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Monday, December 23, 2024
Good morning. With just two days remaining before the 2017-18 season commences (at last), we roll on with Hoopville’s preseason briefs on all 32 NCAA Division I conferences: The Mountain West’s slippage continued last year, as a once reliable multi-bid conference (many forget the league put five in the NCAA […]
Continuing a look at our favorite games for every day of the 2017-18 college basketball season. We started yesterday with November, and today we continue with December:
It doesn’t matter how realistic television sets get, or how much fun it might be to follow social media feeds during a sporting event. There is no substitution for being there. And never will be. With that, we present our ultimate road trip for the season if we could have one.
Of the many questions one can conjure up entering a season (Who’s the national title favorite? Why is Team XYZ only a 7 seed and not a 6 in someone’s preseason bracketology? How much more hideous can court designs get?), all of them take on a trivial quality this year, even more than they ever might have in the past.
If you only look at the preseason expectations of the ACC and the end results, then compare them, you miss the great journey that the conference provided in 2016-17.
We take a look at the pace of the entire ACC and reflect a bit on the overall subject matter and as it pertains to a number of ACC teams.
Ivy League play has begun in earnest, and we already have a couple of big games in league play. Plus one of a number of games slated for the big day has to move due to a water shortage.
Few teams are riding more of a roller coaster this year than Oklahoma State, but after their Monday night game at rival Oklahoma, it’s looking more and more like this season might turn out all right yet for the Cowboys.
In our latest podcast, we touch on a number of issues affecting conferences like Conference USA, as well as a big loss for Creighton, less mystery in Arizona, and more on the ACC as we look forward to the weekend.
Notre Dame is the only ACC team that is undefeated in conference play early on, and they have made it to this point with a lot of big plays late in games to pull out close ones.
