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Sunday, December 22, 2024
In our latest podcast, we look at off-court matters like a new name, image and likeness law as well as the first school to be punished by the NCAA coming out of the FBI investigation. Also, we look at a big loss for the Gators and some questions about the future of mid-major conferences, especially if they have a big geographic footprint.
First-year member Liberty and Lipscomb combined for one of the best two-team conference races in the country as the Atlantic Sun once again struck gold with another new addition.
The day after Selection Sunday was conspicuously light on news this year. It did include a few coaching changes, plus the first Division I postseason tournament tipping off with NJIT trying for another run in the College Insider tourney.
Steve Alford’s firing at UCLA was no surprise. That still doesn’t make it right in the middle of a season.
A long stretch of dominance in Philadelphia has come to an end. Plus double-doubles help a couple of teams win, a quiet 10-2 start, and a couple of key players will miss some important action
The Atlantic Sun’s signature program, Florida Gulf Coast put together another stout year with regular season and tournament titles and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
It would be hard to find a league that had a more suspenseful and more meaningful final day of its regular season than the Atlantic Sun Conference did this year.
NJIT fell behind early, but picked up a big win in the quarterfinals of the CIT and advance to the semifinals for the second straight year.
It’s regular for defending national champions to not go out easily in the NCAA Tournament, and one would expect that to be doubly true when that defending champion is Duke.
With the NCAA Tournament now on recess for a few days, the coaching merry-go-round is starting to spin again. Monday saw several vacancies filled, more created and rumors of still more to possibly come. The biggest moves both came in the Big 12, where TCU hired former Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon and Oklahoma State landed Stephen F. Austin’s Brad Underwood.
