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Saturday, November 23, 2024
Good Tuesday morning. As the regular season is now just three days away, we continue Hoopville’s preseason rundown of all 32 NCAA Division I conferences: The Northeast Conference in recent years is annually one of the most balanced leagues in the country. This year there is a clear favorite, though, […]
One of the most anticipated possible conference tournament finals of all will not be taking place this year, as the first two days of March are two-for-two in producing the upsets we’ve come to expect this time of year. The latest team to come from seemingly nowhere to make noise is Hartford, a seemingly benign seventh seed in the America East tournament.
There is no substitute for double round-robin conference schedules where every team plays each other twice, home and away. For those of us who thoroughly enjoy and believe in the double round-robin format, the Atlantic Sun and Northeast Conference have been as good as it gets this year.
For the best-kept secret among conferences in college basketball this season, look no further than the Colonial Athletic Association, which also just so happens to be the league with the very best conference race this year.
Thursday night provided a flurry of activity, good games and most notable results, but few games this year have drawn us in more at the end like the Conference USA tilt between UAB and Old Dominion did.
Sacred Heart nearly had a big win in the Northeast Conference Tournament quarterfinals. That they instead dropped a tough one doesn’t change the strides they made, or the new challenge ahead.
With the final seconds ticking down on Wednesday night, Bryant was facing the possibility of another tough loss in the Northeast Conference Tournament. Then the aftermath of a missed shot happened.
Bryant was facing a tall order in the second half against Central Connecticut, with a lot on the line. When they needed to, they stayed together and rallied to get a win they really needed.
We’ve had days this college basketball season that have been marked by a high occurrence of one feat or another. This Saturday was one marked by one-point games and overtimes.
