Your Home For College Hoops
Monday, December 23, 2024
The first two NCAA Tournament bids went out on Saturday, and you can’t blame either coach if they got a little emotional. Plus a full day of tournament action, a coach gets the dreaded “vote of confidence”, and winning was especially hard for one team this year.
Where has the 2015-16 season gone? The presence of a leap year day yesterday did nothing to convince us that the past four months have absolutely flown by. If anything, it only enhanced that feeling, as conference postseason honors started trickling in at the same time that we started checking out the brackets for the first conference tournaments that kick in starting…today?
Our latest edition of Talking Hoops with Ted Sarandis looks at top teams continuing to go down, this time all at once, and a surging Atlantic Sun team ahead of another big weekend.
February can be over any day now. After all that happened on a deliciously eventful Wednesday night, we’re sufficiently primed and ready for March, and the best month on the sports calendar can’t get here soon enough.
On a day where few underdogs won, as opposed to the day before, the heroes were fitting named Valentine and Balentine. Plus a missed opportunity in Florida, a tie emerges out west, and a couple of wild games in the east.
As the season hits its stretch run, there will be numerous teams that see their NCAA Tournament chances slip away late in the year, sometimes in painful fashion. What we really want to see are teams who play their way into the tourney, or at least make us take notice based on their accomplishments late in the season. On that note, we introduce the Creighton Bluejays,
It’s not a surprise that Oklahoma had an off day shooting on Saturday, or even that it came against one of the bottom teams in the Big 12 in Kansas State. The surprise is that it has taken so long for the Sooners to have a loss due to cold shooting outside.
It was a full day of action, one that included two top teams going down in a rarity. Also, a number of other teams suffered a loss that could be a critical blow to their NCAA Tournament at-large hopes.
This season, there are no surprises when a top-5 team goes down. Frankly, it’s also almost never a surprise when Louisville is the group defeating such a highly ranked squads. Still, the Cardinals’ 71-65 win over No. 2-ranked North Carolina on Monday was bigger than some and maybe most this year.
It’s a new day at VCU, where there were some tough times early but good times now. Plus the smart kids are in full swing, a Gator may be out, and one coach doesn’t like an NBA focus in the television coverage.
