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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Part 6 of our year-by-year deep dives looking at the NCAA Tournament bubbles past brings us to the years 2010-14. The 68-team tourney arrives, TV commentators go ballistic about VCU’s selection in its Final Four year, and inspired picks in 2012 and 2013 are followed by a decided shift in committee philosophy the next year.
A special year for Boulevard rivals in Nashville is still going for Lipscomb, which in dramatic fashion clinched its first-ever trip to New York City for the NIT semifinals..
After a run of frustrating Selection Sundays, this year’s NCAA Tournament selection committee did much improved work, even as there is still more work to do.
On Selection Sunday morning, here are our one-time only projections of who will be in the field, who won’t, who should be, who shouldn’t and why.
Recapping the mass of conference tournament games Thursday, as well as the bubble winners and losers, a list that included mostly losers among those truly on the fence.
Marquette looked in control at Seton Hall before a stunning finish. The Pirates were the rare team to post a big win Wednesday while a number of others took head-scratching losses. Plus, Horizon, NEC and OVC tourneys rolling.
Some quick end-of-January notes from around the country looking at N.C. State, the battle atop the Big West, Tom Izzo’s transition game, Lipscomb, UAB, Saint Mary’s and our favorite name of the season.
Conference play is here in earnest now, and it couldn’t come soon enough. The ACC, Southern Conference and WCC offered some glimpses of where we’ll see it at its best over the next two months.
Jacksonville State played a quarterfinal game against North Texas in the College Basketball Invitational Wednesday night, but it could be easily forgiven if the Gamecocks’ minds were on other things this week. JSU’s campus in Alabama was hit hard by an EF-3 tornado Monday night, leaving widespread damage throughout. Among […]
Heaven knows there’s too much coach worship in college basketball, an art going back decades in the sport, well before the current best-known media sources. It’s hard not to get caught up in the work Chris Holtmann has done with Ohio State this year.
