckons, bubble teams can’t breathe any easier. Plus another controversy with an ACC player and a couple of concerning injuries for bubble teams don’t help matters.
